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Quad won't sleep with new HD
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Bill Kinkle
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Mar 19, 2006, 07:33 PM
 
I just installed a 250gb Maxtor SATA drive in my Quad along with 4 gigs of RAM from OWC. Now when I try to put it to sleep the display goes to sleep, but mt PM does not. The fan kicks on and off (which is ungodly loud) and I cannot get it to turn back on. The only wy to wake it up is to hold the power button down so it shuts down completely and restart the computer. Anyone ever had issues like this with extra HD's or RAM possibly?
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leperkuhn
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Mar 20, 2006, 06:52 PM
 
I have this issue with my powermac g4 (dual 1gz). never figured it out, I never sleep the machine now.

2 gig ram, 2 HD's.
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Jason Bourne
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Mar 22, 2006, 09:47 PM
 
Have you tried removing the RAM to see what is causing the issue? First step would be to try to isolate the problem to a specific stick of RAM or the HD.

I have a Quad, and funnily enough, also added a 300GB Maxtor drive and 4GB of RAM from OWC and have no problems with sleeping or anything else. Sounds like you got a bad part. OWC will take care of you if you can find out what is causing it.
     
   
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