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March 12th, 2013, 05:56 PM
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Waking from sleep..
Until today my Toshiba A70 laptop has re-awakened from sleep when I opened the lid after putting it to sleep by closing the lid. Now I need to hit the power button to wake it up.
I unchecked and rechecked the option to make the computer wake up when the lid is opened and that did nothing so then I went the full Monty and restored the whole drive from a week old image when the function was working properly.. but that made no difference.
I also checked in the bios but there are no settings there that have any relevance at all to this situation.
It seems it's a hardware problem but if the little lid microswitch works to put the computer to sleep, and it does when I close the lid, then you'd think it would work in reverse when I reopen the lid... but it doesn't.
Ideas?
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March 12th, 2013, 06:10 PM
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Did you try just pressing down the switch manually?
You could pop off the plastic cover and look at the switchboard too.
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March 12th, 2013, 06:59 PM
#3
I got tired of that and disabled hibernation. Satellite A505D.
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March 12th, 2013, 07:14 PM
#4
Yes, tried manually pressing the switch.. no difference..
Not hibernation.. sleep (hibernation is disabled)
I was trying to avoid taking things apart . I may try contact cleaner first.
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March 12th, 2013, 07:32 PM
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How about the "Hybrid Sleep" setting? Is it enabled?
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March 12th, 2013, 07:46 PM
#6
I would pop the cover off before I used any chemicals. It could just be misalignment. It sounds like the button is getting stuck coming up.
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March 12th, 2013, 07:48 PM
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It's XP pro so there isn't any hybrid option. Should've mentioned that before.
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March 12th, 2013, 07:50 PM
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Yeah, I guess I'll have to take it apart. I was avoiding it but I'll have to bite the bullet and do some operating.
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March 12th, 2013, 07:53 PM
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Pretty sure you just need a small flathead screwdriver to pop off the button cover.
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March 12th, 2013, 08:06 PM
#10
Is the battery running low when it happens.
My Dell lappy does the same thing from time to time and I think it happens only when the battery is low.
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March 12th, 2013, 08:24 PM
#11
Battery is fully charged.
The little microswitch is fully enclosed inside the laptop chassis. It's just a tiny rubber extension that protrudes through the laptop's plastic interior cover so it would take a significant effort to expose the whole deal for examination.
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March 12th, 2013, 08:33 PM
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The button cover should just be the strip across the top, plus the hinge covers. There might be a screw holding it down underneath, but it's pretty easy to pop off.
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March 12th, 2013, 08:49 PM
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I'll have a closer look tomorrow in the daylight.
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March 12th, 2013, 08:59 PM
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Like I mentioned, just a flathead. You only need to do Step 6-7.
http://www.irisvista.com/tech/laptop...5/satA75_1.htm
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March 13th, 2013, 07:14 AM
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Thanks for the graphics.. looks pretty straight forward. I'll have a go later.
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