Laptop problem

[Alan T]

I encountered few times of a problem when I closed the lid but could not get
the screen turn on.

When I was travelling on a train working with my laptop, I need to close
the lid when someone to get off the train.
Then I opened the lid but the screen was turn off, the powere was still on.
No matter I pressed the space bar, enter key, power button...etc, the screen
was still dard.

Any idea how do I get the screen back in this situation?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I encountered few times of a problem when I closed the lid but
could not get the screen turn on.

When I was travelling on a train working with my laptop, I need to
close the lid when someone to get off the train.
Then I opened the lid but the screen was turn off, the powere was
still on. No matter I pressed the space bar, enter key, power
button...etc, the screen was still dard.

Any idea how do I get the screen back in this situation?

Change the way the computer reacts when you close the laptop in situations
like that.

 

[Russ SBITS.Biz [SBS-MVP]]

Probably it's trying to go sleep
The good news is that Win7 does a better job at sleep
Set your PC to either Shutdown on lid close
or Hibernate.
Russ

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[Alan T]

I am using Windows 7.
Any way to do what you said?

 

[Russ SBITS.Biz [SBS-MVP]]

It should be ok
Check your Power settings
What are they?
It could be your video card causing issues..
However I've heard that after an Update
(SOME) PC's won't sleep anymore

So make sure you aren't sleeping on the close lid
Russ

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[Bob I]

Click the "windows button" and put "power" in the box, and click the
"power options" link. For Windows 7 questions you should ask the folks
in the Windows 7 forums.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/help/community

 

[Alan T]

Thanks.

I just wonder where the 'Sleep' button on a laptop?
What is the differences between sleep and hibernate?

 

[Bob I]

What ever the mechanism you choose. could be the power button, could be
the lid.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=difference+sleep+vs+hibernate+xp&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=

 

[Tim Slattery]

Thanks.

I just wonder where the 'Sleep' button on a laptop?
What is the differences between sleep and hibernate?

There may not be a "Sleep" hardware button. Or there may be one that
you can configure.

On my laptop I can tell it to either sleep or hibernate when I close
the lid.

"Sleep" means that the computer turns off the screen, powers down the
hard drive, and does whatever else it can to save energy without
actually shutting down. In particular, power is kept flowing to RAM so
nothing is forgotten. When the machine wakes up, it just has to
restore power to the bits that were shut down, which can be done quite
quickly.

Hibernating involves writing the contents of RAM and CPU registers and
whatever else is needed to a disk file and then shutting down. When
Windows boots, the first thing it does is look for this file. If it
finds it, it reads it and restores that session. If it doesn't exist,
then the OS boots from scratch.