> Ok, laptop is in a sleep mode successfully. But doing anything to it or even looking at it funny will immediately wake it.
The XPS that I recently replaced had to be closed at night, which annoyed me every day. If left open, it would detect that it was idle and shut off the display. Except that that only worked on the laptop screen. The external monitor would go through a permanent cycle of shutting off, waking up, displaying a "no signal" message, shutting off, waking up...
This doesn't happen with other laptops on the same monitor. Something was broken pretty badly.
The XPS that I recently replaced had to be closed at night, which annoyed me every day. If left open, it would detect that it was idle and shut off the display. Except that that only worked on the laptop screen. The external monitor would go through a permanent cycle of shutting off, waking up, displaying a "no signal" message, shutting off, waking up...
This doesn't happen with other laptops on the same monitor. Something was broken pretty badly.