Hi Dan, I also have a G4 MDD and went through a lot of problems with shutting down and sleeping. I am using a VGA monitor that I had with my other G4 "Yikes" and tried using it with my new (to me) G4 MDD but I couldn't get it to shutdown or sleep without powering down with a power strip. I found out by purchasing a ADC to VGA Extractor adapter I now have solved all those problems. Hope this is of some help to you and anyone else who have VGA monitor problems. Rich -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 519 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/g4/attachments/20050630/ebeb0ed3/attachment.bin