Display won't go to sleep and freezes

hey guys, my macbook retina wont go to sleep when I leave it idle, I set it to go to sleep after 1 minute in energy saver preferences but nothing happens..the screen stays on , if I try to manually make it sleep, than the computer screen turns black and freezes.. I have to manually restart after that, I'm on mountain lion 10.8.1

I have a few questions if you have a few minutes to answer. Here they are.
1. Exactly what is sleeping if in energy saver you have these settings:
display not sleeping: hard disk unchecked-not sleeping: and computer sleeping?
2. Why do you leave the hard disk unchecked-not sleeping. If it is spinning, isn't it better to have it stop spinning when not in use?
3. Sort of related to question number 2, why do you use the settings that you mentioned: display-sleeping: computer not sleeping; hard disk-not sleeping. In other words why do you only put the display to sleep.
Thanks, Lorin (dont know much about sleep)

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Here's more on sleep;
This is for a Mac that won't sleep.
Here is KB article HT1776 with their tips.
Mine follow;
USB devices and hubs often cause Macs to not sleep or wake quickly from sleep (notably HP printers and scanners, HP all in ones, and Cannon scanners). Disconnect all USB except for keyboard and mouse and try. If it sleeps, add one back at a time testing after each one to find the culprit.
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"I have had this problem with my IMac G5. It is surprisingly irritating. LaCie's Silverkeeper backup software was the cause. By default it gave itself permission to wake up the computer to check if a backup was needed. Do you have this or a similar program installed which has scheduled activities including wake-up permissions as an option?"
Dave Hamilton provided this link, xlr8yourmac.com, to a member, which addresses failure of deep sleep with some users that updated and added new FireWire and USB card.
Also, here is Apple KB article TA2469 about PCI cards and sleep.
tomhorvat adds this; After few days of messing around I found out that I had desktop background (wallpaper) set to change every 1 minute.
After unchecking "Change picture..." in system preferences (under Desktop/Screen saver), my powerbook went to sleep all by itself.
Tristan Currier noticed this; "I have a Canon printer(shared) and my imac would not sleep. I opened up printer/fax in system prefs and noticed it said the printer was in use when it was off. Opened up the printer queue and noticed about 7 pending documents. Deleted them all and now it sleeps.
Check the printer queue!"
Good Luck!  DALE

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*A few suggestions:*
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See if you can put your computer to sleep w/o shutting down w/your remote.
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303698 Mac OS X: Why your Mac might not sleep or stay in sleep mode
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Anonymous UUID:       9905C7CD-E37B-88D5-513F-68E0BA0DF20A
Sun Oct 19 16:56:06 2014
*** Panic Report ***
panic(cpu 2 caller 0xffffff802c01e80a): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7fad95fe28, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x000000008001003b, CR2: 0x0000000000000000, CR3: 0x000000002f335000, CR4: 0x00000000001626e0
RAX: 0x0000000000000000, RBX: 0xffffff803fd92000, RCX: 0x0000000000000000, RDX: 0x0000000000000000
RSP: 0xffffff80396f3b50, RBP: 0xffffff80396f3bf0, RSI: 0x0000000000000240, RDI: 0xffffff803fd92000
R8: 0x0000000000000000, R9: 0x0000000000000000, R10: 0x000000873104f8f7, R11: 0x00000087306c72ac
R12: 0x0000000000000000, R13: 0x000000000000023e, R14: 0xffffff803fe70000, R15: 0x0000000000000000
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0xffffff80396f3800 : 0xffffff802bf3a811
0xffffff80396f3880 : 0xffffff802c01e80a
0xffffff80396f3a40 : 0xffffff802c03a443
0xffffff80396f3a60 : 0xffffff7fad95fe28
0xffffff80396f3bf0 : 0xffffff7fada770a2
0xffffff80396f3cb0 : 0xffffff7fad8604a3
0xffffff80396f3d00 : 0xffffff7fad8631be
0xffffff80396f3db0 : 0xffffff7fad8620f2
0xffffff80396f3dc0 : 0xffffff802c4d8008
0xffffff80396f3e20 : 0xffffff7fad862d0b
0xffffff80396f3e50 : 0xffffff802c4c5a03
0xffffff80396f3ee0 : 0xffffff802c4be797
0xffffff80396f3f00 : 0xffffff802bf6be13
0xffffff80396f3fb0 : 0xffffff802c0192c7
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14A389
Kernel version:
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Kernel UUID: 89E10306-BC78-3A3B-955C-7C4922577E61
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CQ5000 goes to sleep and freezes win 7

Hello from Dallas - I have a COMPAQ CQ5000 using Win 7, it goes to sleep and feezes. Odd !!! Any ideas, please?

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I have a G5 (Power PC, g5, Dual 1.8 GHZ with 1.25 GB SDRAM, and Mac OS X 10.4.10-phew!) and I recently: added more USB ports using a PCI card, and purchased a non-Apple 22" widescreen display.
Prior to adding USB ports, I was using a hub that ran off its own power source, and used a Samsung 19" monitor.
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I have run the Apple Hardware test and everything checks out OK. I've also reset the SMU according to directions from this forum; AND I've vacuumed out all the dust bunnies.
The fan runs so loud and so high it sounds like it's an airplane that's about to take off.
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All the RAM was seated firmly...so I don't think it's the RAM. Am I looking at a logic board or power supply failure? Is there an alternative I'm missing?

