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'Sleep' power button throbber - no, don't laugh!
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Ok, I'm enjoying my shiny new PowerMac Dual 1.25 G4 but my wife has a problem with it - the power button light! 
When it goes into standby the power button throbs a very bright white light, which projects itself dramaticly onto our bedroom ceiling like a UFO has just landed in the corner of the bedroom 
Is there a configuration option to stop it?
I don't want to shut the machine down as I want it to wake on LAN activity.
Ideas anyone?
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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your powermac is snoring. get one of those breath-right strips and tape it over the light.
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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Tape might work. You might also want to unplug the front board when the computer is sleeping or such.
The light is actually quite dim compared to that of the quicksilver lol. Poor wife.
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In a realm beyond site, the sky shines gold, not blue, there the Triforce's might makes mortal dreams come true.
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Originally posted by Mac Zealot:
Tape might work. You might also want to unplug the front board when the computer is sleeping or such.
The light is actually quite dim compared to that of the quicksilver lol. Poor wife.
Um... do NOT unplug the board while the machine is on, sleeping or not. Very bad idea.
Put a book in front of the machine.
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Even the ibook or powerbook has a light that can be disturbing in a dark room. I just put something in front of it.
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Originally posted by Icruise:
Even the ibook or powerbook has a light that can be disturbing in a dark room. I just put something in front of it.
Indeed.
If it bugs you *that* much, you can take the LED out and replace it with a resistor, but I wouldn't recommend it. At all.
Same goes for the iBook - infact, I have an iBook LED sitting right here...
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I too recommend a tastefully round-cut piece of masking tape the perfect size to cover the power button, so as to be as unobstrusive as possible.
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