laptop wakes from sleep while lid down killing battery thro the ni

[Guest]

I bought an alienware laptop a month or so ago and it came preloaded with
vista home basic

up until a couple of days ago when the lid of the laptop was shut it would
go to sleep but for some reason this no longer happens. The pc keeps running,
the fan whirs all night and the battery eventually dies as it thinks the
laptop is still in use.

I have no peripherals such as mouse or any usb thingies attached and all
fixes ive found relate to these kinds of things. None of the network things
are set up to wake machine from sleep either.

Im no longer technology savvie so I havent a clue what the finer details of
this machine are. I went thro device manager and looked for upgraded drivers
for everything but everything is up to date according to windows.

No new software has been loaded.

Anyone got any ideas how i can fix this in wording especially for idiots?

 

[Michael]

If you manualy put it to sleep, does that work or what is result?

click on start globe
move cursor to right triangle at bottom right of pop up window
click on sleep

Michael

 

[Guest]

hi - its no different if i manually put it to sleep either. As soon as the
lid is down it starts up again.

 

[Michael]

But did it go to sleep and stay there with the lid open?

Michael

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Check for recently installed Windows Updates. One of them may be causing a
problem for your machine.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

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