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#1 2008-07-13 10:09 pm
- jsheffie
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MDD G4 refuses sleep and shutdown...
Hi,
I have a MDD G4 dual 1ghz with 1.5GB RAm.
I cannot shut it down or sleep it. When I click shut down, it restart. If I click sleep it shuts everything off but then immediately turns back on. I can hold the power button down and force it off, but that's no good.
Permissions seem ok.
OS 10.4.11
Any ideas?
thanks
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#2 2008-07-13 10:31 pm
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Re: MDD G4 refuses sleep and shutdown...
Do you experience the same issues when you have your internet connection unplugged?
Side question: Have you upgraded the processor?
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#3 2008-07-14 1:36 pm
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Re: MDD G4 refuses sleep and shutdown...
Inspect the power button on the front of the machine. It might be stuck in under the case.
Try resetting the PRAM.
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#4 2008-07-14 3:33 pm
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Re: MDD G4 refuses sleep and shutdown...
This is not an upgraded CPU.
Network... I don't know. Will try it out tonight.
The Power button is fine.
Resetting the PRAM does not fix it.
thanks,
-Me
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#5 2008-07-14 10:30 pm
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Re: MDD G4 refuses sleep and shutdown...
The big question is when did this start? Have you owned this machine for long, and if so, what has changed since then.
Hope it all works out.
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#6 2008-07-15 8:30 am
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Re: MDD G4 refuses sleep and shutdown...
Is "Restart after a power failure" checked in the Energy Management control panel? I'm just fishing for something similar I heard of a few months ago about a Mac being accidently set for automatic restart....sounds like your situation...you may find it with a forum search.
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#7 2008-07-15 9:53 am
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Re: MDD G4 refuses sleep and shutdown...
Thanks for all the replies. This is actually my mother's machine, and I didn't get to it last night.
I owned this machine for probably a good 2 1/2 years before I gave it to her.
I will make a trip to her house tonight and get the answers you seek 
.
Thanks again for everything. Hopefully I'll be back on here tonight.
-Me
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#8 2008-07-16 9:12 am
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Re: MDD G4 refuses sleep and shutdown...
Well, So far all your suggestions have not had an effect. I appreciate the help though.
Are there other suggestions?
thanks again,
-Me
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#9 2008-07-16 9:38 am
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Re: MDD G4 refuses sleep and shutdown...
I reseated all cards and ram installed in the machine, just in case. I also reset the PMU in case that was causing the sleep/shutdown issues but nothing has changed.
thanks again
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#10 2008-07-16 11:25 am
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Re: MDD G4 refuses sleep and shutdown...
Is the electricity stable at that house outlet ? Do you have another computer to test at that outlet ?
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#11 2008-07-16 11:38 am
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Re: MDD G4 refuses sleep and shutdown...
Yeah the electricity is clean. There are two computer plugged into a UPS. One Mac and one compaq. The PC, although quite a bit newer, does not exhibit any strange behaviour besides insisting on displaying XP professional on its screen .
I have also tried the mac on another circuit as well.
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#12 2008-07-24 12:17 am
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Re: MDD G4 refuses sleep and shutdown...
I'm having the same problem with my MDD G4. I've tried just about everything to get it to shutdown or sleep. Tried a proper monitor as Apple suggests, unplugged all the USB devices, reset PRAM, everything...
I'm wondering if it might be because Panther 10.5 was loaded on the machine before I got it a month ago. I reformatted the drive, installed Tiger 10.4 and it works fine except for the shutdown/sleep issue.
Jsheffie, have you resolved the issue on your machine? Are you running 10.4?
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#13 2008-07-24 1:12 am
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Re: MDD G4 refuses sleep and shutdown...
inspect the logs (console.app). Does anything strange appear before you attempt to shutdown?
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#14 2008-07-24 7:38 am
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Re: MDD G4 refuses sleep and shutdown...
I still have the issue, and am currently running 10.4.11
Here is a log entry from the sleep command to waking. I don't have a shutdown yet.
Jul 16 10:25:50 power-mac-g4 kernel[0]: System Sleep
Jul 16 10:25:50 power-mac-g4 kernel[0]: Sound assertion "0 != err" failed in "AppleLegacyAudio/AppleTexas2Audio/AppleTexas2Audio.cpp" at line 3648 goto Exit
Jul 16 10:25:49 power-mac-g4 mDNSResponder: Repeated transitions for interface en0 (FE80:0000:0000:0000:020A:95FF:FE67:3B46); delaying packets by 5 seconds
Jul 16 10:25:50 power-mac-g4 kernel[0]: ^PSystem Wake
Jul 16 10:25:50 power-mac-g4 configd35: posting notification com.apple.system.config.network_change
Jul 16 10:25:50 power-mac-g4 kernel[0]: Wake event 0800
Jul 16 10:25:50 power-mac-g4 lookupd196: lookupd (version 369.5) starting - Wed Jul 16 10:25:50 2008
Jul 16 10:25:50 power-mac-g4 kernel[0]: rtclock timebase_callback: late old 1000000000 / 41658765 new 1000000000 / 41658675
Jul 16 10:25:50 power-mac-g4 kernel[0]: rtclock timebase_callback: late old 1000000000 / 41658765 new 1000000000 / 41658496
Jul 16 10:25:50 power-mac-g4 kernel[0]: Sound assertion "0 != err" failed in "AppleLegacyAudio/AppleTexas2Audio/AppleTexas2Audio.cpp" at line 960 goto Exit
Jul 16 10:25:50 power-mac-g4 kernel[0]: ^Prtclock timebase_callback: late old 1000000000 / 41658765 new 1000000000 / 41658496
Jul 16 10:25:50 power-mac-g4 kernel[0]: UniNEnet::monitorLinkStatus - Link is up at 100 Mbps - Full Duplex
Jul 16 10:25:51 power-mac-g4 kernel[0]: AirPortFirmware: start Sta f/w download
Jul 16 10:25:54 power-mac-g4 launchd: Server 3757 in bootstrap 1103 uid 0: "/usr/sbin/lookupd"196: exited abnormally: Hangup
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#15 2008-07-24 8:36 am
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Re: MDD G4 refuses sleep and shutdown...
Try to run the hardware test CD. The "repeated transitions" error looks somewhat familiar--though my problem was with the firewire port.
Last edited by jerwin (2008-07-24 8:38 am)
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#16 2008-07-24 8:39 am
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Re: MDD G4 refuses sleep and shutdown...
I can't find it I moved last year and it got lost in the move. All I have is a retail Tiger Disc
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