I have a new 2013 13" air i7 8gb ram 128gb ssd and like the title states I have had the screen shutoff on me 2 times now. I will be browsing a forum and the screen will just go black. I know it shouldn't be going into sleep because I just scrolled down 5 seconds before. I will hit the spacebar and nothing happens. 15 seconds later it turns back on and opens all minimized programs.
It acts like its restarting but I never get the boot screen or have to reenter the password. Has anyone had this happen?
My previous mac was a 2010 MBP 13" with a ssd upgrade and I never saw anything like this.
Thanks
this is all of a sudden happening with my 2008 mb in which i put a ssd. i think it's a software glitch in the OS somewhere. i suspect it has something to do with the dropped-laptop detection in my computer but i'm not sure if the the airs have that feature, i would suspect not.
something to do with something trying to put the hard drives to sleep?
permissions and SMC resets are going to be the google-related answers you find for this problem. either that or a trip to the fruitstand.
it's a minor problem but its absolutely infuriating, isn't it? you're typing along and then your machine goes to sleep for no reason.
EDIT - i just noticed what you said about minimized programs...could there be something weird going on with shortcuts and "sloppy" typing?
I know this is less likely, but I am forever hitting command-t to open a new tab for a new google search in chrome, typing the search string and hitting enter too fast which results in 2 new tabs, one with the search string.
I also do comm-M by mistake quite a bit as well... i would poke around the shortcuts and see if there's a likely culprit in there.