Leopard Mini 1.83 sleep issues

Hi, I recently got a new/refurb Mini 1.83 to use as a media centre, it's hooked up to the TV with a Microsoft wireless keyboard/mouse. As soon as I got it I upgraded it to Leopard.
My problem is it refuses to wake from sleep, or to put it more accurately, it seems to refuse to go to sleep.
More detail:
If the Mini s on during the day and manually put to sleep it will do so OK: The screen goes blank and the little light on the front pulses. If however the Mini is left to go to sleep on it's own, ie overnight or something, in the morning the light on the front is not pulsing but is on permanently as if its switched on, but it's competely dead, no output to the TV, and checking the network I can see it's no longer connected, so I assume it's off (even thought the light on the front is on!). In this state the only way to power it up is to hard reset it (push and hold the power button until it powers down, then start as normal).
I have the energy saver power settings as follows: Sleep after 1 hour, screen off after 30mins.
Any ideas?

I have the exact same issue
My mac mini is an core duo 1,83 ghz, superdrive, 2gb ram, leopard 10.5.1
Leopard was installed 'clean' (no upgrading, i tried and it messed up every thing)
Dvd playback quite often stink as well- seems like the leopard dvd player and frontrow sometimes have issues separating volume up/down from menu up/down. Sometimes it even have problems showing the menues (same dvds works fine with tiger - for the record, i am in 'pal land')
I have disabled screensaver and turn-off-screen-after-x-seconds
For the record - it worked fine with tiger!
So...i am a bit in a grey area - frontrow works 1000x better in leopard when it comes to network sources and it supports video_ts folder playback (i have all my dvds backed up on a nas)
Tiger work fine with sleep/wake but frontrow ***** for my use. But of course there are alternatives to that...(mediacentral)
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I haven't found anything in Darwin. And it appears now this might be a hardware issue - with a newly installed SATA HD.
About the time the Leopard came out, I upgraded my G5 iMac from a 250GB HD to a 750GB HD. The old original drive was a Maxtor, the new drive a Seagate. Since Maxtor is no more, and Seagate is supporting the last lines of Maxtor drives, I figured it was the best choice (I could have gone with a WesternDigital which would have been cheeper).
Anyway, I reinstalled my Maxtor 250GB drive, which had Tiger installed, and with the Display sleeptime of 1 minute, and the System sleep time of 2 minutes (screen saver was disabled), the bezel light would stay on and react to ambient light for about 2.25 minutes. It would then start to cycle thru bright and dim, and at the same time you could hear the fans and HD power down.
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I also wanted to mention that I tried resetting PRAM and the SMU without any obvious changes.
So, at this point I am just giving in to the fact that I have to specifically tell the system to sleep via the Apple menu, or shut down altogether. I will keep looking into this, but won't be using as much time as I have been.
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Getting problem while installing Snow Leopard (10.6.3) on my Mac Mini. The following issue is showing :
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Intel Core 2 Duo
1.83Ghz
l2Cache: 2mb
Memory : 2GB
Bus Speed: 667MHz
Please help me......
Thanks

Actually i have Mac OS X 10.5.4 DVD, I need to upgrade it to Snow Loepard(OS X 10.6)...
Please suggest me what to do???
Thanks

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512 SSD
16 GB RAM
everything was working beautifully for quite a long time, in fact, i've never had any issues at all. upgraded to 10.8.5 build 12F37 last night and now the computer won't wake from sleep. it has to be forced off and then restarted in order to get it to "come back".
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Also it happens without the MBOX 2 connected, which is USB audio interface by the way, and with just a Seagate external USB 3 Drive connected, which I use for backing up and has worked fine without these sleep issues up to 10.8.4.
So it is like this...you put the computer to sleep, it goes to sleep, external drive spins off, after a few seconds external drive spins on again for no reason, display stays in sleep, but not rest of the system, as when you wake up a good indication to see whether it has woken up from deep sleep or just display sleep is that if you had wifi on and connected, when it wakes up now it is always connected to wifi, whereas when normally the imac wakes up from deep sleep the wifi connection(just the connection not the wifi interface) is off and is looking for it and connecting to it after you have woken it up. Something totally going wrong with the power management since 10.8.5, no doubt. Ι initially had installed 108.5 from the software update window, done the combo update on top now, and still no change in this behaviour. Strange that it let's me install the 10.8.5 combo, as before, if you had installed the update, it would not let you do it again...Not sure about what this is...
I had different but still sleep issues with an imac late 2009 i7 27inch, after a certain update in Snow Leopard, where again I had done the update through the software update window, instead of downloading the combo one...back then it was that it wouldn't actually go to deep sleep, just display sleep.
It is so frustrating that this happens. The biggest issue is that if you leave the computer supposedly at this sleep for a long time it does not wake up from the mouse or elsewhere...!!!!
And another update, removing the Seagate MyBackup(USB 3) or whatever it is called, putting the computer to sleep, and waking up, it does actually behave as it should, it wakes up and the wifi is looking for the connection and connects after a few seconds, it is not connected as when you have a USB device connected(the MBOX 2 or the Seagate external USB 3 drive in my case) which it seems wakes up the computer from deep sleep(which means it is on and the wifi connects in the background)immediately after a few moments you put it to sleep(observation is that MBOX keeps on going on and off sleep as led's go off and on at regular intervals and the same seems to happen with the external drive....).
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Mac book pro 10.5.7 sleep issue..... not even sydney genius bar can help me

