<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Suddenly, after long months of letting my Ti 500 sleep when not using it, I lost sound. In Prefs it says no input or output devices. Otherwise the Ti works fine. The usual repair attempts failed. <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Milan<BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 21, 2005, at 12:00 PM, <A href="mailto:x4u-request@listserver.themacintoshguy.com">x4u-request@listserver.themacintoshguy.com</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Geneva">On Jun 21, 2005, at 12:32 PM, Samantha Cornell wrote:</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Geneva; min-height: 19.0px"><BR></P> <BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Geneva">This raises a good question.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Is it indeed necessary to shut down <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Geneva">to transport a laptop?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I am personally referring to a G4 iBook, <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Geneva">but I'm assuming that whatever the answer, it holds true for all <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Geneva">the portables.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 14.0px Geneva; min-height: 19.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Geneva">Any experts care to weigh in?</FONT></P> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Geneva; min-height: 19.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Geneva">Not sure I qualify as an expert. But, I have been using PowerBooks <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Geneva">for a number of years and I transport my PowerBook while it's <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Geneva">sleeping daily and never Shutdown. I haven't experienced any problems <SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Geneva">from this.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Geneva; min-height: 19.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Geneva" size="4" style="font: 14.0px Geneva">Daniel</FONT></P> <BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>