Deactivate lid switch so that the laptop can operate in a magnetic field

[sdafgøjosdafg]

I work on a production plant where I often have to work in an environment with heavy magnetic fields from large electricity conductors. I am talking about conductors transporting hundreds of Kilo Amperes causing very strong magnetic fields. Even walking with steel tipped shoes can be a bit tricky, because the steel tips of the shoes are caught by the magnetic field, it feels almost like tripping on something. It is impossible to operate a laptop in these fields because the lid switch will be tripped by the magnetic fields and will turn off the screen. Will need a way to disable or physically remove the lid switch from a laptop, or a suggestion to a normal business laptop that have a setting in bios for disabling the lid switch. And please do not refer to the "Do nothing" setting in the power management in windows for "when I close the Lid", this setting really does nothing to help the situation in these magnetic fields. On Dell laptops we could to a certain extent work around the problem by replacing the driver for the ACPI Lid in device manager with driver for Microsoft Volume Manager, but this hack does not work on our HP Laptops typically in the Elitebook series.. We don't need a laptop that can withstand an atomic bomb, dropped in water, driven over by a tank, or dropped from a plane,  we just need a normal handy laptop mostly for office and travel usage but with the possibility to disable the lid switch whenever we have to work in the magnetic fields. This ability or feature or whatever you would call it, is not mentioned or listed  in any specs or easily available overview when browsing through the models. Maybe such a model exist, but it is if so not easy to identify.. So, is there any "normal" HP laptops that have this possibility?? Or is there an easy way/hack to disable/enable this switch on Elitebook series?? 

[Dragon-Fur]

@sdafgøjosdafg 

Interesting.

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This might not be something we can address in the Community.

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[johnnyzero2a]

Most laptops utilize a magnetically-operated  "reed switch" in the case and a magnet in the lid to accomplish this.

I think you would need to locate the reed switch and either disable it (disconnect it or cut a circuit board trace), or jumper it; depending on whether it's a "normally open-" or "normally closed-"type switch.

If you can tell me the exact model, I can help you locate it.

[sdafgøjosdafg]

Yes, and I have by the help of a magnet located the approximate area of the lid switch. But we use multiple models, not just a spesific one. One model would the the Elitebook 840 G6. It is however a shame that the only solution to this is to void the three year warranty by cutting and hacking into the laptop and that would permanently disable the switch. For office and travel use (which is probably most of the time) it would be preferable to have the lid switch working to actually turn of the monitor when the lid is closed. Dell have som rugged versions of some laptop models, where the rugged version has an extra setting in bios for disabling the lid switch. I don't know this for a fact, but I would imagine that there is no extra or different hardware involved to make such an option available in BIOS, probably just a simple matter of programming the bios. If this is the case, why could not just this option also be available on the standard versions of laptops..

So, does HP have a laptop where disabling the lid switch is an option in the bios, or is there a windows hack that works on HP's in the same way as replacing the driver for the ACPI Lid works on Dell laptops??