I have a 520. I don't think the behavior you describe is "sleep", but rather screen dimming. As I recall, this is a battery saving feature. It is not necessary to have the screen at full brightness while it is starting up or when you are opening a file, because you cannot do anything else until that procedure finishes. The screen display uses a lot of battery juice.
If you have the sleep controls set to "never" it probably would not spin down the hard drive. Do you have the control strip item that says "spin down the hard drive"? If you have Norton it checks all sorts of things on the drive. I've heard of a PB taking a long time to sleep or shut down with Norton installed and file backup (I've forgotten what Norton calls that) turned on. Donna Pointer-- iMac, ergo iAm > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (PowerBooks) > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:21:47 -0400 > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (PowerBooks) > Subject: PowerBooks Digest #886 > > Narcoleptic 520c Won't Spin Down > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This stock but beat up eBay "Parts" 520c has 12MB RAM and is running OS > 7.1.2 on a 170 MB Apple IBM drive. > > I use it mostly as a test bed & conditioner for RAM & batteries but also > word processing. > > It has a nasty habit of going to sleep any time it feels like it but > mostly when opening things. Open a control panel or app. and the screen > may go black. Hit any key and it comes back but may immediately go to > sleep again, as soon as everything is properly displayed on the screen. > Setting the sleep control to never, has no effect. It will do this when > booting from a disk tools floppy as well as the hard drive, so I don't > think it's a software problem. > > It also runs the hard drive continuously. It won't ever spin down even > when it's put to sleep from the menu. > > I have reseated the processor card and switched RAM cards to no effect. > > If it can't be fixed inexpensively, it's no big deal. but I do use it > and the narcolepsy is really annoying. > > Thanks for any insight you can provide, -- PowerBooks is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PowerBooks list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/powerbooks.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/powerbooks%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
