Acer Swift 3 laptop SF314-512 keyboard backlit

[tenstin34]

Hi!

I have request related to the following Acer Swift 3 laptop: SF314-512

This model comes with backlit keyboard. When you turn on the laptop, the keyboard backlit is ON by default (you can  be disable the light temporarily using the Fn + F11 shortcut but the setting does not persist after a reboot, it always boots with backlit on).

Keyboard illumination is useful in dark rooms but in most of the situations users do not need keyboard lights to be on when typing, and with the silver keyboard and lights on it is difficult to read keyboard keys in light room due to the low contrast between letters and silver colour of keys.

In the BIOS there is an option to control the keyboard backlit but it only has 2 options:

- you can set the backlit to be On all the time
- or you can set this option to backlit timeout, so after some time it will turn off but as soon as you start typing the keyboard turns back on automatically

Is it possible to modify this BIOS so that it starts with backlit OFF by default? Or add the BIOS option to turn off backlit? or so that it does remember last Fn + F11 shortcut status?



Would you be so kind to look into this and try to modify this BIOS? (Unfortunately I don't have sufficient knowledge to do that by myself)


The latest BIOS version (v 1.14) is available here: https://www.acer.com/us-en/support/produ.../downloads


https://global-download.acer.com/GDFiles...ER&SC=PA_6


(I hope I posted this thread in the right category)

[Dudu2002]

Hi
I think this can be done using a utility from the manufacturer

[tenstin34]

Thanks for your reply.

Can you provide more info? Do you have it or know where it can be downloaded from?

[Dudu2002]

Thanks for your reply.

Can you provide more info? Do you have it or know where it can be downloaded from?

Use the serial number of the laptop and search on the manufacturer's website

[tenstin34]

Thanks for your reply.

Can you provide more info? Do you have it or know where it can be downloaded from?

Use the serial number of the laptop and search on the manufacturer's website

I did check the website, the list of all software for this model is available here https://www.acer.com/us-en/support/produ.../downloads  , but could not find any utility to modify the bios

any ideas how to tackle this problem? anyone?

[Dudu2002]

Thanks for your reply.

Can you provide more info? Do you have it or know where it can be downloaded from?

Use the serial number of the laptop and search on the manufacturer's website

I did check the website, the list of all software for this model is available here https://www.acer.com/us-en/support/produ.../downloads  , but could not find any utility to modify the bios

any ideas how to tackle this problem? anyone?

no need to change bios, search in the application section

[tenstin34]

Thanks for your reply.

Can you provide more info? Do you have it or know where it can be downloaded from?

Use the serial number of the laptop and search on the manufacturer's website

I did check the website, the list of all software for this model is available here https://www.acer.com/us-en/support/produ.../downloads  , but could not find any utility to modify the bios

any ideas how to tackle this problem? anyone?

no need to change bios, search in the application section

I have not seen any application that allows this, if you have found one, let me know.


anyone knows how to modify BIOS for this laptop to solve my problem?