Does the crash occur if devices are attached *directly* to the machine? (no hub)
Have you used a process of elimination to check all components? Things like cables, connectors, receiver ports, and your devices. Take one device out of the loop and try 'sleep' without it to see if you can narrow it down some. For instance, leave the printer connected through the hub, and just disconnect the scanner. Does it still crash? ...and vice-versa ? disconnect the printer and connect the scanner through the hub. ...crash? Other things like switching out cables, trading off hub ports, etc, to rule out a bad cable or USB port. LemmeNoe. Regards, Russ Preston On Mar 19, 2006, at 7:05 PM, NPfield at aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 3/19/06 4:15:29 PM, "R.D. Preston" wrote: >> >> But first, earlier in the thread, you mentioned a sleep/crash >> problem. >> Would you please briefly describe the 'crash' - and the devices >> attached or involved at the time? > > It's been a long time, Russ, but as I recall, I had an Epson C80 > printer (since replaced) and a Microtek scanner attached through > the hub. The 'puter is an IMac G4 1GHz -- the one that looks like > half a basketball. I would put it to sleep, then when I tried to > wake it up, I would get that scary screen with four or five > languages, all telling me I had to restart the Mac. Someone > somewhere online (can't remember where) reported the same problem > and suggested I try disconnecting the hub. Once I did, the problem > disappeared. I know this is the problem; occasionally I hook up > the scanner through the hub and forget to disconnect it before > putting 'puter to sleep; same thing happens. > > While we're at it, here's another longstanding nag: often, when I > try to sign on to aol, I get a message reporting that the computer > can't communicate with the modem. Hey, the modem is internal -- > isn't all this stuff hardwired? This error message is erratic; > sometimes I have to hit "continue" as much as five times before it > connects. Sometimes only two or three. Sometimes not at all. And > sometimes, after hitting "continue" five times, I get the orginal > aol welcome screen and have to start all over again. When that > doesn't work, I find that restarting the computer cures the problem > -- for a time. Then it starts all over again. And the time lapse > before it starts again varies widely. ???? > > Nolan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060319/d8d64397/attachment.html
