Screen rotation

[Jawloms]

Morning,

 

I've bought a dozen refurb'd HP 8570p laptops and installed Windows 10 and all the latest drivers from the HP website. The display keeps rotating itself! It has a sensor in it to rotate the screen depending on which way up the laptop is, but whilst flat on a table it will rotate the screen on to it's side after only a couple of minutes. You can straighten it again by pressing CTRL + ALT + Up, but then it flips back again anywhere between immediately and a few minutes. It's got an Intel HD 4000 in it. I've googled and found this (https://support.hp.com/gb-en/document/c01676226) however that is presumably for a different version of the driver as I don't have a tick box to disable auto-rotation. I downloaded the latest version of the driver from Intel and that said it won't work on my device.

 

Anyone else had this?

 

Thank you

 

Stuart

 

P.S. Why do you even need auto rotate in a laptop?? How often do people turn their laptop on it's side and back again? Hotkeys to do it manually, fine, but the expense of a sensor?? Weird......

P.P.S. No it doesn't have a detachable screen.

[Scifigirl]

probably obvious, but turn off tablet mode???

[Jawloms]

probably obvious, but turn off tablet mode???

 

It isn't in tablet mode. I know it doesn't necessarily make a difference to tablet mode, but the laptop isn't touch screen or have any IWB software/drivers installed.

Edited November 29, 2018 by Jawloms

[PD1279]

As it's Windows 10 in Display Settings (not Intel Graphics Properties) does it have this setting as this should be where it detects the sensor and you disable it

Edited November 29, 2018 by PD1279

[Jawloms]

That's it, thank you.

 

Stuart

[PD1279]

No problem, glad I could help