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I just unpacked my new Sony Vaio, with windows 8 pro installed. Everything is nice, so I tried setting my power management options. The "When I close the lid" option only list:
- Hibernate
- Sleep
- Shutdown
The "Do nothing" option is not present.
I've seen loads of stuff on google where people ask or explain how to set this option to "Do nothing", but in all my power plans this option is absent...
Can I use a tool to prevent this, or is there a way to force windows to show me this option (and that it actually works)?
UPDATE powercf /q guid gives me this output:
Subgroup GUID: 4f971e89-eebd-4455-a8de-9e59040e7347 (Power buttons and lid)
GUID Alias: SUB_BUTTONS
Power Setting GUID: 5ca83367-6e45-459f-a27b-476b1d01c936 (Lid close action)
GUID Alias: LIDACTION
Possible Setting Index: 000
Possible Setting Friendly Name: Sleep
Possible Setting Index: 001
Possible Setting Friendly Name: Hibernate
Possible Setting Index: 002
Possible Setting Friendly Name: Shut down
Current AC Power Setting Index: 0x00000000
Current DC Power Setting Index: 0x00000000
Other sections have different enumerations where 000 stands for No action
1I've even tried to override the settings using gpedit.msc, but that doesn't work. – Jaap – 2013-06-18T18:58:23.770
Try
powercfg -attributes SUB_BUTTONS LIDACTION -ATTRIB_HIDE
from an elevated command prompt, reboot and check. Also see if there are any driver and especially BIOS updates available. – Karan – 2013-06-18T19:58:07.883That doesn't work unfortunately, please see the updated output – Jaap – 2013-06-21T12:22:56.007
Googling around a bit, it seems other SONY vaio's seem to have this issue. I wonder what Sony is doing, if it's some kind of deliberate thing they're doing before shipping... – MDT Guy – 2013-06-21T14:10:03.623
@Jaap: Is there any Sony proprietary power-management software running or any Sony provided power schemes active? If so try disabling it, restart and check. Also check if there is a UEFI/BIOS update available for the laptop. Also go into your UEFI/BIOS options, look through all power and especially ACPI related settings and try toggling them. (Don't worry, nothing bad will happen and you can always revert to defaults or to the original settings if you've noted them down.) This certainly seems to be an ACPI related problem, and if it's at the firmware level then obviously only Sony can fix it. – Karan – 2013-06-21T16:09:50.703