sleep

I just got a USB 2.0 PCI card that has 5 ports and I installed it and everything seems to work fine except when I put the computer to sleep, it won't wake up. The only way to get it back up is to do a reboot. I reset the Open firmware, suggestion from a similar post, ran fsck and nothing will...

iMac G5 running 10.3.9. Whenever I try to use sleep mode, the computer goes to sleep for a brief period, then shuts down. I have had the problem for a while and avidly tried to search for an answer a while back with no success. However, this forum just solved my sound problem, so maybe I'll get...

I have a 15" Macbook Pro but when I shut the lid now it no longer goes to sleep. Is this normal or is there a problem? I have checked the Preferences but cannot find anywhere that might swtich on this lid-close sleep option. Many Thanks Michael

My SanDisk Cruzer 512MB flash drive is causing problems. Everything is fine until my iBook G4 (or my G4 mintower, which didn't used to have this problem) wakes from sleep with the flash drive mounted. I can work in any application or use Finder with other volumes, but as soon as I try to do...

It there any way to spin down one internal hard drive and not all others? I have two drives in my Gigabit Ethernet G4, one of which I only need to have on when backing up. The drives are on two different busses. Is there a utility that does this? Should I just get an external drive case? Is it...

I recently added a Canon MP450 to my G4 Powermac and have experienced system freezes after waking from sleep when the printer is turned on. Computer wakes fine but after the printer has gone through its warmup "exercises" the system freezes and has to be rebooted. Force quit does not work. After...

Ppl, what do you suggest, sleep or shutdown? As for the overnight and also for bigger time periods like weekends, day or two, even more. I found some people said that sleep mode is better and not risky at all, can't do any harm to Mac, instead shutting down Mac every night can be more bad...

Two quick questions with regards to controlling monitors. 1.) G5 w/ 23" Cinema Display... How can i manually tell the display to go to sleep? I've heard some people say that their Display panel has an Options tab which lets them define what happens when hitting the power button on the...

hi, after finally installing tiger on my beloved pismo it started to behave strange. if it has been put to sleep for awhile, at the moment i wake it up, the whole machine freezes appearantly because it can't find its' harddrive. restarting won't help, it'll show the missing system-folder...

Someone said that, even for modern HD's, spinups and downs reduced their lifespan, and, therefore, he set his sleep function to never, and left his computer on 24/7. Any test results supporting this? (My imac600 HD [Maxtor] failed after about 3 years, and I had it set to sleep after 15 minutes.)

I've had this computer for abaout a year and bought it used on Ebay. Nothing's changed with my setup since I got it, no additional peripherals added, but last week I encountered a problem with the machine waking from sleep. This occours both when the system puts itsef to sleep automatically. and...

I was hoping I could find the answer to my problem by searching the archives but I couldn't find a search engine. Frequently, when I close my ibook's lid the laptop goes completely to sleep, well actually it goes comotose! Open lid and it will not return from sleep. Screen is black, yet I...

I just purchased a new 17 inch powerbook. I am running the newest OS - 10.4.5 - tiger is fully updated. When my computer goes to sleep the screen goes black, but then the right side of the screen flashes light intermittently. It is a whitish hue light that quickly flahes on that side of the...

the cursor of my powerbook pismo (g3 500 mhz, 640 mb ram, mac os x 10.4.5) freezes for approx. 30 seconds after i wake it from sleep. this happens often, but not always when it awakes. i've experienced this cursor freeze after sleep with two different pismos, one of them with an almost...

Hi, I recently had to get a new Logic board and DC/sound card for my PowerBook G4 1.25 GHz, due to some kind of electrical shortcut. After this repair, my airport connection has become very unreliable. After an arbitrary (it seems) period of time, seemingly without any outer cause, the...

I have an 800 mhz eMac with OS 10.4.4 installed. My computer will not go to sleep automatically. In system preferences/energy saver, I can set the display to sleep automaticlally after a set period of inactivity but the computer and the hard disks, when set for the same or slightly different...