G530 4446-A11 Win7 Brightness Adjustment -Unsolved Problem-

[gizsin]

This is a way what is I know. But it's not pratic, we want a real solve.

[ibid01]

I had similar problem with windows 7 x64 on T4446 , I could not adjust brightness for a few month. . But fortunately today  I found Intel had its own Graphics Media Accelarator Driver for windows 7 that does the trick, no hotkey though.   Here is the link to intel's driver:

http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=19132&lang=eng

cheers.

[wboolvic]

I have a G530 Type 4446 which had a dodgy version of Vista because a techy at my daughters school loaded Business over Home Premium ... no!!  After trawling the Lenovo site I was convinced that the machine would take W7.  Alas I got the hotkey problem whereby the Fn F10 and Fn F11 keys were non-functional.  Rang Lenovo tech support and was told a number of stories, all pointing to the view that the machine was designed for Vista.  I trawled some more and came across this: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-70994

As a very helpful Lenovo techy had already tried all of the possible energy management drivers I decided to give it a go.  I was a little reluctant to play with the BIOS but I kept it on mains power, closed all other programs and ran the app.

Presto!  Brightness hotkeys now work.  As for the sleep and network hotkeys - well, I can live without them.

Pleased to be of help to all you other G530-4446 W7 users.  Let me know if it works for you.

[wboolvic]

Addendum to above post:

W7 32-bit

Have just tried the link in above post and it is dead!  You need to update the BIOS from v 1.09 to v 1.10.  It is somewhere on the Lenovo site.  The file is called  6get19ww.exe

[Cleo_Lenovo Administrator]

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gizsin wrote:

This is a way what is I know. But it's not pratic, we want a real solve.

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Hi gizsin,

If your G530 is Type 4446, you may want to use this bios 6get19ww.exe at support page.

For your reference: G530 4446 screen resolution is not the native 1280x800 - fix released

Hope this helps.

Regards,

Cleo

[craiggerz]

How has there not been a fix for older machines g530 machines? This is insane, good luck trying to get me to buy another lenovo laptop.