hya ppl im new here .. ihave a problem with my laptop advent 7082 it wont turn of when i close lid i recently added a external hardrive .when i close lid it just says preparing to standby but that is as far as it gets i then have to hold down the power button to turn of .. i have looked at the power options and made sure it is set to portibale/laptop . i took it to pc world and the guy said to erase the cache memory never done that dont know how but there must be another simple answer any help will be apprieciated .... chibber

Hi chibber

and Welcome at GSFs

When you didn't change any energy saving setting of your operating system, your notebook does, what it shall do regards to the settings. That means "Standby-modus".

Let me check some more details for you. Will be back to you later today, kay?

Greetz
B. Udo