Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2001 20:34:02 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: 70CT shuts down closing lid? More problems?
>From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Follow the bios to 'Panel power on-off = disabled'. This kills the screen >but doesn't stop the machine when the lid is closed. You might only get >this if you're in hibernation mode. > >Neil Neil and Raymond, I thought was just having problems understanding, or remembering how the system works. But I just remembered something and have begun to suspect that something else is going on. My whole problem with the system powering down with closing the lid started a couple nights ago. When it happened I remembered that I'd recently had the same problem with my sister's full size Toshiba notebook when I closed the lid after we'd gotten a PowerPoint presentation set up, and the system hooked to a projector. That system just shut down IMMEDIATELY when I closed the lid. There was no writing RAM to HDD first it seemed... the HDD motor pretty much whirred to a stop pretty quickly. Then there was no recovery from hibernation when it was powered it up... and we had to log in to her Win2000 and set things up all over again. I THOUGHT this was the problem I was having with this 70CT. But I realized something else that makes me think that perhaps the problem is more related to the recently discovered smashed case corner... the dead LCD, and the subsequent fuse fix. I don't recall if I'd tried closing the 70CT lid with the system running before the other night or not. And like a dummy, I didn't try doing it a few more times immediately. Instead I found what I thought fixed the problem in the 'power saver' by setting hibernation mode. After I set that, I closed the lid and the system stayed on. But just last night, after setting the hibernation mode, I closed the lid to save the monitor (I tend to flip the lid closed when I go away and leave the system running with the reasoning that I'm saving the LCD life... the thinking that started all this recently), and then just picked it up again slowly to see how far up it would go before the lid switch kicked in the monitor. Instead of turning on the monitor, the system did a hard shut down! This with a bunch of programs running, MusicMatch idling, Word, IE, WinMX downloading etc.. Running scandisk after rebooting found and fixed all kinds of problems. So it seems there's something else buggy about the system, maybe because of that little dent in the back left corner by the replicator screw holes. That's right about where that lid switch is located... but I can't think what connection there may be there. But now, after reading a bit more, and understanding more about the hibernation mode, suspend mode, resume, and standby (these terms are still a bit dizzying), and testing them more... I find that 99.99% of the time I close the lid in the default 'boot mode' set in 'power saver' as it was set originally, it does not shut the system down. I've only had that problem twice. The first time was a day after I first got the fuse fixed and was using the system in 'boot mode'. And the second time last night with the 'hibernation mode' setting. Oh... and another thing. That 'Panel power on-off=disabled' BIOS setting you mentioned Neil, IS IN FACT only there in BIOS with hibernation mode set in 'power saver'. For a while there I was certain I was suffering from ADD if I couldn't have found that setting in the 3-4 times I went into BIOS looking for such a setting. A windows utility resetting BIOS... interesting! But now I wonder if there's some relationship to my problems and the behavior of my sister's notebook. Matt _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
