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My laptop (a Lenovo Thinkpad W530 running Windows 7) regularly wakes from a sleep state in my bag, draining battery and overheating badly (even when I make a point to leave the fans unobstructed by its sleeve, and adjust power settings to automatically return it to sleep after a short interval). Inputting "powercfg -lastwake" in the terminal informs me that the wake is due to the the lid being opened. I assume this means that there's a problem with the lid's magnet sensor, but I'd rather not open up the casing and tinker with that. Is there any software solution for requiring a press of the power button to wake the computer from sleep / disabling the automatic wake on lid "opening"?
(Notes: I've tried going into the Device Manager to tinker with the lid but don't see any power management options; nor do I see options in the Power Management menus. Hibernation doesn't work reliably on my system, I don't want to have to do a full shutdown every time I change locations, and I like the convenience of triggering sleep with a lid-close. I dualboot Linux Mint but I'm using Microsoft OneNote for my dissertation research, so a Windows solution would be preferable.)
Can you disable the lid switch in BIOS? I have a feeling that this is something you won't be able to do... – Kinnectus – 2014-07-08T22:32:42.583
Hibernation does not work reliably on most windows systems... Did either the answer or the comment solve your problem? – Cand3r – 2016-02-05T14:45:53.917