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I am a high school student, and all students are issued Acer TravelMate P249 Laptops. If my laptop is open, and I pick it up and put it on top of another identical laptop, it just hibernates. In Middle school, we were issued Acer Chromebooks, and they did the same thing. Why?

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Wild guess, magnets in the lid tell it when it's closed.

Placing another identical machine in line above will likely trigger the sensors in the same way.

Potential fix is stack each one the other way round, 180° horizontally, or just don't stack them.

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  • I just wanted to answer the same. or set "do nothing" when the lid is closed:)
    – Máté Juhász
    Commented Feb 16, 2018 at 13:00
  • If it has a 'do nothing' option; but that's going to lead long-term to lots of flat batteries ;)
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Feb 16, 2018 at 13:01
  • I never even thought of that, wow. I will try that at school today. Thanks!
    – Andrew Schaefer
    Commented Feb 16, 2018 at 13:01
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    180° may not work, it depends how sensitive they are.
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Feb 16, 2018 at 13:02
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    should be easy to test - just put a magnet near the lid and/or front of the PC and see what happens.
    – Journeyman Geek ♦
    Commented Feb 19, 2018 at 0:55

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