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Sleep Issue - New MacBook Pro

Just picked up a new MacBook Pro last night. Seems like a very nice machine (coming from a rev B, 1st gen MBP). An oddity, though. When closing the lid to put it in sleep mode it seems to awaken for a few seconds every 45 seconds. There will be an audible bzz-bzzzt (as if the hard drive spun briefly), then the apple logo light built into the lid illuminates for a few seconds. It then extinguishes and 45 seconds later the pattern repeats.

I'm not seeing anything in Energy Saver settings to tweak for this. Any ideas?

MacBook Pro 2.53ghz 15" (late 2008) MacBook Pro 2.33ghz 15" PowerBook G4 1.33ghz 12", Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Oct 21, 2008 7:44 AM

229 replies

AlainHK

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Feb 17, 2009 2:33 AM in response to andreidragan

Half a success for me. When I put it to sleep through the Apple menu in the Menu bar it works but only as long as:
1) I don't touch it (if I do it wakes up)
2) I don't close the lid (if I do it wakes AND the screen turns black and I have to hard reboot)

If I simply close the lid it stays asleep only as I long as I don't move my laptop. If I do it wakes up, the only difference with the previous scenario is that when I open the lid I don't need to hard reboot...

On my end it seems like the motion sensor is triggering something.

My only solution is still to use Smart Sleep and have it hibernate when I close the lid. The downside is that, having 4GB RAM it takes ages (70-75 seconds) to wake up. The upside: it sleeps like a baby.

When is Apple Inc going to itself WAKE UP TO THIS PROBLEM AND SAY SOMETHING???!!!

jriff

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Feb 18, 2009 9:07 AM in response to Jeffrey Hughes

I can't take this anymore. I am loosing SO much time and work over this. I am going to put it in for a logic board change - I'll have to pay to rent an other machine while it is being done, but I guess that it is necessary when:

APPLE WON'T ANSWER OUR QUESTIONS 😟

I never thought that Apple would ignore a serious error like this.

astubbs

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Feb 18, 2009 9:59 AM in response to jriff

mmmmh - I hadn't have it happen for a while, then within a day it black screened while trying to go to sleep and later also would not wake up. Nice.

Cerniuk

Level 1

27 points

Feb 18, 2009 3:34 PM in response to astubbs

OK, with bluetooth back on for wake, it is still malfunctioning. Gets the hot on in the bag, does the cannot wake up after monitor changes (black screen of coma). Now the sound is not going up and down when I use the keyboard... just makes the sound, not higher not lower.

But most alarming, is sleep walking again 😟 with all the patches to the ROM and OS applied.

When it black screen comas, close the lid, wait, open lid. (repeat if necessary) and eventually it either crashes or displays a login dialog. Is Windows really tougher than this? I wonder.

Sleep Issue - New MacBook Pro