Here I am sitting on my bed with my laptop (Mac Pro turning on randomly)

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Ravich

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Oct 20, 2009

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Portland, OR

• Sep 30, 2010

• #1

And I can hear my Mac Pro waking itself up from sleep every so often. What does this mean?

 

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SpookyLars

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Jul 21, 2008

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Poland

• Sep 30, 2010

• #2

Try to uncheck option "Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer" in System Preferences/Bluetooth/Advanced.

 

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kez

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Jun 24, 2008

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• Sep 30, 2010

• #3

time machine?

 

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DualShock

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Jun 29, 2008

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• Sep 30, 2010

• #4

If you also have an AirPort Extreme / Express, and turned on Wake On Demand:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3774

In that article:

Macs that have Wake on Demand enabled will occasionally wake for a brief time, without lighting the screen, in order to maintain registrations with the Bonjour Sleep Proxy.

Click to expand...

 

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Weepul

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Jan 13, 2008

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• Sep 30, 2010

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This happened to me when I had my USB printer sitting atop a small refrigerator. My hypothesis is that the interference it produced when it started cooling was received by the printer and the computer interpreted this as activity on the USB, waking up the computer.

In other words, check if any attached devices may be malfunctioning.

 

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Ravich

macrumors 6502a

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Oct 20, 2009

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Portland, OR

• Sep 30, 2010

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I'm not positive but I think it might have been because Logic was running.