[W3J] How do I power on with closed lid?

Hi, first of all, love my Asus W3J. After owning a Toshiba (also good), and Dell (average), I did loads of research and Asus seemed great, and the laptop met my expectations (they were high expectations).

Anyway, I've searched for about an our in these forums, and nothing came up.

Just wondering if it's possible to switch the laptop on without having to open the lid. I connect my laptop to an external monitor, and it's more an inconvenience than anything else, so it's not important, but if it can be done, would help and I'd do it.

Also, matters even less, any possible way of remapping or adding extra shortcuts to the "switch monitor" function (normally fn-f8 I think).

Thanks!

 

I don't think it's possible to turn it on with the lid closed... there appears to be some sort of mechanism to prevent accidental pressing of the power button when the lid is closed, so I don't think you can change that.

 

I also had the same problem. Solved it by keeping the laptop running ALL DAY!

 

Just a silly question: Why not using both the laptop screen and the external monitor (one of them as "desktop extension" in windows or an equivalent)? I won't say it doubles the screen real estate, but anyway it's a significant improvement.

 

im not sure if you can turn it on with the lid closed, but you can certainly change it so that when you close the lid "nothing happens", instead of going to standby. Just go to the power settings.

 

But I'm running with screen disabled and lid slightly open to decrease heat, I would not run it with lid closed for a long periods of time.

 

Do not run with the lid fully closed. It where some of the heat from the powerful parts come out from. There have been a couple of times where I shutdown, close the lid without checking to see if it has really shutdown properly. I come back to find that one of the programs requires termination before shutdown can being. The result - A hot keyboard & Palm rests!!!

 

The keyboard is an area that the internals actually withdraw air from to help ventilate the notebook.

 

Yes the laptop breathes through the keyboard so keeping it closed for long periods of time could cause it to overheat.

to do this anyway though you would have to wire a power button outside the lcd lid.

 

All you need to do is open the scerrn about one inch then press the power button then close the lid, and (as long as you havent set your laptop to hibernate or suspend when you close the lid), it will continue to boot as normal.

I do that sometimes, open slightly push power, close lid and come back afetr I have set things up and open and login.

But as others mentioned I would run a program like Mobilmeter to monitor internal temperatures to see if the HDD and CPU run higher than normal CPU temp should oscillate between 53 & 58 deg C, normal use, hdd runs between 40-50deg C.

Just give it a go and see what happens.

 

heh i've left it on overnight for dowloads..and the temperatures were the same as nzwaverider posted the next morning

 

Thanks for the replies.

Yeah, I guess I can leave it open. If it does give it better airflow, then maybe I should've done it in the first place. Kills 2 birds with one stone, no need to open/close every time I switch it on (well...I do pretty much leave it on the whole time anyway, sometimes Vista shuts down for no reason though - rare). And will make sure the settings are to CRT only (ie, laptop screen off).

NZwaverider, yeah, that's what I've been doing normally (opening an inch, then switch on, then close lid). It's no hassle, just wondered if there was a way round it. Got an error with mobilemeter (maybe some Vista incompatibilities, failed to read ACPI or something like that error). Anyway, temperatures generally seem ok, the fan never goes full blast, and I've never had a case of overheating.