laptop shutting down when closing the lid and saying password is incorrect

[Guest golfph]

Whenever the lid on this laptop closes, it shuts down. The settings on the control panel says that closing the lid should sleep it, however it shuts down instead. After powering it on after opening the lid, it shows the "you have entered an incorrect password too many times" and requires typing the A1B2C3 code before inputting password. Why does it do this? It was working fine up until this point.The first problem - shutting down when closing lid - has occurred before, but it had fixed itself that time, and the password error did not happen.EDIT: fixed the incorrect password issue by entering

 

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