[G4] G4 MDD won't wake up

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I would say that frequent Kernel Panics are a sign that you need to  
completely reinstall your OS, but then again, I'm not a UNIX expert.  
That's what I would do.





On Sep 13, 2007, at 11:55 AM, Harold Polk wrote:

> I have a G4 MDD that has trouble waking up after going to sleep  
> either time out or manual.  However, if I only let the display go  
> to sleep, 20 minutes, and keep the computer running, preference set  
> to "never," it works fine, the display wakes up every time.
> I have done the following:
>
> 1. all the maintenance procedures, daily, weekly and monthly.  
> cleaned the caches.
> 2. zapped the pram
> 3. reset the PMU
> 4. removed the battery and left it out for over 30 minutes. then  
> replaced the battery, and reset the PMU.  Battery voltage is 3.6  
> volts.
> 5. replaced the graphics card with one that is known to work.
>
> No additional PCI cards.
> The memory sticks are the original 245megs from Apple
> 3- 512 megs Kingston sticks
> All memory seems to check out with the memory checkers.
> I do occasional get kernal panics.
>
> The problem presists.
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Harold
>
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