Jesusfrk611
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I have a Gateway MC7800. It's always had this problem where it will decide itself if it wants to dim or brighten the screen on its own. I liked my HP laptop that dimmed when I wanted it to or when I unplugged the power cable, and brightened when I plugged it back in. Sometimes this will work right, and sometimes I'll be using the laptop when out of the blue the screen dims when I'm typing something while it's plugged in to the power cable. Usually it will dim when I unplug it, but doesn't seem to like to brighten when I plug it back in. I have messed with the power settings in Windows 7 a couple times and it seems to want to change the settings on me sometimes. This is not an OS issue though because it's dual booting with Ubuntu and it does the exact same thing...
On a side note, only when in Windows 7, when I leave the laptop in sleep mode every time I have a USB mouse plugged in and I unplug it before I take it out of sleep it restarts the laptop. Doesn't do that in Ubuntu and I don't recall ever having that issue in a previous install of Windows.
Thoughts on either? Might do an OS reinstall soon because there's other issues with Windows, but I know that won't fix the backlight issue.
On a side note, only when in Windows 7, when I leave the laptop in sleep mode every time I have a USB mouse plugged in and I unplug it before I take it out of sleep it restarts the laptop. Doesn't do that in Ubuntu and I don't recall ever having that issue in a previous install of Windows.
Thoughts on either? Might do an OS reinstall soon because there's other issues with Windows, but I know that won't fix the backlight issue.