Issues with sleep mode...

Hi,
I have a PowerMac G4 Dual 1,25Ghz MDD, when I'm not using the machine I put it to sleep from the menu and it will sleep correctly and wakes up when I press any key on the keyboard.
But if I use the Option-Command-Eject to sleep, then only the monitor goes black and nothing else, also waking up from this mode is impossible, I have to powered down/up to get everything working. (Or I have not found any other way)
Shouldn't these too be the same? I have searched the Apple documentation and could not find any info that this would initiate different sleep modes.
regards,
Sebastian

Hi-
Two questions:
What keyboard are you using?
Did this issue occur before update to OS 10.4.9, or, after the update? If the answer is "after update", please see the following:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070316233431364
G4 AGP(450)Sawtooth, 2ghz PowerLogix, 1.62gb SDRAM, 120gb+160gb HDD Mac OS X (10.4.8) ATI Radeon 9800, Pioneer DVR-109, LaCie 160gb, 23" Cinema Display, Ratoc USB2.0

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I understand that you are having some issues with your HP Pavilion p7-1240 Desktop PC waking up from sleep mode. I am not sure how much can be done for the delay on your startup with an OEM BIOS you are limited in what you can do and since your graphic card works I think you would be better off not messing too much with the BIOS at this point. The one thing I would try is going into the BIOS using the HP Support document:BIOS Setup Utility Information and Menu Options, and under Advanced > Power-On Options set POST Messages to Disable and POST Delay (in seconds) to None.
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