How do I calibrate monitor brightness?

I have been trying to re-calibrate my monitor. I set contrast control to its highest setting - no problem - but I can't calibrate brightness because the square is totally black - no lighter coloured oval visible at all, no matter where I move the slider to, and no difference in the shades round the oval - just totally black.

I, too, am having trouble with the monitor. It is very dim. I tried the above mentioned process but nothing changed. One day it was bright and the next time I opened the lid, dim. I have to strain to see the words I'm typing now. Any help is appreciated.

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I reduced the brightness to the lowest setting on my keyboard, but it is still bright.
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Absolutely no need to apologize.
It was well worth the relatively trivial expense and effort to confirm that what I had been using was in fact adequate for the job.
Sorry if you thought I may have been having a dig at you. Nothing could be further from the truth. My comments regarding my unsatisfactory experience were only made for the benefit of others who might be thinking about a similar upgrade and to give them some incentive to check alternatives before taking the plunge. I should have made that clear right at the start.
One invaluable thing I learned, by watching a number videos about the profiling exercise with the i1 Profiler s/w, was that your previous advice regarding lower monitor brightness levels being unlikely to affect profiling accuracy was absolutely correct. The videos, several of them from X-Rite itself, made it very plain that it is perfectly OK to choose a Max Lum as low as 80 cd/sqm if that suits your individual taste and/or ambient lighting environment. That confirmation alone was more than worth the expense of the upgrade to the i1 Display Pro. Anyway, there's a very good chance that the i1 Display Pro will be suitable for the task when I come to upgrade my monitor - which, I fear, will not be in the too far distant future.
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Was not using the ADC setting for the critical calibration/profiling comparisons, although I did initially try it out and, like you, was not happy with the results.
Disk space footprint was never anywhere near a show stopper - just a matter of interest really. Funny how s/w just keeps getting bigger and bigger and often with no significant improvement in functionality.
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Unable to match monitor brightness and prints when printing from lightroom.

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Welcome to Lenovo Forum! DaemonDriver, your name somehow caught my attention
Understand that it seems there is problem with the brightness hotkey even with the latest hotkey driver v3.02. To further the investigation, may i know
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