Sleep prevention due to screensavers

May 01, '01 10:40:41PM

Contributed by: Soda

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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