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post #21 of 56
6/7/06 at 9:49am
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Originally Posted by jeffcmfrt
Mine turns off.I have mine set to do nothing I have the 01 bios and i done a clean instal of my os. But with the Dell drivers when I do close the lid when I reopen it the icons are displaced. I have expeirmented and the icon issue is drivers. Unfortunatly I instaled the newly released Dell drivers and the same it displaces the icons. has anyone with the light staying on tried to reinstal the Dell quickset?
This definitely tells me that it is probably the driver that is causing the issue. In modding the inf lv2g must not have been able (or didn't think about it) to get it to turn off the LCD. I know it's not a design flaw, it's supposed to do it. I've tried reinstalling quickset and playing with the settings; it hasn't helped.

The biggest thing is, I'm fairly confident that it would fix the problem if I'd go to the Dell drivers, but is there no other driver that does it? I have a new quest for today.
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post #22 of 56
6/7/06 at 6:08pm
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Originally Posted by mZimm
This definitely tells me that it is probably the driver that is causing the issue. In modding the inf lv2g must not have been able (or didn't think about it) to get it to turn off the LCD. I know it's not a design flaw, it's supposed to do it. I've tried reinstalling quickset and playing with the settings; it hasn't helped.

The biggest thing is, I'm fairly confident that it would fix the problem if I'd go to the Dell drivers, but is there no other driver that does it? I have a new quest for today.
cool, please let us know how that experiment turns out.
I always have one of the following problems: or the screen doesn't turn itself off when you close the lid, or it goes off but when i open the lid again, it has changed it's resolution to a very low one and back to the standard resolution. That means that all my icons are moved to the right top side of the screen and all my open windows are resized to very small windows.

Dell drivers: resolution change
laptop2go drivers: screen doesn't go off
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post #23 of 56
6/7/06 at 6:58pm
Well, this is definitely 100% an issue directly related to the drivers. I've used the laptopvideo2go drivers for a while; and as soon as I switched to the Dell drivers from their website the LCD turned off as it should. I also tried the 91.28 drivers from tweaksrus, but they have the same problem as the lv2g ones.

I'm currently downloading some more drivers and will report back on my findings tonight. I might PM GFT and let him know of the issue with the Xtreme G drivers and see if there is any way to fix it. I also might see if I can find out if it's an .inf issue, or something else. If it is simply something in the .inf, it can be fixed no problem.
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post #24 of 56
6/7/06 at 7:05pm
well i have the xtreme g drivers 84.56 and my lcd dun turn off when lid is closed.
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post #25 of 56
6/7/06 at 7:16pm
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Originally Posted by nvgear
well i have the xtreme g drivers 84.56 and my lcd dun turn off when lid is closed.
yeah, but have your windows been resised and your icons been messed up ?
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post #26 of 56
6/7/06 at 10:24pm
84.21's my windows doesnt resize and when i close the lid all goes off
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post #27 of 56
6/7/06 at 10:55pm
I'm using v81.87 from lv2go with none of these issues. i9300, BTW.
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post #28 of 56
6/8/06 at 12:30am
It appears to be a problem with the 90 series drivers. I have tried all of the 90 series from lv2g, omega, and the Xtreme G drivers. So far the Dell one is the only one that the LCD turns off with. I'll try going back to the older ones tomorrow and see what I can find.
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post #29 of 56
6/8/06 at 2:05am
Neither one of the 87 series drivers from lv2g are working either. Can anybody tell me the newest driver that has been reported to work properly?
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post #30 of 56
6/8/06 at 3:11am
Sometime I just run the latest desktop G-force/TNT drivers from nvidias site. The latest 84.21 turns the display out & does not displace the icons when reopening the lid. Both the Dell drivers turn out the Display on mine but both also displace the icons.
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post #31 of 56
6/8/06 at 3:15am
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Originally Posted by odious_m
I'm using v81.87 from lv2go with none of these issues. i9300, BTW.
Okay, but this only seems to be the problem with the M1710, so if you have another model it's normal that you don't have those issues..
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post #32 of 56
6/8/06 at 3:17am
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Originally Posted by jeffcmfrt
Sometime I just run the latest desktop G-force/TNT drivers from nvidias site. The latest 84.21 turns the display out & does not displace the icons when reopening the lid.
I can't get those drivers to work on my M1710, i get an error that my hardware isn't supported when i try to install them.
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post #33 of 56
6/8/06 at 3:22am
Zim is right this is driver specific. Dell has customized the drivers in a manner to power off the lcd when the latch engages.

Look in here
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Video\

There will be a {GUID} key that has 0000 and 0001 folder with a + next to it. Click on the 0000 key.

For the Dell drivers there is a value called;
"LidBehavior"=dword:00000011

For the Tweakrus drivers this value does not exist.

I have tried adding it manually and it does not work. There is something inside the driver that understands the dword then calls winmm.dll to power off the LCD.
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post #34 of 56
6/8/06 at 4:19am
I have this same problem with my E1705. I reinstalled the system, and the light won't go off when I close the lid. Apparently, we have discovered it is driver related. I am running lv2g 84.56. Will try 84.21? as someone mentioned it worked.

Ideally, I would like it so that if the laptop was on AC power just the monitor would turn off when I shut the lid--and when it was on battery, it would go into standby.
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post #35 of 56
6/8/06 at 5:16am
Hmmm, I have the same issue of course, and I think it is kind of odd that Dell made this a driver run operation. On the plus side though, now that snooz has narrowed it down to the specific registry key, this should be able to be fixed. I think GFT should be able to come up with something for the XG drivers
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post #36 of 56
6/8/06 at 5:19am
coool, can you please update this thread once a fixed driver is released so we can all download it = ) !!!! THANKS!
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post #37 of 56
6/8/06 at 11:54am
Thanks for your work snooz. That's too bad to hear that it didn't fix the driver though.

The nvidia drivers from their website don't work for me either, so I don't know how you are getting them to work jeff.

I also had this problem with my XPS M170 I might add.

Also, I have tested 7 drivers so far and the only ones I could get to work were the stock Dell ones. I'm not done yet, but it's still rather depressing.
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post #38 of 56
6/9/06 at 3:28am
Any more info on this? Should I just use the Dell drivers?
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post #39 of 56
6/9/06 at 10:29am
I've got the same problem with my 9300 while running vista beta .
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post #40 of 56
6/10/06 at 2:03am

LCD power down

Well i just got my m1710 a few days ago and i closed the lid and the lcd powered off after 1 sec. I went to power options and chose do nothing for the close lip option. it seems to be working for me. Since this is still stock if there is anyway i can help let me know.
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