On Mon, Jun 10, 2002, 11:19pm, Donna Hood Pointer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kindly responded:
=== 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. --- This isn't just dimming. It goes black. When I hit a key, the screen flashes and then rebuilds, the way it would when it recovers from sleep. The track pad is unavailable or the cursor may be jerky during this time and I may only have a second or so to use it before it goes black again, or it may allow me to work for a few minutes before going black. === 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"? --- Yes, when I click and release on it, the "active" lines disappear from the icon and it says it's off but it goes right on spinning. If I set it to sleep after a specified time, The screen darkens at the right time but the drive will continue to spin as long as I leave it powered on. === 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 --- I don't have Norton on this drive and the Disk Tools floppy is standard. Since this drive worked fine on another 520c and is unchanged and since this 520c behaves the same way booted from a Disk Tools floppy, I think it must be hardware related. Possibly bad ROM? =============================== Hardy, Hard's Disk Ltd., Freehold NY. A branch of the Abandoned Computer Shelter. Apple and Mac parts gratefully accepted. Systems charitably donated. http://www.jmug.org/acs for a branch near you. -- 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
