[X4U] G5 going to sleep intermittantly

[Nick Scalise]

On Jun 6, 2008, at 8:23 PM, Ed Gould wrote:

> I have a G5 which seems to go to sleep vary intermittently and can  
> not figure out why.
>
> The first example is when I run my back ups I *MUST* move the cursor  
> every 30 minutes or so or else the backup will stop. Of course the  
> minute I move the mouse  it starts back up again.
> There are several programs running at the time like BOINC and a  
> weather program that does a net inquiry every 10 minutes or so.
>
> At night I leave my system running all the time and getting mail  
> every 10 minutes and a news reader that runs every 60 minutes  the  
> going to sleep has only occurred once in the 2 years I have been  
> doing this.

How dusty are the insides? If the machine is getting to warm, it will  
want to sleep.

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Nick Scalise
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