[Editor's note: Wish I could help verify this, but I use a SCSI card, so I can't sleep the machine!]
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My iMac would never sleep with the sleep options set in Prefs Panel. However, by simply choosing BLACK BASIC in the Screen Savers pref panel, now the iMac spins down HD after 5min and full pulsating sleep after 10min of inactivity. It seems running regular Screen savers keeps the video card busy and interferes with normal operations.. this is a G3 400DV, 320mb RAM, 10gb HD, stock.
[Editor's note: Wish I could help verify this, but I use a SCSI card, so I can't sleep the machine!]
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Sleep battery drain cure too..
Yes, this is the cure for the infamous battery drain while in sleep mode. People install CPU-intensive screen savers like the Maya screen saver and wonder why their battery gets drained. Unfortunately, I don't think Basic Black is part of the standard MacOS X install, it's a 3rd party screensaver and probably available at the standard archives like stepwise.org. It appears that many of the wake from sleep kernel panics are due to bad code in the "Basic" (not Basic Black) screensaver, I've only encountered a panic when using Basic, it ended with my switch to Basic Black.
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I have found that for the system to sleep using the Pref panel , you must not have mail open. |
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