Black Screen

[Eagle710]

When I close the LCD on my laptop the screen is black and I cannot get anytthing to reappear. This seems to happen with all different laptops. I think it is a WinPE limitation any proof or ideas on why this happens?

[Tripredacus]

I have not seen any documentation to show that the PE supports suspend states or transitions.

[Eagle710]

Is this is a normal part of WinPE?

[Tripredacus]

Like I implied earlier, I do not think the Win PE supports suspend states. I was not able to make a booted PE 2.1 to go into S3. Also note that the Hiberfil.sys is not present in your image. You will find the powrprof.dll, but not the CPL to let you enable the suspend state.

If you have create a ramdisk PE, making the notebook go into an S3 state may be unwise, especially if there is not enough memory for the ramdisk, the PE and its memory load, and the data the notebook's BIOS attempts to load into memory. You may be able to use S5, but your hard drive would need to be formatted first.

Remember, Microsoft has gone at great lengths with this product, and it is not intended to be an operating system.

[Eagle710]

I know I was just wondering because I close the lid sometimes when things are running and am not sure if the setup is complete.