[vox-tech] Insomniac laptop (was Hard drive dying?)

[Chanoch (Ken) Bloom]

On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 08:54 -0800, Wes Hardaker wrote:
> >>>>> On Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:32:16 -0800, Bill Kendrick <nbs at sonic.net> said:
> 
> BK> Yes, this laptop has the habit of heating up, esp. when it's closed.
> BK> (i.e., I'm not even interacting with it!)
> 
> They're really not designed to run with the lid closed (ever).
> 
> I actually had a co-worker that shut their lid and thought it slept and
> put it into their backpack and walked around for an hour.  It was
> "blazing hot" when they pulled it out and amazingly didn't have any
> problems.

I unfortunately have such an insomniac laptop. I think that it's likely
that the lid button is too sensitive to bumps, and would like to know if
there's a way to work around this in software. (e.g. if the computer
wakes up to find that the lid button is closed, put the computer back to
sleep automatically.)

Any tips?

--Ken

-- 
Ken (Chanoch) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/

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