Laptop shuts off when stacking on identical laptop

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I am a high school student, and all students are issued Acer TravelMate P249 Laptops. If my laptop is open, and I pick it up and put it on top of another identical laptop, it just hibernates. In Middle school, we were issued Acer Chromebooks, and they did the same thing. Why?

Andrew Schaefer

Posted 2018-02-16T12:57:14.010

Reputation: 83

Answers

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Wild guess, magnets in the lid tell it when it's closed.

Placing another identical machine in line above will likely trigger the sensors in the same way.

Potential fix is stack each one the other way round, 180° horizontally, or just don't stack them.

Tetsujin

Posted 2018-02-16T12:57:14.010

Reputation: 22 456

I just wanted to answer the same. or set "do nothing" when the lid is closed:) – Máté Juhász – 2018-02-16T13:00:31.640

If it has a 'do nothing' option; but that's going to lead long-term to lots of flat batteries ;) – Tetsujin – 2018-02-16T13:01:19.570

I never even thought of that, wow. I will try that at school today. Thanks! – Andrew Schaefer – 2018-02-16T13:01:38.870

1180° may not work, it depends how sensitive they are. – Tetsujin – 2018-02-16T13:02:11.887

the do nothing will also still turn off the screen. (and can confirm. Freaked out when I thought my laptop was dead. Picked it up and it magically started working. Took me a few times to realize...) – Blaine – 2018-02-18T14:24:36.813

1should be easy to test - just put a magnet near the lid and/or front of the PC and see what happens. – Journeyman Geek – 2018-02-19T00:55:39.790

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