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Daniel Bayer · May 23, 2005, 08:06 AM

Well,

I have been running 10.4.1 on my PBG4 1.33 for almost a week now and love it.
I also installed PS CS2 and it seems to work great in the new environment sans an occasional,
"Unexpectedly quit" message on start up if I drag an item to it to start it up.

The big problem I have is that it consistently has a blank screen when I open the lid if it has been asleep for over a 1/2 hour. I have to do a forced re-start to get it back up.

I did a complete clean install of everything, first time since I bought the PB back in September of 2003.

I have since done the usual permission repair, zapped the P-ram and reset the PMU but that is it.

Any ideas????

workerbee · May 23, 2005, 09:08 AM

Originally Posted by Daniel Bayer

The big problem I have is that it consistently has a blank screen when I open the lid if it has been asleep for over a 1/2 hour. I have to do a forced re-start to get it back up.

I did a complete clean install of everything, first time since I bought the PB back in September of 2003.

I have since done the usual permission repair, zapped the P-ram and reset the PMU but that is it.

Any ideas????

No idea at all, I'm afraid.
I went through exactly the same on my 17" PB. In the end I concluded it must be the new 2 x 1GB RAM sticks I'd put into the PB, so I removed them. All was well again, as the PB reliably came back from slumber. Updated to 10.4.1, and wanted to give the shiny new 2 GB a last test/farewell before sending them back over the Atlantic. For whatever Voodoo reason, the 2 GB have been working almost perfectly since then. I had 2 or 3 wake-from-sleep black screens since then, and one really nice full kernel crash (black screen variant, yummy!), when before I had an almost 100% failure rate of wake-from-sleep.

Daniel Bayer · May 23, 2005, 04:54 PM

Ram sticks??? I have been running 2 GB for months now with no problems..

I ran Disk Warrior 3.0.3 and re-built the directories.

I shut off weather pop, mail, airport before closing the lid and it still did it.
Nothing connected to the outside world.....

I see more energy saver crap popping up here.

I wonder if it is dashboard?

Bring on 10.4.2

Daniel Bayer · May 24, 2005, 11:58 AM

It's the dashbaord widgets!!!

I had a battery capacity, aircraft weather and a couple other third party widgets in place so I removed them from the P-List and restarted, VIOLA!!

I even left mail, weather pop and a couple other network related things up to check it and.....

No more wakeup problems.........so far.

Bring on 10.4.2

toby fernsler · May 24, 2005, 12:28 PM

I discovered my problem was that the screen brightness was being reset to its lowest setting while asleep. Raise the brightness(F2) and all is well.

workerbee · May 24, 2005, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by Daniel Bayer

Ram sticks??? I have been running 2 GB for months now with no problems..

(snip)

I wonder if it is dashboard?

Hmm... well, it certainly is not Dashboard here -- haven't touched it (or a widget) since clean-installing 10.4.

My RAM was beginning to act up again yesterday. Sent it back today -- probably too late for the RMA, so it'll be a total loss. No problem of any kind yet with the old 2 x 512MB sticks.

Daniel Bayer · May 28, 2005, 07:33 PM

Sh@t....still blank screen on wakeup after 30+ minutes.

Bummer...

sandman · May 29, 2005, 02:49 PM

I'm having the same problem. And it is definitely a bug in 10.4.1 because I did a clean install thinking it was a problem with my upgrade to Tiger, and all was well for two days until I installed the 10.4.1 upgrade, and the first time I let it sleep for awhile the blank screen happened. Adjusting brightness does nothing. This is a serious bug. I've told apple, have you?

Daniel Bayer · Jul 5, 2005, 12:07 PM

Well here it is early July and still no fix for my blank screen problem.

I think I am going back to 10.3.9 since I have *NEVER* had a single problem until this OS.

I have totally had it, I will see if they fix it in 10.4.2 and if not, I will go back and then ask for my money back.

Sophus · Jul 5, 2005, 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by toby fernsler

I discovered my problem was that the screen brightness was being reset to its lowest setting while asleep. Raise the brightness(F2) and all is well.

I had this happening last friday. First time for me. It looked blank, i.e. not on, but it was just no backlight. I freaked and thought my backlight was dead. A restart fixed it, but no backlight untill it had booted to the login window. Probably something to do with PMU or whatever it's called. Haven't experienced it before or after.