Problems awakening from sleep

  1. P K - 16 February 2005

    System: G4 400 AGP with MacOS X 10.3.7
    I've noticed that I have trouble awakening from sleep.

    It does one of the three things:
    1) wakes up but the clock in the menu bar is frozen
    (the optional clock in the separate window works)
    2) the desktop appears but the mouse/keyboard is frozen
    3) the desktop appears briefly then flashes to gray.

    Is this a software problem, or power supply or pram battery?

    Thanks
    --Paul

  2. matt neuburg - 16 February 2005

    I'm thinking it might be software or software / firmware, because I'm seeing lot of reports of this kind of thing on a lot of different machines. m.

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  3. Erik - 16 February 2005

    Just for the record, my 700 Mhz eMac (thats had every sys update since it was new), has never had any sleep/wake issues of any description.

    I use sleep all the time too... only shutting down once a week, unless something out of the ordinary comes up.

    However, I too have heard some people have problems with it.

    Erik

  4. M-M - 17 February 2005

    I have a G4/233 that also will not wake from sleep no matter what I try.

    m-m

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