> First the specs of this machine. It's a Dual 1.25 G4 Powermac MDD.
> It's bone stock except for having 1.25gb ram, and an Apple combo drive
> in the second bay. The problem I'm having is it will never auto sleep.
> I understand that some PCI cards can cause this problem, but I have
> none installed. I've tried everything short of installing a new OS to
> fix the problem, and with little to show for it. I'm kinda hoping this
> is an easy fix because I hate the idea of this thing running 24/7.
> Anyway, this is what it's doing. I'll set the energy saver panel to
> put the computer at some value, and when that time is reached, the
> monitor immediately shuts down, but everything continues to roar
> inside the case. Occasionally I'll hear the hard drive spin down, to
> only hear it immediately spin up again. All the problematic option in
> the control panel are switched off (spinning hard drive down when
> possible, or wake for various things), I've removed the multiple
> preference files, flashed the pram, unplugged all USB devices, ect.
> I'm stuck, and open to ideas. Thanks guys.
>
> Jake Zeppa
>
A look at your activity monitor may shed some light on an app or activity
happening in the background that may be constantly going.
Some people have their email app to constantly scan for new messages for
instance or do you have an RSS feed setup to update you as soon as there is new
content.
Stewie
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