Well, I guess everyone is trying to prevent you from running into the issue in the first place.. But for the hell of it I tried it - turned on Password required when waking from sleep - slept my book, waked it - up came the password request - closed my lid.. Click click went the HD, then it went back to sleep. Tried the same thing with a usb device.. Slept the book, closed the lid and pulled out my mouse usb connector. Woke up.. Click click.. Back to sleep. Perhaps you need a re-install? You're on 10.3? On 11/26/03 3:07 PM, "Robert Nicholson" <robert at elastica.com> wrote: > Yes I am aware of this but that doesn't mean that the machine should > not go back to sleep just because someone is being prompted for a > password. > > On Nov 25, 2003, at 3:10 PM, S. Moussly wrote: > >> Why do you put the laptop to sleep then close the lid? closing the lid >> automatically puts it to sleep. >> >> On 11/25/03 11:51 PM, "Robert Nicholson" <robert at elastica.com> paused, >> thought it over, and wrote: >> >>> Today I did the following. >>> >>> Put the computer to sleep then close the computer's lid which >>> subsequently awakes the computer. Normally this isn't a problem as it >>> should go back to sleep however if you have password when awake from >>> sleep it doesn't appear to sleep again >>> until you've entered in your password. thus keeping power to your >>> screen whilst >>> it's closed. That is generally not a good thing. >>> Bill Reburn, MGDC MB Chapter