I bought a new MBP in March and it seems to have a strange problem with sleep mode. When I close the notebook, I notice that the computer keeps "booting up" - i.e. I can hear the hard drive spin and the white apple on the top of the MBP lights up". This happens off and on for as a long as its in sleep mode, and the computer is warm to the touch when I start it up again.
Does anyone else have this problem? Is this putting excess stress on my hard drive, etc?
Anyone else know what's up with this? Also, I bought my MBP in March so my free Apple care should still be in effect I assume. How do I go about contacting them, is there a phone number online somewhere?
It's definitely not right! A common cause of "insomnia" like this is USB devices - do you have any plugged in? External USB hard drives will do this.
If it's not USB bus activity, I'm not sure what it is. I wouldn't necessarily expect a PRAM reset to resolve this, but an
SMC reset might. (That won't help if the culprit is a USB device - the only solution there is to unplug all USB devices before closing the lid.)