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jay3ld · Apr 26, 2005, 08:34 PM

one of my macs (older version of g4) will sometimes go to sleep and not wake up.
i have done a clean full reinstall of it and still does it to me.
could it be bad wiring? or a system glitch?

ps. i have to hold down the button on the cpu unit because nothing responses.

V · Apr 26, 2005, 09:20 PM

I've had this problem since 10.1 (dual 500 GigE).

I've never been able to link the problem with an application open before going to sleep. 5% of my deep sleeps becomes sleep of death.

jay3ld · Apr 26, 2005, 11:42 PM

you get it fixed? or know how?

windsurfer_nyc · Apr 27, 2005, 09:23 AM

I usually put my G5 Dual 2.0 to sleep overnight. Since 10.3.9, however, I've twice come in the morning to find it frozen in sleep, with the fans roaring at top speed. The only remedy is holding the power button for 10 seconds to shut it off.

V · Apr 27, 2005, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by jay3ld

you get it fixed? or know how?

No sorry.

starman · Apr 27, 2005, 11:28 AM

Originally Posted by windsurfer_nyc

I usually put my G5 Dual 2.0 to sleep overnight. Since 10.3.9, however, I've twice come in the morning to find it frozen in sleep, with the fans roaring at top speed. The only remedy is holding the power button for 10 seconds to shut it off.

That happened to me once on my work machine, and one on my home machine, but only once on each. No idea why, and both were running 10.3.2.

Mike

jay3ld · Apr 28, 2005, 06:34 PM

Originally Posted by windsurfer_nyc

I usually put my G5 Dual 2.0 to sleep overnight. Since 10.3.9, however, I've twice come in the morning to find it frozen in sleep, with the fans roaring at top speed. The only remedy is holding the power button for 10 seconds to shut it off.

yea i had that happen right after a power failure (my fault i flipped wrong fuse). so my macs are set to come on after a power failure and our pc does. so the whole room just lights up as 3 monitors, 1 big printer, a cable modem, switch, print hub, and cordless phone all come online at once. it was cool.
but my macs were roaring and the monitor didnt move from the gray screen. so i held the restart and they started up in 10 secs after that.

do the people at apple know this?

i would like it fixed. but it only happens on my older version of g4 mac. the other g4 i got is was a newer version and runs nice.

Marv · Apr 28, 2005, 06:44 PM

Originally Posted by windsurfer_nyc

I usually put my G5 Dual 2.0 to sleep overnight. Since 10.3.9, however, I've twice come in the morning to find it frozen in sleep, with the fans roaring at top speed. The only remedy is holding the power button for 10 seconds to shut it off.

Yes, I get the same thing and I have the same equipment and OS.

Many times it works fine, but some times, no dice.

Marv

Chuckit · Apr 28, 2005, 07:13 PM

It sounds like this may be a hardware issue. It's strange to think the OS would make the computer freak out randomly in the middle of sleeping, when the OS basically isn't doing anything. (Not saying it isn't the OS. Just that it seems kind of counterintuitive.)

V · Apr 28, 2005, 08:52 PM

In my case the computer doesn't seem to be crashed, it's just the screen who just wkae up. If I shut it off and on it just go back to sleep mode.

jay3ld · Apr 28, 2005, 10:00 PM

hmm i should check that monitor thing next time it does it. maybe the 17 inch monitor dont like being on long.

jay3ld · Apr 30, 2005, 12:00 PM

um. i just tried that thing and its not the monitor.

workerbee · May 1, 2005, 02:15 PM

I had this spleep of death syndrome on my PowerBook for a long time... it disappeared after one of the last 10.3.x updates. However, it's now back with 10.4

Tsilou B. · May 1, 2005, 02:32 PM

Is there a way to disable sleep altogether?
I have a PowerMac that does never wake up, too. Of course, I have disabled auto-sleep, but sometimes, out of habit, I put the Mac to sleep and almost immediately regret it, because a second later I remember that I will now have to restart and my unsaved work is lost.
Can I prevent the Mac from "going to sleep" even when I tell it to sleep now? Or is there a way to "insert" a dialog box just like the one for shutdown/restart/logout that will ask for confirmation before the Mac "goes to sleep".

jay3ld · May 3, 2005, 06:44 PM

k well thanks for the help here. after hours of messing around with my firewire connected i had to it i got it to boot by it self and some scary screens came up (the folder with the blinking ?)

but i got it all fixed i think. i hope.....

Chuckit · May 3, 2005, 07:03 PM

Originally Posted by Tsilou B.

Is there a way to disable sleep altogether?

Try SleepLess. I think it can completely disable sleep.

leperkuhn · May 3, 2005, 11:17 PM

do you have any pci cards installed? i have the same issue.. it sucks.

Tsilou B. · May 4, 2005, 03:55 AM

Originally Posted by Chuckit

Try SleepLess. I think it can completely disable sleep.

Thanks! I'll try it.

jay3ld · May 7, 2005, 05:16 PM

Originally Posted by leperkuhn

do you have any pci cards installed? i have the same issue.. it sucks.

um theres a scsi card installed
and a 4 port usb 2.0 with 2 port firewire 800 port card installed also.
the usb card seems to run fine. the scsi i dont know about i cant find anything that it plugs into.
theres only install software for the scsi card

jay3ld · May 9, 2005, 09:55 PM

removed the firewire +usb card from the system and it fixed my kernal panic errors i have been having. ill see tomorrow if the sleep of death on my mac is now dead!

cant belive one.... 1 card i had in there before without errors now giving me error.
i got no warrienty on it i think so ill just spend 25 at staples and get a new one with install disc maybe

hubertusbreuer · May 14, 2005, 10:32 AM

I have had the the same or at least similar problem on my less than three week old Powerbook 12, 1.5 GHZ with Tiger - unresponsive black screen that does not wake from sleep. It disappeared after I reinstalled Tiger.

I also disabled "Little Snitch", which controls software contact with the web. Reason: I have put Screen Savers put to random selection, one of the screensavers connects to the internet, choosing news... that might have been a problem, as activating this screen saver in sleep might have triggered Little Snitch to seek Internet Access permission, which in turn I could not give as the the computer was in sleep mode. But that might also be totally unrelated, as this problem seems less specific as this scenario - and pretty widespread.

I was kind of annoyed by Apple Costumer Service, which did not really acknowledge that this seems to be a rather common problem.