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phobos · Nov 23, 2007, 12:06 AM

Well as it seems my machine wants to work harder...
In 10.4 I couldn't bring my machine to sleep. The sleeping after x minutes of inactivity wasn't working at all.
Now with Leopard sleeping works but my Mac Pro wakes up every day at around 2:00 in the morning.
And the best part is that I don't know why!
In energy saver all the setting are correct. The startup or wake button is disabled. The only thing that is enabled is the sleep every day at 12:30 button.
At this moment I don't have an internet connection at home so this means that it is not waking up through ethernet.
So at this point I just can't figure out what's causing this behaviour.
Anyone, any ideas???

Thanks in advance

Duracell · Nov 23, 2007, 07:09 AM

Originally Posted by phobos

Well as it seems my machine wants to work harder...
In 10.4 I couldn't bring my machine to sleep. The sleeping after x minutes of inactivity wasn't working at all.
Now with Leopard sleeping works but my Mac Pro wakes up every day at around 2:00 in the morning.
And the best part is that I don't know why!
In energy saver all the setting are correct. The startup or wake button is disabled. The only thing that is enabled is the sleep every day at 12:30 button.
At this moment I don't have an internet connection at home so this means that it is not waking up through ethernet.
So at this point I just can't figure out what's causing this behaviour.
Anyone, any ideas???

Thanks in advance

Does OS X still do nightly schedueled stuff around that time in the morning? I'm pretty sure my iMac used to do it, Can't be sure though - That might be it though

phobos · Nov 23, 2007, 07:52 AM

It would do that if you had your machine on or in sleep mode if I remember correctly.
In my case the computer is off. Not in sleep mode. Completely off.
It's really weird

Matthew Attoe · Nov 23, 2007, 11:19 AM

Unless you have your Mac unplugged from the wall, it is never really completely off.

I discovered this when EyeTV started to wake my supposedly completely off G5 to make scheduled TV recordings that I'd forgotten about. Thought I had a telly-addict ghost for a while

When I do switch off my G5 at the wall, I can then hear the Mac truly shutdown.

I've also noticed that my G5 is also consuming somewhere around 1-2watts whilst it is "completely off" - so an off Mac is still consuming around 13Kwh of power a year!

Cheers,

Matthew

phobos · Nov 23, 2007, 06:05 PM

yeah I accept that but my problem is that is turns on whenever I don't want it turned on.
I'm more inclined to find out why this is happening

himself · Nov 23, 2007, 08:57 PM

Did you try resetting the PRAM? Command+Option+P+R on reboot or startup.

phobos · Nov 25, 2007, 04:39 AM

nice! Now the machine takes double time to boot. It started up in 25 seconds now it takes 45.
The same goes for some of the programs like illustrator. It used to take 15 or so seconds and now it's 25.
That's not good

P · Nov 25, 2007, 07:01 AM

The double time to boot is easily fixed. Your Mac is scanning all HDs to find the best folder to boot from. To fix, direct it to boot from a specific folder. Open System Preferences-> Startup Disk and select the System folder on your main harddrive.

Double time to launch apps is probably just a question of being newly rebooted - relaunching apps is faster than launching them the first time.

phobos · Nov 25, 2007, 12:29 PM

well P you were right.
I wouldn't even think that would be the boot time problem. I sort of thought that by default it would choose the volume with osX. But it seems this is not the case.
Thanks for that!