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Powerbook crashes when trying to sleep
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Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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I have a 1.67GHz 17" powerbook G4 (the current model). I have 2Gb of Crucial RAM in it. I have been having two ongoing issues:
1. It takes close to 40-60 seconds for my machine to go into sleep
2. About 1 in 5 times when I put it to sleep (by closing the lid) it doesn't go to sleep and after 2-3 minutes it just shuts down. When I restart the clock is reset.
I have had the machine in to Apple and there are no hardware issues. I have tried the PRAM reset and a reinstall of the OS without success. Is anyone else having a similar issue? Anyone got any ideas on what else I could try?
David
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I have the same model PBook with the same issue. I say "issue" because #1 is normal activity: Starting with the DL powerbooks with the Safe Sleep feature, the contents of main memory are saved to the hard disk before sleeping, in case of total power loss.
But, I have noticed #2, and it's also intermittent as you describe (not sure if it's 1 in 5 or not, seems less frequent than that for me). I've tried a power manager reset, but don't think it helped.
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Originally Posted by chromos
I have the same model PBook with the same issue. I say "issue" because #1 is normal activity: Starting with the DL powerbooks with the Safe Sleep feature, the contents of main memory are saved to the hard disk before sleeping, in case of total power loss.
Is that really true? I don't have one of the newer PowerBooks so I don't have any first-hand experience with this, but I always thought safe sleep was more of an option and not something that replaced normal sleep.
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Originally Posted by Icruise
Is that really true? I don't have one of the newer PowerBooks so I don't have any first-hand experience with this, but I always thought safe sleep was more of an option and not something that replaced normal sleep.
Ya, it's right here, straight from the mothership.
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I am having the exact same problem with it shutting down/crashing after closing the lid -- clock reset and all. This has caused me to re-think the whole way I "sleep" my computer. Since I make my living developing FileMaker databases, I have to be extra careful not to leave one open when I put the PowerBook in sleep mode, as crashing it will corrupt the database. This is completely counterintuitive to the whole idea of putting the Mac to sleep. I might as well be shutting down.
Apple was not able to successfully diagnose this issue? This is dispiriting to me. I think I am going to give it a try, and see if I can get a replacement powerBook if they can't fix this one.
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