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G4 continually sleeps

Helloooo -

I recently installed a new 120mm fan in my G4 to quiet the noise FYI. I was toying with the energy saver settings to stop the comp from sleeping while I recorded in Pro Tools. It would sleep, I would wake it, put in my password cause it was protected, and then it would promptly go back to sleep before I could even do a thing. I am talking ONE SECOND and it was asleep again, asking for a password to wake, etc.


So I rebooted, and the same thing immediately started happening after I logged in. So I shut her down and have no idea what to do cause I can't troubleshoot if it keeps falling asleep.


Mac OSX 10.4 on a MDD G4

Pro Tools 7.1.3cs


Any guesses? Solutions? Obv don't want to have to reinstall... FWIW I do have 10.4 and 10.6 on the computer on diff partitions so I could possibly reinstall on one, but it is currently on 10.4 as the problem persists.


Thanks for reading!

Billy

PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.4.11), G4 MDD

Posted on Jan 28, 2013 6:59 PM

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Posted on Jan 29, 2013 11:38 AM

Hi Billy, I'm a bit confused, no G4 can run 10.6, did ypu mean 10.5?


Have you done a PRAM reset, CMD+Option+p+r...


http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379


In fact, do 3 in a row, takes a bit of time.


How to reset the SMU/PMU on a Power Mac Earlier G3, G4, G5 models...


http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1939

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G4 continually sleeps

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