I am having some behavior issues with my powermac. In system preferences, I told my computer to go to sleep after 3 minutes (for testing) I also told the display to go to sleep after 3 minutes. After three minutes, the display sleeps, but the powermac keeps on chugging. After 15 minutes, it is still awake...what is causing this to happen When I push the power btton, it falls asleep instantly..??? Should I contact apple support?
Try having it just go to sleep after 3 minutes, and leave display as never sleep. See if it works normally then. Two commands happening at 3 minutes of inactivity might confuse it and make it only pick one. Sidenote: You don't want your computer to sleep every 3 minutes anyway. Just at night time is enough. You can do it manually by clicking on the apple when you're done with it.
nahhh...when you drag the slider for the sleep, the monitor slider drags down with it...why would it get confused, its not windows...and it is a powermac...
I've never had a powermac, so I don't know.. but boths bars dragging together seems very weird to me. Anyone know anything more about this?
iMac on my iMac both sliders can be moved seperatly EDIT: Ding Ding Ding!! I think i have the answer. Ok now, the computer is probably staying on so it can start the screensaver!! Is the screensaver set at 3 minutes?? If it isnt, the computer could technically stay on to show the screensaver. I tested it this on my iMac G5 and if the screensaver was later on than the sleep mode it kept going.
Try his answer, but i can move both sliders seperately on my iBook as well. And that comment about how "things can get confused because this isn't windows." mac's aren't flawless, and i was only trying to help. thaaaaaanks.
Nope, still doesnt work, even after setting the screen saver to 3 minutes. I think its time to call up apple and complain.
Just to see something; set the display to sleep at: NEVER, the computer to sleep at: 3 Minutes, and the screen saver to come on NEVER. See if that works.
right, that's what i was saying originally. it could just be multiple things at once and one just takes priority over the others.
Everything used to work though, Could it be some software I installed thats preventing it from going to sleep?
Also, I have a UPS that is connected via USB, It has its own little setting in the power manager, and yes, I did watch that setting...
After spending 2.5 hrs on the phone with apple...we decided that we needed to do an archive and install