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mike/approach - May 31, 2005 - 6:29 am

Hi I have a small office of macs, with a G4 that should never sleep according to my settings. But lately it keeps going to sleep overnight for no apparent reason. Nothing seems to wake it, except power down or restart button.

I recently took it to the apple store genius bar because it would not power up at all. They just pressed the pmu button inside and solved it, and said that might explain the sleep probs. But its just happened again. Its also a very noisy machine, (the fan is working) especially compared to these new iMAc G5s. But I worry that it is somehow too hot or working to hard.



it is a 733mhz
1.25 gig ram
2 internal drives

running 10.3.9

thanks for any ideas

dedhedtek - Jun 2, 2005 - 12:18 am

saddly this seems to be a big problem wit hthe early g4s, first is it a quicksilver or quicksilver mdd(mirrored drive door) you can tell by the front of the case, it will be one solid color on the qu and the drive doors will be shiny on the qsmdd. I have seen both modles do this but was only able to fix one of them(qsmdd). make sure you have installed all updates via software update then double check all energy saver settings, make sure nothing will ever be turned off or put to sleep. booting from the pmu button once in a while may also help, this can also be a sign of a bad power switch or power supply. the switches break after being used a lot (in a school or office environment) and will sometimes do strange things, i experienced this problem and also could not boot with the normal power switch, Im now using a screw driver for the switch and had to replace the power supply because the switch shorted it out, also lost a stick of ram somehow. anyway leaving it on is a good idea but if you can try setting up another computer or other network device to send keepalive packets(any data should work just as long as it sends in short intervals) to keep the mac from falling asleep. and just so you dont run into the same problems as me start backing up the data on that mac as often as possible, just in case the problem gets any worse.