[G4] Re: Sleep Causes Crash

Richard Bullen bullen.r at comcast.net
Mon Oct 23 06:30:52 PDT 2006


> > Symptoms:
> > 
> > Put the system to sleep using the top left apple menu.
> > 
> > Subsequently hit a key to wake up the system. Screen display comes 
> back,
> > but the keys and mouse are no longer being read by the computer. The
> > only solution appears to be shutting down the system. However, if
the
> > restart is not done with the shift key held down it appears that the
> > system hangs during reboot and never comes to life.
> > Following the safe reboot I can reboot the system and everything
comes
> > up as expected.
> > 
> > 
> > What I've tried (shots in the dark)
> > 1. Repairing permissions
> > 2. Booting from a different hard drive and running disk warrior
> > 
> > Characteristics:
> > 
> > 10.4.8
> > G4 867 dual, with 2G ram and 250G HD
> > 
> > Screen energy saver set to:
> > Display sleeps after 10 min
> > Computer sleeps after 20 min.
> > Frequently I find these do not take effect.
> > 
> > 
> > Does anyone have any suggestions regarding a possible cause?
> 
> 
> Do you have any PCI-USB card or s.e. installed?
> 
> Jo Hissel


There are no additional cards in the machine.

Apologies but what is "s.e."?

Thx.

RB


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