Mine does that sometimes too. Are you running Win7 or Vista? I have to hold the power button until it shuts down and then reboot it.
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I'm not sure which it is (probably hibernate) but sometimes if my laptop is unplugged and closed, when I reopen it I cannot get it to wake up no matter what I try. The light above end/numlk and Caps Lock just flash every 5 seconds or so, sliding the power thing doesn't work, fn+f5 doesn't work, ctrl+alt+del doesn't work, I've tried probably every button combination you can imagine and nothing will wake it up, so I always have to hard-shutdown.
Also yes, I plug it in before I try to turn it on, so it's not a battery problem.
Mine does that sometimes too. Are you running Win7 or Vista? I have to hold the power button until it shuts down and then reboot it.
David
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Vista Ultimate 64-bit
That's what I do too, very frustrating if I have something running or unsaved for some reason.
If its a MS office document, you should be able to recover most of what was lost. Not the solution to the problem but something to ease the frustration in the mean time.
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If you go into your power settings in control panel and then Advanced settings, you may see that your laptop is set to go from Sleep to Hibernate after a certain period of time when you close the lid.
I have disabled ever going into Hibernate because it takes longer, much longer, to come out of hibernation that it would have taken to do a complete boot had I shut the system down. So now, when I close the lid, it just goes to sleep and wakes up right away when I reopen the lid. I would advise though, to save / close your programs when putting it in sleep mode if you are walking around or moving/driving with the PC in sleep. Hibernate saves your data before going into that state. Sleep doesn't.
I drive around all day in a sales job and close my lid to put my tx2 in sleep state. The laptop wakes up right away when I need to do a demo of my business applications.
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