Hi Severin & Mike,
Usually it is an external USB or FireWire peripheral that causes sleep
problems, or in a majority of cases it has been a software issue with
either drivers and / or software to peripherals ... mainly printers.
OR
Short on RAM.
<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1776?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_AU>
You could try this:
Set an aggressive sleep time of a few minutes, have a look at Activity
Monitor and see if there are 3rd party background processes for
peripherals that you can eliminate. Eliminate one and see if it goes
to sleep.
Repeat till it sleeps as that should be the offending process.
If that process launches through your user's login items, maybe it
doesn't have to.
Another place to look would be in the offending application's
preferences.
Cheers,
Ronni
On 09/11/2008, at 5:01 PM, Mike Fuller wrote:
Likewise, my G5 2.0 DP won't sleep without manual intervention.
I've tried removing everything I could from actively running,
including startup items, and it didn't make any difference.
If anyone has any ideas I'd like to know also.
Cheers
Mike Fuller
On 09/11/2008, at 4:20 PM, Susan Hastings wrote:
Hi Severin, this doesn't help, but my G5 1.8 SP doesn't go to sleep
by itself either, I have to do it manually. Hence, its not the best
computer for using with my EyeTV, my mac mini will go to sleep when
its finished recording a program, but the G5 keeps chugging on.
cheers, Susan.
On 09/11/2008, at 3:14 PM, Severin Crisp wrote:
I am puzzled at the Sleep habits of my G5 1.8, 10.5.5.
If I select Sleep from the Apple menu it goes unambiguously into
full sleep to be awakened by hitting a key.
Energy saver is set to put displays to sleep after 7 mins (which
it does) and to put the computer to sleep after 10mins.
Additionally the disks are set to sleep whenever possible.
If I walk away from the computer it never goes properly to sleep,
the red light always shows in my USB mouse which will bring the
display back to life with a mouse movement and I can hear the
disks running.
Mail is set to check every 15 mins, Degrees Down Under refreshes
every 10 mins and Skype usually shows me online. I believe
Activity monitor should lead me to what is preventing full sleep
but am unable to interpret what I see. This is not a vital matter
but I would like to understand what is going on, comments much
appreciated.
Severin Crisp (enjoying a wonderful sunny afternoon here in Albany)
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