G4 Insomnia and Incipient Upgrade
Hello Wise Ones! I have a G4 as detailed below that has not slept for about a month. This is not as dire as that would indicate as I turn on when about to work and then turn off at bedtime. However, since once the fan broke, I fuss a bit that the hard drive always motored up is asking for trouble. But maybe not so much. I plan to upgrade the OS, have got my hands on a copy of 10.4, just haven't quite got all my ducks lined up. The upgrade may well fix the sleep problem. I did unhook the hub and it still would not sleep. I have jiggled the settings in Energy Saver all over the place to no avail. What happens is (1) if I leave the machine by itself, the screen saver goes on but sleep never takes over, (2) if I manually put to sleep it wakes up 2 seconds later. Any more ideas or should I just forget it and try the upgrade? Anne Keller Smith Down to Earth Web Design Intel iMac 2.4gHz Core 2 Duo 1GB RAM, 250GB Hard Drive, OS 10.5.5 G4 Quicksilver 733mHz Tower 896 MB RAM, 40 GB hard drive, OS 10.2.8 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.downtoearthweb.com --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: G4 Insomnia and Incipient Upgrade
On Nov 25, 2008, at 10:46 AM, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: I did unhook the hub and it still would not sleep. I have jiggled the settings in Energy Saver all over the place to no avail. What happens is (1) if I leave the machine by itself, the screen saver goes on but sleep never takes over, (2) if I manually put to sleep it wakes up 2 seconds later. Any more ideas or should I just forget it and try the upgrade? Try the upgrade...that may well fix the problem. If it doesn't look in the Console for errors related to hardware, particularly firewire or USB. -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: G4 Insomnia and Incipient Upgrade
jonas ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you repaired disk permissions? What would that have to do with a sleep issue? Bob --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: G4 Insomnia and Incipient Upgrade
It's just something to try... Also maybe zapping the pram can solve allot of weird problems... turn the computer on and hold down Command Options P R On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Bob Whiton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jonas ulrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: have you repaired disk permissions? What would that have to do with a sleep issue? Bob --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
