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Why wont my laptop wake up by opening the screen anymore?

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When i first got my laptop i could simply put the screen down and my computer would fall asleep. when i would come back to and lift the screen up it would start up at the log in screen. Now when i close the screen and open it back up my computer starts but the screen stay back until I hard restart my whole computer.
 

Chintan Gohel

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When i first got my laptop i could simply put the screen down and my computer would fall asleep. when i would come back to and lift the screen up it would start up at the log in screen. Now when i close the screen and open it back up my computer starts but the screen stay back until I hard restart my whole computer.

by hard reset you mean a full wipe and reinstall? That's what a hard reset does:

Check in this : http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-performance/how-to-set-the-laptop-to-wake-up-when-opening-the/8c3d1898-1b36-4566-84a1-d14be77057ba

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