Hey guys,

I've been working on some software that tests the operational integrity of a notebook by testing individual hardware components.

So far, everything's working well. But my manager wants me to create a test that forces our testers to close the lid of the notebook.

I've managed to create a test, but it relies on the notebook going to sleep when the lid is closed and is not very reliable.

Ideally, I'd like to close the lid and have the power setting set to "Do Nothing" when the lid is closed. But all the research I've done, has turn up with nothing. I've even reached out to specialist sites like ExpertsExchange and I've even reached out to ATI to see if they had an API that would identify this on their video cards. I saw another guy trying to do something similar on VBF. In fact, the method he posted is what I'm using right now, but like I mentioned, it's not a viable method. I've seen many different posts on this, but no one's been able to come up with a method.

But! I've seen this before. I've seen software that can detect it, but I'm unable to get my hands on it.

So I was wondering if anyone knew of any third party software that would allow me to accomplish this.

Any ideas, guys?