MBP no sleep when lid closed in Boot camp

[winwintoo]

I have a 15" MBP and loaded BootCamp/Windows XP Home - I need it for work.

This morning I had Windows running while at my boss's office and when I got ready to come home, I closed the lid - as I have always done with iBooks and PowerBooks for many years - thinking it would go to sleep.

When I got home an hour later, the MBP was blistering hot and had shut itself down.

I tried booting it and it booted ok, but it said there was not Airport hardware installed - HUH?

I cooled it down and re-booted and everything seems to work now, but this could be a warning to others - make sure your MBP is really going to sleep if you close the lid while in BootCamp.

Take care, Margaret

 

[ilkevinli]

This is a known issue win WinXP running on the MBP.

I have a 15" MBP and loaded BootCamp/Windows XP Home - I need it for work.

This morning I had Windows running while at my boss's office and when I got ready to come home, I closed the lid - as I have always done with iBooks and PowerBooks for many years - thinking it would go to sleep.

When I got home an hour later, the MBP was blistering hot and had shut itself down.

I tried booting it and it booted ok, but it said there was not Airport hardware installed - HUH?

I cooled it down and re-booted and everything seems to work now, but this could be a warning to others - make sure your MBP is really going to sleep if you close the lid while in BootCamp.

Take care, Margaret

 

[winwintoo]

This is a known issue win WinXP running on the MBP.

Ah! It wasn't known to me - I guess I should have done more research - You would think that Apple would put that in the install docs or put an FAQ sheet in there or something.

Live and learn.

Take care, Margaret

 

[Felldownthewell]

Mine sleeps on XP but only half the time I close the lid. Sometimes it works sometimes it dosen't... However, I only use XP for games when I am plugged into the wall and never need to make it sleep, so it dosen't matter for me...

 

[Mojo67821]

I put my 15mbp to sleep in XP today. It worked, and stayed cool, but when you boot back up it takes you to the windows logon screen where I had to click on my username (which is stupid because I"m the only user on there). It then took a good 20 seconds to get back into the OS... seems like a restart to me. I love that when in OSX I open it back up and am ready to go in under 3 seconds.