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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.

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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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    I got tired of that and disabled hibernation. Satellite A505D.

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    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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    How about the "Hybrid Sleep" setting? Is it enabled?

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    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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    It's XP pro so there isn't any hybrid option. Should've mentioned that before.

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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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    Pretty sure you just need a small flathead screwdriver to pop off the button cover.

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    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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    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.

    Attachment 11181

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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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    I'll have a closer look tomorrow in the daylight.

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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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    Thanks for the graphics.. looks pretty straight forward. I'll have a go later.

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