ok hey guys, this is my first ever post on a support forum so please help me out!
I'll give any specific hardware info if needed later on but this is the basics:
i have had my mbp for over a year and 6months into it my mbp started going into sleep mode for no reason ...and no im not simple the energy settings are set to never sleep so its not that. Since then i have tried and tested everything under the sun to resolve the issue i have been to the genius bar and booked it in several times, each time they tell me they can not find any problem. I have had the logic board replaced - i have tried removing the p.list files, resetting pram thingy the battery test thing....everything...i have looked on endless forums for a resolution but nothing works!, it will go to sleep at random times generally when im doing alot of things on it it can run fine for days maybe sometime weeks but then its starts playing up again. When it does sleep the screen goes blank and the power light pulses but worst it cuts the internet connection which is terrible coz i have a time capsule and it cuts that link as well and messes that up entirely! sometimes it will just keep cutting out every 20-40 seconds untill i wake it by tapping the space bar or moving my mouse sometimes it just shuts down completely - i have done a compete erase & reinstall but ill b honest i still reinstalled some programs from my backups that cant be downloaded anymore (isquint etc) coz the genius guys said maybe a program is corrupting the hardware but if anyone has any ANY ideas or has the same problem please! tell me - im sure i could add more info n stuff but if u want 2 ask me specifics then i will answer anything to help
thanx again guys.
i should say at this point the only relief im getting to stop it from sleeping is if i disconnect the power adapter and use the battery that seems to stop it, but it has crashed(slept) on battery power as well but as of today doing this seems to help ....hasn't crashed since writting this! LOL

Has anyone got any assumptions on suspect software that may cause my problem??
I see that louie has a possible response for you. I had forgotten about that problem.
lastfm, transmission or handbrake. Can anyone confim issues after installing these apps?
if not these softwares then im convinced im dealing with a power issue.
I would be doubtful (although not completely dismissive) of anything like these being the source of your problem.
the genius bar has said it may b an enviromental issue. this also may be the case, tho not so much recently. They said perhaps magnectic fields may cause it 2 go 2 sleep and its true moving my MBP around does seem to settle it for instance if i move it out of my room im yet to see any of my sleep issues occur
The movement sensor might be involved, as also louie's excellent suggestion of the temp sensor. It is difficult to know how to test these effectively and might need more tools than the GB can muster.
But i dont live in a electricity tower and i did move my MBP to the other side of my room where it worked for a good month - and then started again with the sparatic sleeping.
It is hard to disprove a negative. The only way to bring some sort of evidence to the table if there were some such interference would be to use the computer for an extended period away from where you are using it now. If it works without problem in (say) Starbucks or some other neutral area, and then fails within a few minutes of returning to your home, then there is something stronger to work with. Then you can start to track down some external source, I would guess.
So i will try a safe start as graham had suggetsed as this seems as a simple enough fix - but i do run a time capsule, ext 1TB HD, Wireless mouse etc ..which i presume will not work in safe mode .... and is the idea to just keep safe mode on untill it does crash again or will just starting up on safe mode then restarting solve the issue?
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As for A weak diode..I dunno what that is or how 2 check it
Right. I couldn't either, and most shops won't: they would just replace the board. There is a shop here . . . but that is too far for you.
i think the battery is ok ..as i said it performs better at this point when i disconnect the power...but not always... i had a terrible day yesterday when it would keep going to sleep everytime i reconnected the power, if i try 2 persist it will keep going back 2 sleep ever 30 seconds untill i eaither just leave it be for a while or untill it just turns off completely!
That suggests, as I mentioned earlier, something awry with the battery/power combination; especially if the performance is not consistent. A battery should deteriorate gradually, not come and go.
If it does turn off when i turn it back on it wont even get to the grey apple logo it just keeps turning off after 2-5 seconds (turning off not sleeping)
so im at a loss why that is!
No power. You have to wait a while until the power level is brought up to a workable level.
The power cord seems fine all the pins spring out - the middle spring is smaller than the others tho.
Mine too. That seems OK.
Do post those logs. Someone might see the answer.

When I turn on my TV/AV receiver my Mac mini goes to sleep!?

