Ok, so here is the back story,
My son (bless his psychopathic little heart) was using my laptop and managed to break the power jack requiring a trip to the repair shop.
New part installed computer back home, power management settings all messed up.
After a couple of days of chasing that particular wild goose up and down the rabbit hole, I’ve gotten all the odd behaviors(some involving stuff never encounterd before on this machine) ironed out except one. Before I took it to the shop, when I closed the lid my puter would go to sleep and instantly wake when opened. Now, inspite of having all the power settings set to sleep, it hibernates when I close the lid and I have to push the power button to wake it up.
I’ve chased this thing through a file integrity scan of some sort that was done in command prompt, I’ve riffled through the eula/eufa,hoffa phoenix bios interface (whatever the dammed thing is called) miss my oldfashion bios, this phoenix crap, meh its a turkey…I digress, I’ve fiddled with the power plan settings, spent at least 4 hours in total searching the intertubes for a solution, to no avail.
So, here I am. I come to you, the Doper Computer Geniuos Wizards, please, is there a solution to my problem? How do I get my computer to wake on opening the lid like it used to?
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yeah there is a magnetic sensor in the screen bezel. but it goes to sleep when I close okay, actually too well, as it goes into hibernate when its only sposed to sleep. so I think that’s working ok. That line of inquiry is what makes me think its a hidden setting/software problem.
damn computer shop, {incoherent beard mumbling}used car dealers {grumble mutter mumble}
I can’t imagine any reason that replacing the power connector would change any settings in Windows, unless someone was fiddling around for an unrelated purpose. [Some shops might try to be helpful by installing Windows and driver updates - when I get a computer in for repair, I always ask if the user wants anything touched other than the parts needing repair.]
Lid behavior is one of the things that is often an OEM extension, and if a generic Windows driver was installed to “update” a Samsung one, I could see this sort of thing happening. Since you say that lots of other stuff was changed or stopped working, you might be better off asking the repair shop exactly what they did. Wouldn’t hurt to run an antivirus / antimalware scan either, just in case.
I took a quick look on the Samsung site and none of the drivers jumped out at me. They’re all from 2011, so some “helpful” repair person may have replaced them with newer generic ones. Of the bunch, the only 2 possibilities I see are the HECI or the chipset drivers.
In “vanilla” Windows 7, in Start / Control / Power Options / Change Plan Settings / Advanced, I’d look at Sleep / Hybrid Sleep and Sleep / Allow Wake Timers and in Power Buttons and Lid, look at all of the settings in there.
In the BIOS, look for a page with things like “Allow S3 sleep”, copy down the current values of all of the settings on that page, and try changing anything that looks relevant. Many BIOS menus have a help key to tell you at least a little about what each item does. Keep your copy of the old settings handy, as you may need them to get back to a working computer.
Other than that, I’d suggest seeing if either Samsung can help you (might need to pay to get to a level of tech that can actually be helpful) or a laptop forum site with a section devoted to Samsung products.
ah, yes, I do recall seeing that setting in the bios, didn’t know what it was so left it alone(cuz im smart enough, now, to not mess with some of the unknown) when you start talking drivers, my puter skills and knowledge are just enough to glaze over my eyes, so if I think its going to be a driver, erm, well, damn, I guess I will just live with it.
Anyway, thanks for the tip about the s setting in bios (which I was partly correct, they misspelled Hoffa turkey as eufi phoenix:D)