ibook going to sleep

Paul C

Paul C

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When ever I close my ibook it goes to sleep, I was to stop it from doing this so that I can attach a monitor, keyboard and mouse and leave it powered up but closed. Can this be done? :(
 
Laptops going to sleep when being shut has been a standard Apple feature for a long time. Unfortunately from what I know you can't stop this.

The only thing I can suggest is to put something like a sponge between the lid and the base and close it as much as you can; if you want to save battery power just turn the brightness down, etc.

Hope this helps :)
 
Well, that's pretty dumb...that's a bug, not a feature IMO...it should disable that when an external monitor is connected...
 
When ever I close my ibook it goes to sleep, I was to stop it from doing this so that I can attach a monitor, keyboard and mouse and leave it powered up but closed. Can this be done?
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It does this to keep/save the screen from getting damaged. If the ibook is 'running at full speed' it emits heat and this can seriously warp and damage your TFT display. I've heard from one guy at this forum which let run his ibook closed in firewire target mode (where the sleep mode is absent) for serveral days. After this the TFT display was damaged to the point where he couldn't recognize anything on the screen.
 
You could connect the external devices, then still put it to sleep via the Finder when needed without closing the lid. I don't see why you'd want to keep it running all of the time when it's not in use anyway.
 
Because you have to reconnect your devices sometimes if not all the time after the Firewire bus has been restarted.
 
Or you can use the firmware modification AppleScript from heise.de: http://heise.de/ct/ftp/result.xhtml?url=/ct/ftp/listings.shtml&words=iBookScreenEnhancer

the word iBookScreenEnhancer in red shows you which file to download. The AppleScript enables the two-monitor mode for the iBook, so you can actually USE that second monitor as main monitor and the internal as a secondary.

Have to make sure your iBook has a Radeon 7500 inside, though. yours is fine, though, as it's the same as mine.
 
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