Now you have to try to find 2 keys in the dark to turn on the backlight. Worse yet, you can have those functions like the backlight key set to act as F5 by default and to only activate the backlight if you press Fn + F5 at the same time. So if it's dark, you have to fumble around and start pressing keys until you manage to find the F5 key. Now, my current HP laptop let's you turn on and off the backlight but F5 (the backlight key) does not stay on. That way you could actually see the backlight key to turn it on again. It had one nice feature in that if you turned the backlight off one single key would stay lit - F5. I had one HP where pressing F5 would turn on or off the backlighting. I finally found a Dell utility that allowed you to adjust it but that same utility did a lot of other things and introduced some other unwanted behaviors. I had a Dell where the behavior was the same - 10 seconds on and then it would go off. Let us know if you find any such options in the BIOS.īack to the topic of the backlit keyboard.ĭon't know why, but the design of backlighting for keyboards in general seems to really suck. Note: If you select Never, the backlight remains on which could quickly drain the notebook battery power. Press the spacebar to open the keyboard backlight settings, and then select the timeout setting you want. In the Built-in Device Options, select Backlit keyboard timeout. Navigate to Built-in Device Options, and then press Enter. When the BIOS opens, use the arrow keys to navigate to the Advanced tab.

Restart the notebook, and then immediately press the F10 repeatedly until the BIOS opens. Your BIOS version and screens might vary. Check your notebook model's product support documentation to confirm support. Note: If there is not a setting for the backlight timing in the BIOS, this behavior might not be supported on the notebook. If the blacklight stays on for only a few seconds, the backlight timeout setting might need configuring in the BIOS. However, I did find this in the HP knowledge base: I've looked at the user guide for your laptop and it only tells you how to turn on and off the backlight but makes no mention of a timeout.

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