My brightness is stuck at 0% and my brightness key isn't working. What do I do?

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My brightness is stuck at 0% and my brightness key isn't working. What do I do?

I was trying to get the light under the keyboard dimmed down but held down the screen brightness key by accident, dimming my screen down to 0%. The problem is my F2 button doesn't work due to me getting a little water in it while I was trying to clean the keyboard awhile ago. Now my screen is stuck at 0% with no brightness key. I tried plugging in another keyboard but that didn't work. Restarting doesn't work either since it just reboots to 0% brightness. I'm stuck in a pretty serious pickle, if you guys could help me out that would be awesome. Thank you.

MacBook Pro, Windows 7

Posted on Mar 7, 2013 7:18 PM

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Answer 1

Mar 7, 2013 7:22 PM in response to iperrytnk

Hi iperrytnk,

Go into System Preferences, and select the Display. In that option you will see a manual slide bar for moving the brightness up or down.

Hope this helps!

Cheers,

GB

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iperrytnk Author

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Mar 7, 2013 7:27 PM in response to gail from maine

Hey Gail,

Thanks for the quick reply. Unfortunately since my screen is stuck at 0% I can't find my way to system preferences. Also I'm having this problem under my bootcamp so I'm using windows 7. I'm on the Mac part of my hard drive to post this question.

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Answer 3

Mar 7, 2013 8:06 PM in response to iperrytnk

Hi iperrytnk,

I've been looking around to see if there was anything else you could do to remedy this, but just not seeing any other alternatives.

Since the F2 key is messed up anyway, have you tried slightly lifting it, or joggling it, or even taking it off to see if you can get the key to respond in even the smallest way? If you could just get one click up, you'd be able to go to Preferences and fix it that way

I'm guessing a trip to the Apple Store is in order no matter what....

Sorry I couldn't find any way for you to get out of the dark here....😟

Good luck, and if anything miraculous happens, let me know!!!

Cheers,

GB

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iperrytnk Author

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Mar 7, 2013 8:39 PM in response to gail from maine

Yeah I've been pretty overdue for an apple store trip to get this key fixed. I appreciate your help Gail thanks for taking the time to try and get my problem fixed.

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Answer 5

Mar 7, 2013 8:43 PM in response to iperrytnk

You are most welcome! Hope it gets sorted quickly for you! And sorry for your troubles!

Thanks for the points!

GB 😀

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Answer 6

Apr 28, 2017 8:56 PM in response to iperrytnk

With out going to the Apple store the only way to fix the is to factory restore all the settings by holding option-R when you restart it and using the system restore option

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Answer 7

Apr 29, 2017 8:42 PM in response to dudeyourdead

Undoubtedly you did not notice that the post was from 2013. I'm fairly certain the OP has gotten the issue resolved by now....

Cheers 🙂

GB

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