Anonymous Posted on Feb 21, 2010

My Dell latitude d500 won't recover from standby mode (i.e. after shutting the lid).

Anonymous Feb 21, 2010

Hi Daffydavid,
I wiped the harddrive clean and reinstalled windows XP pro Sp3. I did not have any driver recovery cd or anything else, so I searched the Dell site for drivers on audio, video and network adaptors. With trial-and-error I got the system back online, except for the suspend functionallity.
So, to be short: no new hardware, just an other version of Windows Xp and self-searched and installed drivers...
Hope you can help me.
Cheers,
Mathieu
Daffydavid May 11, 2010

have you insatlled new software or hardware?

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The little button on the laptop pushes down when you close the lid and is probably stuck down. Open the laptop and look at the area near the hinges foe a tiny gray pop up button. If it is stuck down you will need to try pulling it up with tweezers. Mine is above the power button on a D800. Here is your manual ! http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/latd500/

Let me know how you make out!

Good luck Phil [email protected]

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