inspiron 8000 display stays on when lid closes?

[Conroy9]

I ordered Windows ME with my dell laptop and installed a windows 2000 dualboot on it myself.

When I boot into WinME, the LCD shuts off when i close the lid.. when i boot into win2k, it stays on all the time

Does anyone know how to get it to shut off in windows 2000? i think there must be some driver that i didn't know about that manages this?
(I'm sure someone else has installed win2k on their laptop - do you notice the same thing?)

I'm also sure dell won't help me because i installed 2k myself.

i don't want to use up the life of the LCD unnecessarily

Conroy

 

[corkyg]

It can also create a lot of unwanted head directly over the CPU.

In most notebooks, what happens when you shut the lid is normally found in the unit's BIOS.

I find it sort of an academic question at best . . . I either leave the lid open or turn off the computer.

 

[Conroy9]

i shut the lid when i'm using an external monitor - it's sort of a pain to have to remember to manually shut off the lcd every time, and i just shouldn't have to do that, even though i can

people are way too tolerant of their computers, i think

i looked in the bios - but if it was there, winME behavior would not be different from Win2000 behavior.

 

[SpeedTrap]

if you go into display properties and select power management it should let you choose turn off lcd when lid closed and such

 

[Conroy9]

sigh
the options there are "None", "Standby", and "Power Off"

the options are the same in ME, except the lcd turns off when it's set to "None"