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On 12 Jan 1998 13:58:18 -0500, David N. Blank-Edelman wrote: >Howdy- > It's interesting that this topic should come up because a few months > ago I asked the tech who works for me about the exact same > thing. Here's a paraphrase of what he told me: > > Under lower light conditions, especially, the refresh of a LCD is > more noticeable (there is less visual noise). This combines with > small drops in amperage (from anything happening on the machine) which > can cause an almost imperceptible dimming of the screen. The drop in > amperage comes from a battery's ability to supply only so much (and > even when charging, most laptops pull current pass through their > battery). The two events happening together cause this very common > phenomenon. > > Hope this helps (make you feel better at least). I would guess any > severe flickering you see would be cause for a trip to the shop. I think this sounds like a very logical explanation to me, being very much on the technical side. -- Paul =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Paul Khoury pkhoury@loop.com =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Proudly using OS/2 Warp 3 & 4 Donate your idle CPU time to a needy cause. Join Team Warped and help to crack RC5-64! Check out http://www.ionet.net/~colin/rc5.html for more information. The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.029 There are 32 Processes with 102 Threads. This machine's uptime is 0d 23h 40m 0s 31ms.