Laptop screen does not shut off when lid is closed

[Guest]

I have a Dell e1505 laptop with Vista RC1 on it, but when i close the lid of
my notebook my screen does not shut off like it used to. Does anyone know a
way to correct this or do i HAVE to make my computer go to sleep every time?

 

[Guest]

To fix that go into Control Panel > Mobile PC > Power Options > Change what
closing the lid does. From there select your options. That should work,
though since it's beta there's that 1/1000 chance it won't.

 

[AK]

I've bought Dell XPS M 1530 recently. Earlier with bios version A_05 my
notebook didnot detect wireless network if it became available while the
computer was already On. The computer had to be waking up or restarting in
the presence of network and then only it registered it.
The Dell technician downloaded the latest bios (version A_07) and the
wireless network problem got corrected.
But the new problem thats comeup now is that closing the lid doesnt put the
computer to sleep. I checked in the power options, thats correctly
configured. Even changed it to hibernate when i close lid. That doesnt work
either.

One more thing i must add - that it's not like my computer doesnt get to
know at all that the lid is closed. When i open the lid, everything is ON but
the mouse arrow behaves 'drunk' for a while before becoming normal. Can
someone help.

AK