Laptop Turns on when lid is closed and sleeps when the lid is open

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Laptop Turns on when lid is closed and sleeps when the lid is open

I am having a problem with my laptop. I usually close the lid to put it to sleep but recently (Since swapping out the optical drive and putting a new hard drive in) when I close the lid the laptop will fall asleep than wake up. I can hear the disc spinning and the laptop becomes hot. Also whenI open the lid in this state the computer will revert back to sleeping and will not wake up.

How can I fix this? The only thing I have attached via blue tooth or hardware are headphones and the charger.

MacBook Pro, Model A1226

Posted on Sep 29, 2013 11:56 AM

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Answer 1

dominic23

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Sep 29, 2013 12:31 PM in response to mvanosdol

Reset SMC. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

Choose the method for:

"Resetting SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own".

Best.

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mvanosdol Author

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Oct 2, 2013 6:22 PM in response to dominic23

I tried both the remove the battery (I have a pre 2008 laptop) and don't remove the battery options and neither worked.

I held the apple key to see which hard drive is booting and I have 5 discs (I should only have 3) disc four and five are 'restored discs.' Could this have something to do with it?

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mvanosdol Author

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Oct 2, 2013 6:48 PM in response to mvanosdol

I tried resetting my NVRAM / PRAM as well as my SMC. I tried this:

"if the computer still doesn't sleep when you close the lid:

you could try booting to the install disk. while booted to the install disk, try closing the lid. if you close the lid, and the computer dose not sleep, you know it's a hardware issue. If the computer dose sleep, then you know it's an OS issue. "

And the computer stayed on during this process so I believe it is a hardware issue. Does anyone have any suggestions on what to try next?

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