Hi Listers, Time to have more "fun" with my G4 Quicksilver 867 (Tiger 10.4.9/OS 9.2.2 for Classic) here. I like to put it to sleep when I go to bed at night, and it always did (I'd click the mouse in the morning to wake it up) -- until the last two nights.
But yes, there's been a significant change, which I suspect is the cause of the insomnia -- we put a second monitor on it Saturday afternoon, and the insomnia started Saturday night. Back in February, we replaced the stock NVIDIA GeForce MX2 video card with a Radeon 9200, but kept the same monitor (19" Gateway EV910). All was well for a long time, but then I finally had a reason to want TWO monitors running at the same time. This past Saturday, I shut down the G4 and my BF put the NVIDIA card back in so it could run a second monitor (15" NEC MultiSync XV 15+). Yes, I remembered to ask my BF to hit the CUDA button when he put the NVIDIA card in, and then we did a PRAM zap when we rebooted the machine (he held the keys, I pushed the power button on the G4, which BTW is now no longer nose-accessible so I'll never be able to do that myself anymore unless I can do it with the big toe of my right foot!).When the computer is up and I'm using it, it's terrific: both monitors work, the Mac works, yes the second monitor is as helpful as I anticipated, and it's all wonderful. But when I wanted to go to bed Saturday night: I put the Mac to sleep as usual from the Apple menu -- or should I say, I tried to -- it wouldn't go to sleep at all. Tried again -- it went to sleep, but woke back up again within a minute or two. So I then go to Energy Saver -- the settings hadn't changed, but OK, apparently they didn't work for the new setup, so I changed them. Originally, I had it set so just being inactive didn't make the computer sleep at all (Never), but that the screen saver should kick in at 10 mins of inactive time (and the box to put the HDs to sleep when possible was checked). I changed this so the computer should sleep at 1 min inactive (just to see) and the screen saver to 5 mins. It went to sleep but woke up again -- as soon as I had crawled into bed! Well I was really tired and said hell with it. When I got up in the morning, the screen saver was on (which didn't used to be the case). Grrrr. OK, so yesterday I mess with the Energy Saver again, I set it to one hour inactive to go to sleep, and screen saver back to 15 mins. At bedtime, I get in bed, and while I'm tired, I'm not tired enough to pass out immediately, and I hear the computer wake up, go back to sleep, wake up again, at about 8 minute intervals (?!??!?!?!) and it's definitely inactive -- I'm in bed and it's on the desk across the room from me (and my BF had gone home, hahaha so he wasn't using it either!). It did that three times before I fell asleep. When I got up this morning, it seemed to be asleep (the monitors were dark, clicking the mouse got me back to my desktop). Well, IMO this is all just weird. Why won't my G4 just go to sleep from the Apple Menu anymore, why does it keep waking up, and what happened to WYSIWYG with the Energy Saver settings? I REALLY liked being able to just put my Mac to sleep at night instead of shutting it down the way I did when I was totally on OS 9....is this the price I have to pay for the second monitor? Thanks, ~Yersinia. ________ IMPORTANT: This email is intended for the use of the individual addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is confidential, privileged or unsuitable for overly sensitive persons with low self-esteem, no sense of humor or irrational religious beliefs. If you are not the intended recipient, any dissemination, distribution or copying of this email is not authorized (either explicitly or implicitly) and constitutes an irritating social faux pas. No animals were harmed in the transmission of this email, although the mutt next door is living on borrowed time, let me tell you. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
