Re: Colour settings

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osmodia wrote:

Thanks for your reply,
What I mean by losing the settings is that I usually find that the
gamma, colours and brightness have gone completely out on starting. I
have to go into the control panel and fiddle with the display
properties>settings to get things back to normal (I do click "apply").
If I leave the pc connected to the mains and just shutdown with
windows then no probs, however, if I unplug after shutdown and leave
for , say 48 hours if we go away for the weekend then i'm back to the
the control panel to reset! I still think it could be battery, but
then the settings should be simply stored on disc??

The motherboard battery does not remember your color settings. Those are
within the operating system. It certainly won't hurt to replace the
motherboard battery, though. It's an easy and very cheap job (under
$5USD) so why not do it. I don't see how it's going to make a
difference, but if it does - cool.

Malke
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