Beige G3 w/OS X won't wake up

After the Mac screensaver has activated and been on for about 20 minutes or so, I usually can't wake up the system.
Sofa Slug wrote on :

After the Mac screensaver has activated and been on for about 20 minutes = or so, I usually can't wake up the system. The screensaver will continue = to "run" normally (using "Flurry"), or the display will freeze (using = "Beach", "Cosmos", or "Forest"). In all cases, I have to reboot to get = the machine to respond.=20

Is there a fix for this? ...maybe a third party screensaver or = something? (Zapped the PRAM, and OS X has been re-installed, but this = did not help).

System specs:

Beige G3 w/Power Logics G4 450 upgrade (running @redacted.invalid 433 MHz). OS X Jaguar (10.2.8, 6R73), w/ OS 9 on 2nd partition. Viewsonic A75f monitor. Stock video card. USB (and firewire) cards. 512 Mb memory. Personality card: audio.

TIA,

-S

Joel Farris replied on :

Sofa Slug wrote:

After the Mac screensaver has activated and been on for about 20 minutes or so, I usually can't wake up the system. The screensaver will continue to "run" normally (using "Flurry"), or the display will freeze (using "Beach", "Cosmos", or "Forest"). In all cases, I have to reboot to get the machine to respond.

Is there a fix for this? ...maybe a third party screensaver or something? (Zapped the PRAM, and OS X has been re-installed, but this did not help).

System specs:

Beige G3 w/Power Logics G4 450 upgrade (running @redacted.invalid 433 MHz). OS X Jaguar (10.2.8, 6R73), w/ OS 9 on 2nd partition. Viewsonic A75f monitor. Stock video card. USB (and firewire) cards. 512 Mb memory. Personality card: audio.

TIA,

-S

Do you by any chance have an unregistered shareware program installed? I've seen a couple of instances where a "purchase me now" message interrupted the release of the Apple screensaver.

Sofa Slug replied on :

"Joel Farris" this.is.not@redacted.invalid wrote :

Sofa Slug wrote:

After the screensaver has activated, I usually can't wake up the = system.=20

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Is there a fix for this? ...

=20 =20 Do you by any chance have an unregistered shareware program installed? = I've=20 seen a couple of instances where a "purchase me now" message = interrupted=20 the release of the Apple screensaver. --=20 Joel Farris =20

No... all the programs on the machine are commercial versions.

Thanks,

-S

Isaac Wingfield replied on :

In article d1gaei$aqq$1@redacted.invalid, "Sofa Slug" sofaslug_SPAMNOT@redacted.invalid wrote:

After the Mac screensaver has activated and been on for about 20 minutes or so, I usually can't wake up the system. The screensaver will continue to "run" normally (using "Flurry"), or the display will freeze (using "Beach", "Cosmos", or "Forest"). In all cases, I have to reboot to get the machine to respond.

Happens to me, too, from time to time, on the same hardware, but with OS9. No clue what makes it happen.

Isaac

Cathy Stevenson replied on :

In article d1gaei$aqq$1@redacted.invalid, Sofa Slug sofaslug_SPAMNOT@redacted.invalid wrote:

After the Mac screensaver has activated and been on for about 20 minutes or so, I usually can't wake up the system. The screensaver will continue to "run" normally (using "Flurry"), or the display will freeze (using "Beach", "Cosmos", or "Forest"). In all cases, I have to reboot to get the machine to respond.

Is there a fix for this? ...maybe a third party screensaver or something? (Zapped the PRAM, and OS X has been re-installed, but this did not help).

System specs:

Beige G3 w/Power Logics G4 450 upgrade (running @redacted.invalid 433 MHz). OS X Jaguar (10.2.8, 6R73), w/ OS 9 on 2nd partition. Viewsonic A75f monitor. Stock video card. USB (and firewire) cards. 512 Mb memory. Personality card: audio.

TIA,

-S

Macfixit reported that for some people the cause was setting the Energy Saver to "Never". Setting the Energy Saver to a specific time prevented the coma.

Cathy