2010 Mac Pro not waking with Mavericks

Processor 2 x 2.4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon
Memory 6 GB 1066 MHz DDR3 ECC
Graphics ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB
Software OS X 10.9.4 (13E28)
Internal drives: Mac HD 1TB. Disk 2: 750MB. Disk 3: 2 TB. Disk 4: 1 TB
My mid-2010 Mac Pro is sometimes not waking after it is in sleep mode. I was able to start it again after disconnecting peripherals, disconnected power for the allotted time, zapped PRAM. Did a disk repair with Disk Utility. Is there anything else I should be doing? Also generated this message in console/diagnostic and usage messages:
8/8/14 11:43:30.575 AM powerd[16]: com.apple.message.domain: com.apple.sleep.failure
com.apple.message.signature: Platform Failure
com.apple.message.summarize: YES
Sender_Mach_UUID: 83C854AA-0FB9-30C2-8443-D10D781E0E25
Perhaps related to this I cannot use Time Machine on a WD 2TB hd since Mavericks installed. When I switched windows while it was backing up it would display an "device unmounted without ejecting". Now it does not mount at all.
Thanks

Sleep – Slow Wakeup/Requires Reset
Sleep - Wakeup
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Mid-2010 MacBook Pro seemingly fried by Mavericks

I have a mid-2010 MacBook Pro that I installed Mavericks onto a couple of days after general release. Everything was fine with it for a week or so, and then I started to notice a couple of weird errors crop up - I had an error come up on iTunes (I think the error code was 13024) and apps would start to not open. I thought it might need a restart, so I rebooted. On restart my computer then hung on the grey startup screen with the loading wheel spinning perenially. After 10 attempts, I tried every alternate startup key input I could think of to try and get my computer in action (Reset NVRAM, Safe Boot, etc.) The first one to 'work' was Startup Manager by pressing Option. I opened Recovery Mode and tried verifying disk permissions. This threw up a TON of errors. On repairing, they all gave a me Error-22. Repair Disk didn't work either. I then tried restarting again to see if anything had been changed to boot as usual. Again, nothing.
Next I pressed D on startup to run an AHT. This actually successfully booted to my desktop and could explore Finder and see my files etc. No applications would open and Quick Look would not let me view any files. System Preferences would also not let me launch any preference panes. Pretty much anything I clicked yielded a dialog box with a message along the lines of "Unapproved caller: SecurityAgent may only be invoked by Apple software."
My whole system froze up on the rainbow wheel after I had to relaunch Finder from the Force Quit menu after testing Quick Look. Now when I boot into the Startup Manager neither my hard drive or the recovery drive are visible, and I only have the option to run Internet Recovery (where I am writing this post from). Normal startup just gives me a flashing folder icon with a question mark in it. I'm fairly sure Mavericks has totally fried my hard drive. Does anyone know if there's anything I can do about this or has had something similar happen to them?

Dude i had same problem and also running same hardware as yours, i complety fomated my HDD and reinstalled everything from scratch. That did not help me, i thought it could be my HDD getting corrupted (reason why i thought that is becuase whenever "unapproved caller" showed up at same time everything on my HDD went read only mode). Hence i replaced HDD and put in new one, i dont get unapproved caller anymore.
But there is still a problem somewhere, becuase my MBP freezes and HDD goes to read only mode, the only solution is to restart my mac sometimes multiple times.
I think both these events are mutually exculsive.
I have been troubled with this for about week now and very much gave up all hopes on my MBP.

2010 Mac Pro not waking with Mavericks

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