[devastHB]

Hey Guys, so after playing with my brand spanking new 2008 dual 2.8 quad mac pro for the past week, it seems I have the sleep issue that everyone else is complaining about in other forums. Basically what happens when my computer goes to sleep, instead of waking up on keypress, it REBOOTS causing me to lose everything I had on the desktop. I have tried:

resetting the SMC
resetting the PRAM
reinstalling leopard
reinstalling on another drive
not using my UPS

and I still have the issue. Actually resetting the SMC/PRAM seems to help as it will prevent it from resetting a few times after, but eventually it seems to always come back, this I have done twice already! I am very disappointed in Apple quality control, and actually waited a very long time to get a Mac Pro because I wanted any weirdness and oddities to get worked out. Also from reading forums it seems that so many people have this issue that I don't understand how Apple quality control missed this problem. I ran into it within a few hours getting my Mac. As far as I have read there are 4 types of people who have the new 2008 MAC PRO:

1> The people who put their Mac Pro to sleep and have this issue
2> The people who Shutdown so never have the problem
3> The people who always leave their computer on and never have the problem
4> The people that put their Mac into deep sleep "hibernate" mode to work around the issue

Does anyone out there have the new 2008 Mac Pro and not have the "reboot after sleep" issue???
Also if anyone has any suggestions please throw them my way. I'm not sure if my only option is to wait for 10.5.2, or if it worth making an appointment to get my system checked out, which I'll do if there are people with properly sleeping 2008 mac pros. Thanks. TIA

[Bigfoot]

The sleep issue I have encountered:

After hitting any key to wake>selecting an application from the dock opens the finder, not the app.

I have set my prefs to never sleep and unchecked sleep drives when possible.

I'm one of those who shuts down when I leave the house. After seeing an imac go up in smoke>flames> and then melt all over the desk at a friends house... I shut down and turn off the power strip.

10.5.1 is apparently bug laden. Lots of these things are supposed to addressed in 10.5.2 which is eminent... so I hear.

[Tesselator]

Yup, 10.5.1 is buggy. I have 12 OS bugs on report. the sleep bug would make 13 (for me). And these are all kinda severe - alike to the sleep bug(s).

[Samanoske]

same over here. Quit annoying ...

[ballison]

I dont have any problems...deep sleep powering down display the whole works...I haven't had a single problem except for maybe how much this thing cost me

[eggman]

Also seeing the sleep issue, dammit.

[danman]

Same problem here. There is a long thread in the discussions.apple.com Mac Pro forum.

[devastHB]

Thanks for the responses, since I have yet to hear of someone NOT having the issue, I guess I'll save myself a trip to the apple store and will just keep my fingers crossed for 10.5.2. I have to say, aside from the sleep issue, I'm completely lovin' my mac pro. It really is hard going back to my MBPro 2.16 c2duo after using this thing.

[zacharykrannert]

mine is having the same issues. it didnt start though until after i installed 4gbs of ram from owc.

[Meadowfield]

Originally Posted by zacharykrannert 

mine is having the same issues. it didnt start though until after i installed 4gbs of ram from owc.

I doubt it's the ram, Zach. There are too many of us with stock units having this problem.

[ChrisB]

This isn't a new problem. I have 3 MacPros from 2007, and a Quad G5 that all have sleep issues as well. The fan still wants to stay at "full blast" sometimes as well.

[dustrho]

I'm not sure if I'm experiencing the exact same problem as you guys are, but I just started having a somewhat similar problem late last week in which I can't get it out of sleep mode. The only way I can get it back on is if I hold the power button down, shut it completely off, and then turn it back on. It doesn't always do this to me, it's only done it twice out of several times of putting it to sleep. Has anyone experienced that yet?

[cube-dude]

Originally Posted by devastHB 

As far as I have read there are 4 types of people who have the new 2008 MAC PRO:

1> The people who put their Mac Pro to sleep and have this issue

Yes, ditto on my less-than-week-old Mac Pro. It's happened on at least three occasions, but not on every sleep occasion, which I find odd. An extra 2GB of third-party RAM is installed.

[devastHB]

Update to everyone... I sold the Apple 2x1Gig sticks on Ebay for $255, and replaced it with 2 more 2gig sticks for $230 from OWC, so now I have 8GB of OWC memory and no apple memory. I then reset the SMC, and did the PRAM reset.

So aside from getting more memory and 20 bux essentially for free, I haven't experienced the reboot on sleep issue I initially posted about!!!

Anyway... I will respond back to this thread if I have the issue again,but if i never do, then it means "so far, so good."

-J

[Ph.D.]

Sleep problems here, too.

Usually (not always) it will reboot upon wake from sleep. Once it came up with a blank screen and I had to manually force a reboot via the on-button.

It's quite frustrating and I certainly hope that 10.5.2 will fix this!

[zacharykrannert]

Originally Posted by Meadowfield 

I doubt it's the ram, Zach. There are too many of us with stock units having this problem.

yeah, i don't think it was the ram just stating. I have also had the problem where I have to manually turn the comptuer off and then back on. Hopefully it gets fixed in 10.5.2

[cube-dude]

Originally Posted by danman 

There is a long thread in the discussions.apple.com Mac Pro forum.

Linky linky. Left feedback earlier today and suggest everyone here do the same.

[zacharykrannert]

Still have the problem with 10.5.2. I really hate this problem and need to get it resolved so I can sleep the damn mac pro.

[Ph.D.]

I still have the problem after 10.5.2, like others.

I agree that it is a very annoying issue. Apple should take care of this immediately. Their silence on these sorts of issues is quite shameful.

[MallyMal]

I don't have the issue anymore. I had it before but I did the PRAM/SMC(this was 3 weeks ago) thing and that fixed it for me. I have a 2.8Ghz single quad. I was running 10.5.1 when I did the fix. I'm now on 10.5.2 and everything is still fine. I have the sleep hard disks option checked and have no problems.

[aehaas]

New machine today with octa-3.0, 8800 and 8 gig Apple OEM RAM and 10.5.2. The machine aways restarts on waking from sleep.

aehaas

[aehaas]

I just did the PRAM/SMC reset too, just after talking to Apple and so far so good.

aehaas

[hwdbrit]

My re-boot from sleep issue (which I had from day one with my 2 x 4 x 2.8Ghz MacPro) was resolved by installing a new hard drive this weekend, with a fresh install of Leopard updated to 10.5.2