Problems awakening from sleep

the desktop appears but the mouse/keyboard is frozen
P K wrote on :

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

matt neuburg replied on :

P K pakob@redacted.invalid wrote:

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?

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.

Erik replied on :

In article 1gs36ix.dq6pcf1vf2dtqN%matt@redacted.invalid, matt@redacted.invalid (matt neuburg) wrote:

P K pakob@redacted.invalid wrote:

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?

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.

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

M-M replied on :

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

m-m