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One solution to no-wake-from-sleep on 10.3.9
Authored by: DHB on Jul 24, '06 11:20:51AM

Your computer is awake, is has just turned it's screen off. Basically it thinks that it is running closed, with an external keyboard and monitor attached. Typically this happens when you have attached or removed USB devices right when your machine was going to sleep or waking up from sleep.

You just need to put the laptop asleep, disconnect all USB devices, and then wake it up again. The fastest way to put it to sleep when the screen is off is to press command+option+eject. You do NOT need to reboot the machine by holding down the power button ... and thus loosing all your work.

Macintosh laptops will immediately go to sleep if their power cord is disconnected when they are running closed while attached to an external keyboard and monitor. Your hint takes advantage of this. cmd+opt+eject would work just as well.

All of this is true for 10.4.x as well as 10.3



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