On 16/04/2011, at 4:34 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: > Trying to be energy miserly I bought a Jackson Green Energy Saving Powerboard > (http://www.ji.com.au/products/PT9778/). > It works fine with my G5 plugged in to the Master socket and everything else, > display, printers, router, modem, Airport, scanner, Firewire drives and so on > in Slave sockets. When I shut down at night the G5 goes through Shutdown > then everything switches off. In the morning at 8.40am when the G5 restarts > everything comes back on. > There is an unfortunate snag. During the day when I am away from the desk I > put the G5 to sleep. When I try this it goes to sleep then almost instantly > reawakes. I believe that the sleep current drawn is so small that the board > obediently powers down the slaves and in their dying gasps the modem and the > like send out signals and the G5 responds by waking up. > Has anyone else used one of these gadgets or have any bright ideas for a > workaround?
Hi Severin, Just a thought, In System Preferences > Energy Saver. Do you have the G5 set to “Wake for Network Access’. Cheers, Ronni 17" MacBook Pro 2.3GHz Quad-Core i7 2.3GHz / 8GB / 750GB @ 7200rpm HD OS X 10.6.7 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
