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    D600 locks up when lid closed

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by dman535, Oct 8, 2007.

  1. dman535

    dman535 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I am finding that when I shut the lid on my D600. I have to hold the power button down - and force a power off. Then restart the whole machine. The XP setting is telling it to do nothing when the lid is closed. Any ideas ?
     
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  2. Commander Wolf

    Commander Wolf can i haz broadwell?

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    Control Panel > Power Options > Advanced; there should be a setting telling XP what to do when you shut your lid...
     
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    Yes. That is said to do nothing. When you open the lid up, there is no response from the machine. Power light is on - keyboard unresponsive.

    Derek.-
     
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    Oh, sorry I misunderstood the problem: try a different graphics driver, I had a similar problem using certain NVIDIA ForceWare drivers under Vista - the machine itself coming out of sleep mode but the screen not coming on. How long has this been going on?
     
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    The machine has been acting flakey for a few weeks. Starting to get Windows errors that a device driver or a program are causing a problem. I figure its time to probably whipe the system and reload the OS.

    D.-
     
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