I have a G5 (1TB/2GB/10.5.8/single 1.6GHz - always in 'reduced speed' mode for some limited but welcome energy conservation) as an iTunes machine.
Recently I installed an M-Audio Audiophile 192 PCI soundcard, which is yielding excellent results in almost all respects. Except that now, I can no longer get my PowerMac G5 into sleep mode. And that blllllllows (pardon my French).
I have tried several things:
If I take out the soundcard, sleep functions just fine again.
Just now Googling, on M-Audio's site I found this:
http://tinyurl.com/cocgfug
...quote: "M-Audio does not support sleep mode with any of its devices. The ability to re-establish a connection with a 3rd party device driver after waking from sleep or hibernation mode is system dependent. Because of this, M-Audio recommends setting your computer to never go to sleep. Instead, it is recommended that you turn off your monitor, or completely power off the computer."
Okay, that is a rather clear statement by the manufacturer. Still I think this is a huge bummer given my use: this G5 is rather power hungry, and I need it to go to sleep automatically when I don't use it.
Does anyone have a tip for me? Is there for example some (3rd party) software utility that can force a G5 into sleep?
What would even be an acceptable solution to me, would be if the G5 would completely shut off after some period of non-usage -- much like what Energy Settings may do. Get the computer to sleep after x minutes of inactivity. The option to turn the computer off instead of getting the computer to sleep doesn't exist to my knowledge, but can I perform some sort of hack to make that happen? (Of course I know about the option to shut the computer off at a specific time, but that's obviously rather inflexible.)
Recently I installed an M-Audio Audiophile 192 PCI soundcard, which is yielding excellent results in almost all respects. Except that now, I can no longer get my PowerMac G5 into sleep mode. And that blllllllows (pardon my French).
I have tried several things:
- PRAM reset (serveral times)
- Pressing CUDA button (several times)
- Reinstalling MacOS
- Reinstalling driver
If I take out the soundcard, sleep functions just fine again.
Just now Googling, on M-Audio's site I found this:
http://tinyurl.com/cocgfug
...quote: "M-Audio does not support sleep mode with any of its devices. The ability to re-establish a connection with a 3rd party device driver after waking from sleep or hibernation mode is system dependent. Because of this, M-Audio recommends setting your computer to never go to sleep. Instead, it is recommended that you turn off your monitor, or completely power off the computer."
Okay, that is a rather clear statement by the manufacturer. Still I think this is a huge bummer given my use: this G5 is rather power hungry, and I need it to go to sleep automatically when I don't use it.
Does anyone have a tip for me? Is there for example some (3rd party) software utility that can force a G5 into sleep?
What would even be an acceptable solution to me, would be if the G5 would completely shut off after some period of non-usage -- much like what Energy Settings may do. Get the computer to sleep after x minutes of inactivity. The option to turn the computer off instead of getting the computer to sleep doesn't exist to my knowledge, but can I perform some sort of hack to make that happen? (Of course I know about the option to shut the computer off at a specific time, but that's obviously rather inflexible.)
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