how to figure out what is waking up my MacPro

[CoffeeMonkey]

Everytime my MacPro goes into sleep mode (either from activity for from me manually putting it there) it immediately clicks awake. Strangely, when I'm booted into Vista, it sleeps like a baby. Is there a way to figure out what is triggering this?

I have a few wireless devices plugged in (mouse, keyboard, display) and bluetooth is off (I'd read that bluetooth headsets are a common culprit).

Thanks in advance for any advice.

 

[TK2K]

Everytime my MacPro goes into sleep mode (either from activity for from me manually putting it there) it immediately clicks awake. Strangely, when I'm booted into Vista, it sleeps like a baby. Is there a way to figure out what is triggering this?

I have a few wireless devices plugged in (mouse, keyboard, display) and bluetooth is off (I'd read that bluetooth headsets are a common culprit).

Thanks in advance for any advice.

can you give us full system specs? do you have a raid card installed?

 

[Infrared]

Everytime my MacPro goes into sleep mode (either from activity for from me manually putting it there) it immediately clicks awake. Strangely, when I'm booted into Vista, it sleeps like a baby. Is there a way to figure out what is triggering this?

I have a few wireless devices plugged in (mouse, keyboard, display) and bluetooth is off (I'd read that bluetooth headsets are a common culprit).

Thanks in advance for any advice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN ?

 

[djjclark]

The Console should list what caused the system to wake.

 

[CoffeeMonkey]

can you give us full system specs? do you have a raid card installed?

No Raid card.


Model Name: Mac Pro
Model Identifier: MacPro4,1
Processor Name: Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 4
L2 Cache (per core): 256 KB
L3 Cache: 8 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Processor Interconnect Speed: 4.8 GT/s
Boot ROM Version: MP41.0081.B04
SMC Version (system): 1.39f5
SMC Version (processor tray): 1.39f5
Serial Number (system): H09222GU4PD
Serial Number (processor tray): J591200QZ4MFC


With an ATI Radeon HD 4870 and four 1TB WD Black drives.

Dell display, USB keyboard, USB wireless mouse.


Also, both Wake for Ethernet Network and wake from bluetooth are off.

 

[J the Ninja]

Open Console.app (/Applications/Utilities folder), and check the system.log file. Scroll up to the last time it woke up when it shouldn't, and see what it says. It will say here why it woke up.

 

[CoffeeMonkey]

The Console should list what caused the system to wake.

Wake reason = HDEF EHC1 EHC2

I did a search on those terms, and came up with this thread:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8672989

Deleting the various plist files, as per advice in that thread, didn't help. Nor did repairing permissions.

 

[J the Ninja]

Wake reason = HDEF EHC1 EHC2

I did a search on those terms, and came up with this thread:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8672989

Deleting the various plist files, as per advice in that thread, didn't help. Nor did repairing permissions.

The culprit is connected via USB. Try disconnecting your devices, one at time, and see which one is doing it. (Be sure to check your USB device tree in System Profiler for any devices you may have missed)

 

[CoffeeMonkey]

The culprit is connected via USB. Try disconnecting your devices, one at time, and see which one is doing it. (Be sure to check your USB device tree in System Profiler for any devices you may have missed)

That was it, sort of.

Any devices plugged into my USB ports that were ALSO attached to the "master" outlets on my APC UPS (namely, my speakers and display) were causing the problem. Once I disabled the "master" function on my UPS, the system sleeps.