Dual Quad-core Mac Pro reboots from sleep

What is Apple's stance on this? It seems like a huge error that encompasses many, if not all, Early 2008 Mac Pros.

Someone should email Steve and see if he is aware of this problem.

First post is dated January 21 so Apple's stance is... iPhone

I agree, it's really pathetic.

Enjoy my six thousand dollars, Apple. :[

yvonnejim wrote:
I put this post up on the main board. Just wondering if anybody has tried it earlier, and what results?

Decided to call Apple myself about this issue.

He said to reset Power Management by:

Go to Mac HD/lib/pref/System Configuration folder/then trash com.apple.PowerManagement.

Has anyone tried this yet? I did and it seems to be working, but no long sleeps yet.

I tried it and I just had another restart on wake so nothing doing here.

V.K. wrote:

sam1974 wrote:
I was wondering why you would want to put the computer to sleep overnight?

just that it starts up quicker. That's all. I NEVER had any sleep issues with any of my macs before so I thought nothing of it.

Why not just shut it down and then in the morning switch it back on? Are there benefits to putting it to sleep apart from a quicker switch on time.

It makes a lot of sense to shut down at night. Boot vs wake from sleep is only about 15 seconds longer for me ... yet my Mac Pro system consumes 36 watts of power in sleep mode (measured via UPS power draw meter), including the few watts drawn by the power brick for my monitor. 36 watts is a lot when multiplied by 10 to 16 hours and then by millions of computers! Like the equivalent of a power plant.

No additional wear and tear on components: the hard disks are shut down during sleep anyway and whether memory and network adapters have power or not does not affect their longevity.

Cheers,
Karl

It's the 2600XT, that's the problem. Just talked to Applecare today after my replacement for my 4 time repair machine was replaced with the stock Mac Pro and was exhibiting the sleep and artifacting problems. They said it was a known issue that the stock 2600XT card was indeed causing problems.

Interesting...I have the 2600HD, and have the reboot-on-wake issue; but I do NOT (touch wood) have any graphic issues. ???

Wonder if the two are connected...or if some computers have 2600 problems, some have reboot-on-wake problems, and some have both????

Fair enough....
but it should still work 😉

d

Yes, but what about all of us ( me ) with the 8800 card, and the same problem?

Emery Martin1 wrote:
It's the 2600XT, that's the problem. Just talked to Applecare today after my replacement for my 4 time repair machine was replaced with the stock Mac Pro and was exhibiting the sleep and artifacting problems. They said it was a known issue that the stock 2600XT card was indeed causing problems.

Emery Martin1 wrote:
It's the 2600XT, that's the problem. Just talked to Applecare today after my replacement for my 4 >time repair machine was replaced with the stock Mac Pro and was exhibiting the sleep and artifacting >problems. They said it was a known issue that the stock 2600XT card was indeed causing problems.

Okay, so what do we DO about it? Wait, I guess.

Really?
New piece of the puzzle if what they said was correct.
I assume you mean the Kernel panic though - it certainly is not related to the sleep / reboot issue as system with the 8800 Card (and in fact, even the elusive Quadro) are having the sleep issues just the same...

cheers

My Mac Pro has stock GT8800 and I still have the restart-on-wake problem.
After reading through a lot of posts in this thread it's obvious to me that none of the people at Apple care or mac geniuses have any idea what's causing this and how to fix it.

Same problem here.

restart from sleep.

Mac PRo 2.8 GHz octo. 2 GB stock RAM plus 4x 2GB owc 800MHZ chips. 8800 GT. Two Raid 0 of 2 disks each (4 seagate 750GB 7200.11). Either two 23" or 23 & 30.
I changed the RAM to no avail (for other reasons, fear not 😉
what's plugged in? ethernet, kb and mouse. and at present nothing else.
10.5.2 all updates applied.

FIY

Ermmm.. max-pol, it could be your RAID drives.. the fatal clue is here, on the specs for the MacPro.

http://support.apple.com/specs/macpro/MacPro_Early2008.html

at the bottom of the page - footnote #6

"8-core 2.8GHz Mac Pro systems configured with one ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics card meet ENERGY STAR requirements. 8-core 3.0GHz and 3.2GHz Mac Pro systems configured with a single graphics card meet ENERGY STAR requirements. All other Mac Pro systems meet ENERGY STAR 3.0 requirements. Systems configured with an Apple Fibre Channel or Mac Pro RAID Card do not comply with ENERGY STAR requirements."



Hmmm..

Deb.