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iMac will not stay in sleep

dlewis23

dlewis23

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I just purchased a new 2013 iMac a couple days ago and I'm having a problem where it will not stay in sleep mode. I get up from it put it to sleep, it will stay a sleep for 5 - 10 minutes and wake it self up.

I have "Wake for network access" and "Enable power nap" off in energy saver. I've tried closing ever program before sleeping, turning my mouse and bluetooth speakers off no difference it will still wake up.

Does anyone have any ideas?
 
dlewis23 said:
I just purchased a new 2013 iMac a couple days ago and I'm having a problem where it will not stay in sleep mode. I get up from it put it to sleep, it will stay a sleep for 5 - 10 minutes and wake it self up.

I have "Wake for network access" and "Enable power nap" off in energy saver. I've tried closing ever program before sleeping, turning my mouse and bluetooth speakers off no difference it will still wake up.

Does anyone have any ideas?
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Keep your mouse switched on.
 
Unplug everything from your Mac apart from the bare essentials such as wired keyboard and mouse, if you have them. Unplug everything if you have wireless keyboard and mouse. Now try putting the Mac to sleep and see if it stays asleep.

If it does then plug things back in one at a time until you can replicate your problem.

I has the same problem and the error console suggested it was a bluetooth device waking my iMac (Wake reason: XHC1). But this was a red herring - in fact the problem was a USB card reader that I had attached via a USB hub. Once I disconnected the card reader, the iMac stopped waking up!
 
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