[kdixey]

I had this occur just last night... I had my ibook sitting on the couch, I got up to change my son and when I got back I noticed it was just starting to wink off to go to sleep. I picked up the computer and could not wake it up at all. I tried everything but nothing seemed to work. I eventually had to remove the freakin' battery. After that it started up fine.

Has anyone else experienced something like this?

The ibook is the latest model 14" 1 ghz w/256mbRAM (more on the way). Is this something that has shown up before and I just missed it? I did a search on these forums but didn't find anything that seemed applicable. I set the display/sleep for 1 and 2 minutes respectively for a test and it seemed to wake up without a problem, so I set it back to 30 and 45 minutes and have been going about my business.

The reason I am so curious about this is that I have only had it a few days and if it is something that has been identified as a hardware problem I'll drive back to the Apple Store and swap it for another one.

Thanks in advance.

[BobVB]

I've had that happen on my iBooks rarely. Not sure why but its quite rare and in my case just situation dependent. Give it some time - if its happening a lot take it back.

Oh and I've never found a situation where I couldn't shut down the iBook by just pressing and holding the power button down for 5 seconds or so. Much easier than removing the battery.

[sniffer]

Happen to me as well *checks uptime* for one day and ten hours ago. It was dry on battery, plugged in the power cord, and boom - nothing. It was like it was between getting net power and wanting to wake up from sleep from batteries, but of course it didn't manage it, so it just died. I just turned it on, and it was o-k again. It has happen to me before, but never in Panther. The log files didn't say much except it couldn't reach my cisco vpn driver. I would assume it means that it didn't manage to boot up the hard drive or something. BTW: My machine is over two y.o.

[gioele]

Originally posted by kdixey:
I noticed it was just starting to wink off to go to sleep. I picked up the computer and could not wake it up at all. I tried everything but nothing seemed to work.

Has anyone else experienced something like this?

My friend's iBook G4 showed the same behavior twice this week.

• iBook goes to sleep
• he plugs in the power coords
• the iBook stops to sleep (no blinking light) but remain black
• he must reset

He is starting to worry now...