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#1
July 18th, 2008, 03:29 PM
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| mac won't stay asleep For some reason (which I hope someone knows why) my computer started to not stay sleeping. I would go to the apple menu, select sleep, the screen goes dark but then a few seconds later the screen comes back on. I haven't changed any preferences so not sure why it's doing this. When using screen saver it stays. Thanks  |
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#2
July 19th, 2008, 12:03 AM
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| Some application is still accessing the net or your network and not letting go when you sleep the Mac. The two things you must do is be calm and play detective. The applications you can use are /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor and System Preferences->Accounts, "Login Items" and see there if a service is always accessing the net. When the Sleep problems happen immediately launch Activity Monitor and see what is accessing the network. Plus run some maintenance on that Mac. Download either Yasu or Onyx and run all the maintenance routines. Then reboot twice after the maintenance scripts restart the machine to rebuild all the shutdown & startup cache. Running maintenance every couple months can keep a Mac running clean and happy.
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#3
July 19th, 2008, 03:14 AM
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| Do you have a Portable or Desktop Mac? It could also be a Dashboard Widget that's causing your mac to keep waking up .... have you installed any new ones lately? Do you have any apps still running when you put your Mac to sleep? Are there any USB hub/Devices connected to the Mac? Here is an Apple doc re: Sleep Issues: Mac OS X: Why your Mac might not sleep or stay in sleep mod. You should also test a new user account on your Mac to see whether this is a global issue. Last edited by VirtualTracy; July 20th, 2008 at 02:47 AM. |
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July 19th, 2008, 08:53 AM
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#5
July 19th, 2008, 11:12 AM
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| I had this problem with usb devices. If you have some try unplugging them and see which is causing the problem. I have quite a lengthy thread on my problem and the solution. |
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July 19th, 2008, 12:48 PM
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| I fitted two USB 2.0 ports to my My G4 PowerPC eighteen months ago. If I leave a 2.0 USB connection plugged into the G4 it refuses to go to sleep. Take out the USB 2.0 connector and the problem goes away. As Simbalala suggests, some external device connection may well be a culprit.
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July 19th, 2008, 01:08 PM
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| I have a g4 tower and flat apple monitor. I haven't changed or added any new Widgets, actually don't even use it much. I haven't even installed anything lately, just less than a week ago it started to do that. Not sleeping. I only have firefox open usually when I put it to sleep. I tried actually right now to put it to sleep with firefox and msn open and it went to sleep fine. Go figure. There is a hug plugged into the tower as well as the usb plug for the monitor adapter. |
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