[Uisce]

Hey all

Twice now, my new 12"PB has frozen when I close the lid to put it to sleep. The flourescents in the monitor go dark, but the system is locked up (you can kind of see it on the monitor). The only way to resolve this is to hold the power button down for 5 sec to shut the computer down.

When the power button is pressed again, the system gets to the grey screen where diagnostics are run, it runs for a lil bit, and then the computer restarts and boots normally.

Besides the "why is it freezing" question, what is going on that my computer is rebooting itself like this? I am running 10.2.6; I was told to post this here instead of the OSX forum.

[Karim]

I can answer your second question:

The reason that when you restart after holding the power button down and it begins to startup then does another restart is that the computer is actually fsck'ing your hard drive checking for directory corruption and when done starts up again with a clean directory.

Your holding down the power button is forcing a restart and leaving the hard drive in a "dirty" state. Then the computer starts up and fsck's the drive cleaning it up, then it restarts again with a "clean" drive.

As for your lockups, it could be many different things. Your best bet may be to just reinstall OSX which probably will take less time than trying to diagnose the problem. One thing you could look for is any recently installed drivers and/or utillities which could be interrupting the sleep routines.