Fans won't shut off on Yikes! while sleeping
Hey everyone. My Yikes! G4 will sleep somewhat (screen goes blank, hard drives turn off) when running OS X, but the fans never turn off, and the optical mouse remains lit (moving it will wake the computer up). This has happened under both 10.3 and 10.4. I have a SCSI card (pulled from a Power Mac G3) installed, but even before it was there, the computer still refused to truly sleep under OS X. It sleeps perfectly fine under OS 9. My Beige G3 (running 10.2.6 and 9.2.2) behaves the same way. I have a feeling that the computer is drawing more power in this 'light sleep' mode than it would if it were truly sleeping. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.
-Adam
PowerMac G4 (PCI Graphics) Mac OS X (10.4.7) 512MB RAM, DVD-ROM, SCSI card
At the moment, I have no USB devices attached other than the Apple keyboard and pro mouse, and I have no Firewire devices plugged in. As far as modifications, I have installed a second HD, bumped the CPU speed up by 50MHz, installed a stock-type DVD-ROM drive (with the corresponding video card/DVD decoder), and installed a SCSI card (a pull from a PowerMac G3, and has nothing connected to it), but it never went into deep sleep under OS X even before I made these modifications. Again, any ideas? TIA.
-Adam
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I downloaded what I felt were the appropriate Lenovo apps to update both the BIOS and the serial number but none seem to work properly from the command line in Vista. One of the two (can't recall which) asks me to reboot and it never actually shuts down. Eternal "Shutting Down" message. Ga! The other throws some gosh awful
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Then I decided Vista might be the problem and found sites recommending flashing the BIOS from a bootable USB. So I started down that path and after burning the wrong version, finally geting the AIK Vista tools installed and to the point of trying to make the USB bootable, it won't allow me to put the OS boot on it. Ah, for the days when a simple "sys a:" took care of that.
So, after reformatting the USB and pounding my head in the wall, keyboard, etc. I am at my wit's end. What to do. I just want the fan noise to go away.
This does seem to duplicate other forum messages but I can't get anywhere on this. Help!
Solved!
Go to Solution.FYI to all the helpful folks here (and any looking to shut their jet engine off as well): Flashing the BIOS did the trick.
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Ahhhhhhh.
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HT203987 My Apple iPad won't shut off or close down. How do I get it to shut off'
I Have an Apple IPad tablet.it is a 32 gb. IOS 8.1.3 when I try to shut it down I know there use to be a bar that you slide to close it.but now I can't find it . I held the button down for 10 to 20 seconds but it still won't shut off. If I let it go during the nite while I sleep I can hear it makeing a dinging sound like I get when a notification shows up. but it won't completely shut down . How do I get it to shut off.
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