Q: Optical drive wont sleep while charging
Ive recently purchased a 15" aluminuim powerbook g4 1.6, and the previous owner reinstalled 10.5 Leopard from scratch. Ive only added Firefox, and 10.6 and 10.7 updates. Reset pram, plist, and repaired disk permission, and no other software is loaded.
When the screen is closed, and the charger is on, the dvd drive makes the eject noise every 10 secs or so. It seems to be rebooting the drive, and having trouble sleeping. I can put a dvd in and it runs properly and ejects properly, so there is nothing in the drive. The noise only happens while the charger is on in sleep mode. Remove the charger, and the drive is fine while in sleep. Do a shutdown and the charger is fine. There seems to be a conflict between charging and sleep mode.
Do I have faulty hardware? I am unaware of the history of this machine. Any tips appreciated.
Posted on Feb 17, 2013 6:04 PM
Andrewk4 wrote:
When the screen is closed, and the charger is on, the dvd drive makes the eject noise every 10 secs or so.
Does this happen only when the lid is closed?
If so, I would suspect the problem to possibly be with the palm rest being raised a little.
If you close the lid, does the lit completely sit flush with the base? The reason for asking is, I've know these PowerBooks to have bent or damaged keyboard/palm rest, which when the lids closed, it presses against the top left key which is the CD/DVD eject button. If this is being pressed in constantly, it will keep the PowerBook awake and keep trying to eject the optical drive.
It could also be a problem with the keyboard having a bit of dust or dirt under the keys. Sometimes creates the keys to be raised a little and again when the lid is shut it's being pressed.
Posted on Feb 19, 2013 7:18 AM