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    Laptop off when closed?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by weinerschizel, May 3, 2007.

  1. weinerschizel

    weinerschizel Newbie

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    I recently bought a monitor for use with my laptop. I want to close the lid on the laptop and JUST use the monitor as apposed to using both of them.

    However, I have a problem. whenever I close the lid on my laptop it turns off. How do I keep it from turning off when the lid (screen) is closed?

    There doesn't seem to be a dummy switch I can override on this anywhere I can see like on the older laptops. I have a HP dv2120us media center laptop.

    Thanks
     
    weinerschizel, May 3, 2007
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  2. adinu

    adinu I pwn teh n00bs.

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    Go to control panel, power options, advanced and select for what to do when closing lid to nothing.

    /done.
     
    adinu, May 3, 2007
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  3. Evolution

    Evolution Vox Sola

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    Go into control panel inside windows and go to power options then once in there look for the options that are currently set for notebook lid close behavior. I suspect yours is either currently set to either hibernate or standby. You will want to change this to do nothing when you close the lid that way nothing will the notebook will do nothing when you close the lid

    Hope this helps you...
     
    Evolution, May 3, 2007
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  4. weinerschizel

    weinerschizel Newbie

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    sweet... thanks!
     
    weinerschizel, May 3, 2007
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