OS deployment to laptops with lids closed and battery power?

I'm trying to deploy Windows 7 to laptops with the lids closed.  I send wake on lan to start the deployment and it works on some of the laptops (they are all identical) and the rest run part way and never complete until I walk to the laptop and open
the lid (then the deployment resumes).
I am assuming the reason some complete and some do not is because the smart device that charges these laptops charges the laptops in banks to avoid overloading the power source and maybe the laptops do not want to continue after a reboot if they are not
actively charging at that moment and the lid is closed.
Are there any special settings (power plan settings or BIOS settings) we should configure to ensure that deployment continues unattended whether the lid is open or closed and whether the laptop is charging or not?

I am assuming the reason some complete and some do not is because the smart device that charges these laptops charges the laptops in banks to avoid overloading the power source and maybe the laptops do not want to continue after a reboot if they are not
actively charging at that moment and the lid is closed.
Are there any special settings (power plan settings or BIOS settings) we should configure to ensure that deployment continues unattended whether the lid is open or closed and whether the laptop is charging or not?
Connect an external monitor up to one of the laptops in question to see what is really going on. Specifically what is blocking things here? Are the machines actually booted into WinPE or the full OS, or are they blocked at BIOS.
Everything else at this point is speculation. There is nothing built into MDT Litetouch that would prevent it from continuing due to the state of the Laptop LID
Keith Garner - Principal Consultant (owner) at <a href="http://DeploymentLive.com/">http://DeploymentLive.com</a>

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