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My MacBook Pro is on the lowest brightness in windows. The screen is completely black. Plugging in the charger doesn’t change it. The brightness keys don’t work. Tried changing it by guessing where the buttons are on the screen. Nothing is changing. Please help.
Windows, Windows 10
No, I didn't have the right search term since I was searching for drivers, since that's what I thought they were going to be called. I first went here: https://support.apple.com/downloads/bootcamp-drivers but the newest driver said support was for 7 and windows 8.1, so then i went to a file that ran in cmd and slowly downloaded them, which is what I saw on a forum elsewhere to find the drivers. It didn't work which is annoying.
NVRAM and SMC reset didn't change it; the brightness keys still don't do anything, and the screen still doesn't boot up; the windows logo shows up when it loads everything, but then when i go to the sign-in screen it's black.
Assuming you are the only user of the Windows installation, the screen should default to a Password screen. Can you type your password on the black screen and press Return/Enter and test if you are able to log in?
For Security, you can disconnect physically from all networks. If you have a Wireless connection enabled, you can turn off your Wireless access point temporarily.
Yes I can log in when it boots. I also remembered a likely important factor that I did a couple days before; I reset windows, but keeping files. I remember it removed the bootcamp drivers and i tried multiple times to reinstall them with no luck. There was a program that automatically installed the bootcamp drivers for your specific MacBook, but both times I did it, it only created a folder and nothing inside. This probably has something to do with the brightness keys not working; sorry. Is it still fixable?
Update; it fixed itself at random? The computer just an hour ago was on default booting into macOS, but then it loaded in on windows, and said “your computer didn’t load properly”, the screen where it’s all blue and you choose to do startup repair, go to command prompt, reset the computer, etc. I don’t think that screen has a setting for brightness though. I went to the restore point it made when I reset it, and it’s back to full brightness. The brightness, keyboard light , etc function keys still don’t work though, so I’ll go to that link and try that and see if windows realises the function keys exist afterwards.
Run a SMC and NVRAM Reset and test. If that does not work, you may need to boot into Safe Mode and try to adjust brightness.
Try BC Assistant -> Action -> Download for the W10 drivers for your specific model.
Nice!
Bootcamp brightness lowest, cant see screen
