Waking from sleep when turning on desk light! Do I have ghosts?
Ok, for me, this is a very strange one. Hopefully to one of you people it will be a well known problem, and one I can fix with your advice. Here goes....
My iMac has always had a little issue in regards to waking itself from sleep whenever I turn on/off my flourescent desk lamp. I thought it's because it was on the same multi-socket exension lead, so I moved the lamp to it's own socket. The problem persisted. I thought it could be an electrical surge issue, so I bought a surge protection extension socket and put my iMac on it. The problem persisted.
More recently I've noticed that the floor lamp on the other side of the room (on a completely seperate wall socket) will also wake my iMac from sleep when it is turned on/off. I don't know if this is relevant, but it uses a power-saving bulb.
The computer also wakes sporadically sometimes. We'll be sat watching TV, and it'll suddenly come to life for no apparent reason.
The weirdest thing was last night - my girlfriend picked up her Macbook, and connected the power cable to the magnet at the side. My iMac immediately came to life. Weird thing is that the Macbook power cable wasn't actually yet plugged into the wall, so how the **** that happened, I haven't a clue!
I've heard of radio frequencies (from walkie talkies etc) causing sleep/shudown issues, but I haven't a clue about lights causing the iMac to wake from sleep. Can anyone help?
The only thing that has changed on my iMac is that I now have a wireless mighty mouse, and a wired new apple keyboard. Surely it can;'t be a bluetooth issue? But, I hasted to add, the "light on/off causing the iMac to wake from sleep" issue has been ongoing pretty much since I bought the machine. It's just that it seems to have got worse, and more and more things are causing the waking problem.
Here's hoping you can offer some pointers!
Many thanks.
Jme
My iMac has always had a little issue in regards to waking itself from sleep whenever I turn on/off my flourescent desk lamp. I thought it's because it was on the same multi-socket exension lead, so I moved the lamp to it's own socket. The problem persisted. I thought it could be an electrical surge issue, so I bought a surge protection extension socket and put my iMac on it. The problem persisted.
More recently I've noticed that the floor lamp on the other side of the room (on a completely seperate wall socket) will also wake my iMac from sleep when it is turned on/off. I don't know if this is relevant, but it uses a power-saving bulb.
The computer also wakes sporadically sometimes. We'll be sat watching TV, and it'll suddenly come to life for no apparent reason.
The weirdest thing was last night - my girlfriend picked up her Macbook, and connected the power cable to the magnet at the side. My iMac immediately came to life. Weird thing is that the Macbook power cable wasn't actually yet plugged into the wall, so how the **** that happened, I haven't a clue!
I've heard of radio frequencies (from walkie talkies etc) causing sleep/shudown issues, but I haven't a clue about lights causing the iMac to wake from sleep. Can anyone help?
The only thing that has changed on my iMac is that I now have a wireless mighty mouse, and a wired new apple keyboard. Surely it can;'t be a bluetooth issue? But, I hasted to add, the "light on/off causing the iMac to wake from sleep" issue has been ongoing pretty much since I bought the machine. It's just that it seems to have got worse, and more and more things are causing the waking problem.
Here's hoping you can offer some pointers!
Many thanks.
Jme
iMac G5, 2.0Ghz, 20", Mac OS X (10.4.11), Wireless Mighty Mouse, Wired Keyboard (new aluminium style)
