[G4] Insomniac Sawtooth

[CJ Scaminaci]

It's the SCSI card...I have the same machine. It's the SCSI card...

CJ
On Sunday, October 19, 2003, at 02:50  PM, Jim Robertson wrote:

> I have a 450 MHz G4 AGP "Sawtooth" that I've never been able to get to
> sleep. Out of the box, it did sleep, but when I installed an internal 1
> Gbyte Jaz cartridge drive attached to an Adaptec 29160 SCSI PCI card, 
> the
> computer would always jump back to alert immediately after the fan spun
> down. I always attributed this to the Jaz Drive. Today I finally 
> decided to
> fix this, so I opened the case and unplugged the Jaz data cable.
>
> No luck. Each time I tell the computer to sleep, the fans and drives 
> spin
> down and the main power-on LED changes transiently from green to 
> amber, but
> then the power LED returns to green AND the activity light on the Jaz
> flashes.
>
> Another trip back inside, disconnect the Jaz drive's power cable. No 
> luck
> (of course the Jaz drive's activity light no longer flashes, but 
> that's the
> only change).
>
> SO...
>
> I completely remove the 29160 SCSI card (which is supposed to be 
> compatible
> with deep sleep, by the way), and the machine STILL won't stay asleep.
>
> I have OS X 10.2.8 with all current updates installed on this machine.
> There's NOTHING on the external USB bus except keyboard and mouse. 
> There's
> an iSight camera on one of the FireWire ports.
>
> I'll try cycling the CUDA switch on the motherboard to see if that 
> helps.
> Does anyone have any other ideas?
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Jim Robertson
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