An update:
I have traced the recurrence of sleep deprivation
(** below) to the presence of a powered-on Wacom
Tablet on the Wallstreet serial port.
If I switch off the Wacom tablet, the Wallstreet sleeps and wakes normally
..AD
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On 2010-01-21 13:43 +1100, classical wrote:
On my Wallstreet (Tiger X.4.11) I had sleep
deprivation after installing a Hitachi 120GB
HDD. Machine would sleep normally if booted with
same OS from an expansion bay module, so a
hardware error was extremely unlikely.
The problem was solved (for a while**) by
setting the L2 backside cache policy to "Write
Through". To do that, I used Daystar's XLR8 MACh
Speed Control which I have found worth the
purchase price. There may be freeware/shareware
alternatives which still work
( http://forum.macsales.com/viewtopic.php?t=1766 )
**For several months, the machine was
sleeping/waking reliably, but now the problem
seems to have returned. I suspect there could
be an interaction between Speed Control and any
of several recently installed software upgrades
[ Apple Security Updates 4 and 5, Tablet Magic
(a serial port enabler for legacy Wacom
tablets), Safari 4.0.4 (WebKit?), and possibly
Java updates 8 and 9 ]
hth.. AD
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On 19/1/10 9:38 PM +0000, Alex Santos wrote:
I apologize but I obviously misread your issue.
When you open the lid the machine kernel panics.
Could you try to startup the mac holding the
shift key (when booting to OSX) and try to
shutdown.
View this link to understand what safe boot is,
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564
Basically if the machine works as expected
after starting up in safeboot we likely have an
OS issue.
If you have any external hardware connected to
your mac be sure to detach those as some
hardware can cause conflicts with the OS.
When did you first notice the issue? Can you
think of any action you took, software install
or otherwise that you might be able to
correlate with the issue?
You say it shutdown when opening the lid, is
the machine running off the power adapter? If
it kernel panics on startup, does the kernel
panic happen before you login? If it does, then
it is a system wide issue that would
necessitate a re-install of OSX or there are
kernel extensions in the way.
It's a real pity that you do not have the OS
install discs as a re-install of OSX could help
understand if the issue is hardware or
software, then again, if the machine behaves
perfectly fine and the issue is not
reproducible within OS9 then we can rule out
the mac hardware as the source of the issue.
Again, I hope this helps provide further insight.
These two apple support articles should provide
further insight, recommended reading in your
caseŠ
About "You need to restart your computer" (kernel panic) messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1392
Mac OS X: How to log a kernel panic
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2546
Regards
Alex
On 19 Jan 2010, at 18:20, je2 wrote:
Well i have reset the pram but it still kernel panics occasionally and
doesn't sleep in tiger. Would there be any other way to install the
appropriate files for instance in tiger for this machine? I'm not keen
on buying the os to install again because the only place i would be
able to buy it would be off ebay and then it is $50 and up.
Regards ::je2::
On Jan 19, 8:50 am, Alex Santos <[email protected]> wrote:
Greetings
If you are not sure about the OS installed
on your system and if the OS installed on
your computer is in question then you could
see more issues that may appear as a hardware
problem when it may not be. I suggest you
refer to MacTracker, a free download for the
iPod Touch, iPhone and Mac, install it, look
up your machine and it will tell which OS
originally came with your machine and buy
yourself a copy, start up from that OS CD,
zero out the drive and then perform an erase
and install.
The other option would be to consider that
the USB stick is not compatible or has a
hardware problem. Consider erasing the USB
stick.
Your original email mentioned a sleep issue.
You might consider resetting the PMU.
Google search the following,
PMU reset site:support.apple.com
open the article google brings back and reset the PMU.
>> Kernel panics typically relate to
incomatbile hardware connected to your mac.
When ever you buy a second hand computer,
you should always consider erasing the HD as
your first step. Who knows what crud is on
the HD causing problems.
So I would start by erasing the HD and
installing OS X/9 from scratch so you have a
guaranteed clean install but make sure you
have either the discs that came bundled with
your unit or made for your model or use a
retail copy of the OS that meets the system
requirements for your machine.
You can find more about your machine athttp://www.apple.com/support/specs/
So, don't think it is a hardware problem, it
may be but it is more likely to be the
install of the OS that is causing issues
because it appears to work well with OS9.
Hope this helps. If anything is not clear
please let me know and I will provide more
details.
Alex
On 18 Jan 2010, at 17:57, je2 wrote:
Copyed and pasted for the system.log
Honestly i dont know if the os is a system specific model because i
bought the ibook off ebay :/
regards
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