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Weird laptop glitch?

Rulerish

Commendable
Jul 29, 2016
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Last night my laptop was working like a charm, and this morning doesn't want to boot up. The weird thing is, it can only boot up if I press the power button and then close the lid. If I open the lid, the laptop shuts down after 2-3 seconds.

Now I'm out of town, but at home I usually connect the laptop to a bigger screen and I played with the options so my laptop screen will turn off when the bigger screen is connected, maybe that's the issue?
 
It is possible that the laptop is still registering the info for the external monitor usage, but then again, it needing to close is odd.

What happens exactly?