G4 won't start after sleep and power disonnect

Hi,
I recently put my MDD G4 to sleep, then inadvertantly cut the power to the machine. Now it won't start up. I push the start button, it lights up as long as I'm holding it (firmly), but nothing happens. No fan, no screen, nothing. I've tried unplugging. There are no devices connected other than display and keyboard.
I'd be grateful for suggestions!
Thanks,
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Powerbook G4 12-inch 1.5GHz - 1.25GB RAM Mac OS X (10.4.6)
MDD G4 1.25GHz - 1GB RAM Mac OS X (10.3.9)

You could also have a bad PRAM battery. I would check it. When mine went, I had no response from my Mac at all; just a light on my power button; absolutely no boot at all.
Check out things in Texas Mac Mans tutorial on the subject. His tutorial is a little dated (don't believe it even mentions G5's) but the info in it, except SMU not being included, still applies. The PMU reset is discussed in there too.
Cheers!
DALE

G5 WON'T WAKE FROM SLEEP AND RESTARTS WHEN PUT TO SLEEP

My apologies if I'm posting this in the wrong category. I am having some major problems with my iMac G5 running Tiger. The first problem was that when I put the computer to sleep it would not wake up from sleep.
I took it to the Apple store and they found nothing wrong with it. Now when I try to put the computer to sleep it restarts. I thought maybe I had just pressed the restart rather than sleep mode by mistake but when I attempted to put it to sleep a second time it restarted just like before.
It's a bizarre problem I know but I'm wondering if you have any ideas as Apple says if they can't get the computer to recreate the error they won't do anything to fix it

Do you have any USB devices connected (other than keyboard and mouse)? If the display has an USB cable, disconnect that too.

Display won't go to sleep

Hi all,
I have set the display to sleep after 15 minutes of inactivity in Energy Saver preferences, but I noticed my Mac Pro is on screen saver mode all the time when not in use.
My screen saver is set to start after 10 minutes of inactivity, and the computer sleep is set to NEVER.
Is there a setting that I missed or takes precedence over that in Energy Saver for the display?
TIA

In system preferences > Desktop&Screen Saver > Screen Saver- there is a start screen saver time/slider. Your setting here may be affecting the Energy Saver Prefs.

Display won't go to sleep / screen saver won't turn on

Since upgrading to Snow Leopard instead of the screen saver activating or the screen going to sleep when inactive, the screen goes dark for about a second and then flashes back on. It's resulted in images being burned into my screen a couple of times now.
If I manually activate the screen saver then the screen saver stays active and after a minute the display goes to sleep. Also, if I'm using Front Row the screen will go to sleep without a problem. I've tried turning off all apps to test it if one of them is preventing it, and and it still happens.
Anyone else have this happening?

The screensaver preference file is stored in ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.screensaver.xxxxxxx.plist, where xxxxxxx is a UID for your machine. By moving this file out of the folder, your screensaver settings will be reset to the defaults.
The power settings are stored in /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist.
If your new user does not have the problem, then the preference problem may be in your ~/Library/Preferences folder.

Sleeping and freezing

my computer freezes when i wake it up from going to sleep. Im forced to turn it off and start over.

My 3 month-old MBP has just developed sleep problems in the last week. It has just today for the first time frozen while idle, but until then it was always on waking from sleep. To start with, it was infrequent and intermittent, but it's increasing in frequency at a disturbing rate.
When waking from sleep the screen restores and mouse pointer functions, but no input is accepted from mouse, trackpad or keyboard -- which, after researching this elsewhere, it seems is a common symptom of the problem.
The night before last it failed to go to sleep at all and I discovered it cooking away under its lid in the morning, quite a bit warmer than its usual operating temperature, with a black screen that wouldn't restore. I had to do a hard shutdown. No idea whether this is in the least bit relevant, but when it restarted, the Bluetooth status icon was missing from the menu bar (though my BT mouse was working fine) and I had to uncheck and recheck the "Show Bluetooth status in the menu bar" option in System Preferences to restore it.
I'm really scratching my head as to why this should have suddenly started happening. Recent software additions/updates mostly don't correlate as suspects because the programs haven't been running consistently when these freeze-ups occur. About the only one that might be possible is Firefox, but others have been experiencing this thing long before the latest Firefox upgrade so it doesn't seem very likely. I haven't introduced any new hardware within the last month either.
I have Onyx installed and ran the complete set of maintenance routines, but it was after this that the machine failed to even go to sleep.
I haven't found any solutions to this problem on any other forum I've looked at. Anyone else got further with this? Or have any ideas about what the culprit might be?
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2012 Macbook Pro won't boot from CD and freezes in single user mode

I'm rebuilding a macbook pro. Everyting was fine until I tried to install Snow Leopard from the disk. It goes to the Apple symbol no spinning wheel and you can hear the drive working for a few seconds but then stops. I've also tried booting to sinlge user mode but it just freezes after Loading System\Library\Caches\com.apple.kext.cahces\Startup\Extensions.
I've tried resetting the PRAM as well.

If you have a 2012 MacBook Pro, you can't install Snow Leopard because it's not compatible, so it's normal that you can't start OS X.
Now, you have to install OS X Lion or Mountain Lion again. Hold Command, Option (Alt) and R keys while your Mac is starting to start into OS X Recovery, and reinstall OS X. After reinstalling OS X, you will be able to use your computer.
You can't run an older OS X version than the one that came with your computer, because of some reasons:
1. The hardware isn't compatible.
2. The firmware restricts the installation of older versions on the computer.
3. It's illegal: Apple doesn't allow you to install an older OS X version than the one that came with your computer, and it doesn't mind the method you use (a "normal" installation or a virtual machine)

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