Toshiba laptop contrast problem?

I have a Toshiba i5 laptop and the contrast keeps going completely bonkers for seemingly no reason. I don't do anything extreme on my computer, I don't game or even use a music player, I just have firefox open all the time... and all of a sudden the contrast freaks out and everything is super bright and halo-ee and obnoxious. 
I tried doing the color calibration thing and it got to the contrast calibrator and said to use the contrast adjustment buttons on my screen to make the picture look a certain way. Well that'd be helpful if such contrast buttons existed. 
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Any help/advice would be superb. It's really getting irritating...
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Post your full model and operating system so we are not guessing. But i would start with uninstalling and reinstalling the video driver.
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