[G4] Sleep = Coma a Software or Hardware Issue?

[Mel Krewall]

Do you have any PCI cards in your machine? I know the FireWire card I 
used for a while was problematic with Deep Sleep. xlr8yourmac.com has 
reports of various cards on whether the will/will not work well with 
Sleep.
Mel

"May thy ball lie in green pastures - and not in still waters."
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On Nov 15, 2004, at 12:19 PM, Richard M. Kriss wrote:

> I have read the recent postings about the pulsing heartbeat light 
> indicating
> the Mac is sleeping.  I have not used the Apple 'Sleep' command for 
> months
> because it puts my G4-450 AGP into a hard coma .... defined as a 
> prolonged
> state of deep unconsciousness. I can put the G4 to sleep by using the
> 'Sleep' command under the Apple menu. The problem is the heartbeat 
> thing
> does not pulse and I cannot wake it up. The only way to wake it from 
> the
> deep coma 'sleep' is to restart.
>
> I have no idea if this is a hardware or software issue.  Yes, I have 
> the
> latest firmware and I am using 10.3.6. I don't know if there is a fix 
> for
> this design defect so I just don't use the useless sleep.
>
> The G4 is shut down at the end of each day.  Sometimes the shut down 
> command
> seems to work but I later find it has come back on and entered the 
> deep coma
> mode requiring a restart.
>
> I am clueless on how to fix these issues and have just learned to live 
> with
> them.
>
> Dick
>
>
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