Wake from sleep help in 10.1

Oct 21, '01 10:25:54AM

Contributed by: robg

Prior to the release of 10.1, my G4 with an Adaptec card would not sleep at all. It was greyed out in both the Energy Saver and the Apple menu. With 10.1, though, it's now possible (although this is still not the 'deep' sleep of a non-Adaptec machine).

Sometimes though, especially if the machine has been sleeping a long time (overnight), when I return and try moving the mouse or hitting the keyboard to wake the machine up, nothing happens. The first time this happened, I thouhgt I'd crashed so I went and pressed the power button on the front of the machine. I didn't hold it in long enough, though, so I was about to press it again when I saw the screen come back to life.

So if you have an apparently dead sleeping machine, try touching (briefly) the power button and see if it awakens your machine. This has worked for me every time I've used it, and it also worked on a friend's G4 (also with an Adaptec card). It seems that sleep mode puts our USB keyboards and mice so far into sleep that they aren't even listening for activity. The power button, though, gets the machine's attention.

This fix may not work for everyone who's having wake from sleep issues, but it's at least worth a try.

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