Machine freezes while being put into sleep

[Herbert Goodfriend]

Sometimes when I put the iMac (G3 600MHz Summer 2001) to sleep, the 
display goes to sleep but the machine just freezes. It cannot be 
awakened and an attempt to restart it using the restart button 
results in a chime, some hard drive clicks and nothing more. It can 
be shut off by holding the power button in; then it can be started 
normally. This happens once every fourth or fifth time that I try to 
put the machine to sleep.

I have tried zapping the PRAM and resetting the Open Firmware, 
removing the aftermarket RAM chip, and disconnecting all peripherals 
(per instruction from Apple Tech Support). None of this worked.

The problem began about a month ago when I did an upgrade 
installation of OS 10.2 over 10.1.5, which caused many problems. 
Amost all other problems were resolved by erasing the OS X partition 
of my hard disk and re-installing 10.2. (I am now up to 10.2.8) The 
one other remaining problem is that the keyboard menu sometimes 
disappears from the menu bar.

Any suggestions? I intend to re-initialize the disk and re-install everything.

Herb Goodfriend

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