This issue occurs regardless of whether the Mac Mini is in sleep mode or awake...
I have my Mac Mini connected to my HDTV, therefore I connect using an iPad as a remote.
When I turn on the TV and receiver (Onkyo), the Mac Mini will go in to sleep mode, even after showing the desktop with no problem (moments later it will turn off). This makes it very hard to wake up using any iPad apps, because even using wake on LAN functions these seem to have little effect. On some occasions I can use wake on LAN and this works, however most of the time this is unsuccessful. If the Mac Mini is already in sleep mode, I will of course have the same problems.
My main issue is that this is only started happening since upgrading to mountain lion and there was no problem before using lion.
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Spent two hours with Apple Care (level one and level two) people that didn't have a clue what was going on. Called NEC and they had no explaination.
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Andrew,
This is not an AppleCare issue, it is an Apple bug that you didn't want and will be addressed by AppleCare representatives. Your are helping out the communnity. If they don't believe you, refer them to this discussion. They never tell you about the 90 day software exception clause for free techsupport when one updates to a major MacOS change. I found that sending in a known bug where many people are experiencing it through AppleCare where they end up uploading your OS data to their engineers gets more attention than going to Apple.com/feedback. The more people who report it, the quicker it gets addressed.
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I recently upgraded to a new 13 inch MacBook Pro to replace my previous one. With the upgrade, I'm now on the latest OS and I have a Thunderbolt instead of Mini-displayport output. I have a Dell U2410 monitor which has worked great up until now, but I now have the following behavior:
When the laptop sleeps (or puts the display to sleep) the monitor begins to turn on and off. It goes to powersave mode and immediately wakes up, realizes there's no signal, and goes back to powersave mode, etc etc etc.
When I wake the computer up from sleep, the monitor's behavior stays the same. The laptop never detects the display and begins sending a signal.
If I unplug and replug the adapter, all is well.
There seem to be two separate issues: whatever signal the computer continues to send down the display cable after sleep seems to confuse my monitor, secondly, the computer never again sends a real video signal down the line after it wakes up.
I'm on the latest 10.8.3. My adapter is the same adapter I have been using for years, an apple mini-display port to DVI adapter. Supposedly this adapter is still compatible with the Thunderbolt port.
I've seen lots of issues online about wake up issues with the latest OS. Is there a workaround for this yet or do I have to uplug my monitor anytime I sleep the computer?

Hi Steve,
I have had the exact same issues after adding a WD Thunderbolt Duo external drive to a Mid 2011 iMac and then daisy chaining the Dell U2410 monitor off that.
My Mini DP to DVI cable ceased working properly - sleeps issues.
After buying one of these adapters of Ebay:
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/3-in-1-Mini-Displayport-to-HDMI-with-audio-DVI-DP-ada pter-3in1-convertor-Macbook-/110861703462?pt=US_Audio_Cables_Adapters&hash=item1 9cfdf5926
I then tried all the different cables that came originally with the Dell U2410 with that adapter, and none of then would put the U2410 to sleep properly. The backlight would stay on, or "No Displayport Cable" would float around the Dell display with the backlighting still on. Or otherwise the Dell would try to go to sleep and then wake up again and cycle like you found.
Apples Mini DP to VGA adapter was sleep successful with the VGA cable (Analogue) but the output picture was not as sharp as DVI or Displayport, plus there was RF interference with the cable.
After lots of internet searching I have found a near perfect solution:
A HDMI to DVI cable with the HDMI end connected to the Ebay 3 in 1 adapter, which then connects to the Thunderbolt port.
Connect this to DVI-D 1 on the Dell U2410.
On the Dell in Menu - Other Settings, disable DDC/CI
Now in OSX Settings - energy Saver you will have to tick:
"Put Hard Disks to sleep where possible" and select a short time frame for "Computer Sleep"
I have found that the display would go black but the backlighting on the Dell U2410 would stay on, when the display went to sleep on the Mac as per the Energy Saver "Display Sleep" setting.
The backlighting on the Dell would only turn off when the time for 'Computer Sleep" has elapsed and the external Thunderbolt hard disk went to sleep as well.
The Dell U2410 would then wake up correctly as well when my iMac woke, with this setup.
Cheapest solution for you would be to try an Apple or Ebay HDMI to DVI adapter and then use the DVI - DVI cable that came with the Dell.
If that fails get the 3 in one Adapter and use my Mini DP/Thunderbolt to Ebay Adapter to DVI-DVI cable setup.
I'm assuming your new Macbook Pro comes with the HDMI port ?
I believe the Sleep Issues with this monitor are all related to appropriate signal on the cable, and only the HDMI to DVI solution will work correctly on Mac's connected to the Dell U2410.
Good Luck. :-)

Mac mini keeps entering sleep mode

Hi. I have a Mac mini that has this annoying problem where it keeps
wanting to enter sleep mode. This problem seemed intermittent at first.
What I notice is that my mini would enter sleep mode whenever I try to
encode mp3. This seems reproducible. When it enters sleep mode,
I can wake it up by pressing the power button. However, it goes back
in sleep mode after a couple seconds after it wakes up. The only way
I can get it out of sleep mode is to quit iTunes and eject the audio
CD.
Things I've tried:
Energy Saver settings: Computer sleeps after 3 hours inactivity,
display sleeps after 3 hours inactivity, unchecked "Put hard disk(s)
to sleep when possible". I tried disabling energy save. No luck.
I also tried to uncheck "Allow Nap" box in the Processor settings.
However, it always checks this after a reboot.
If I insert a DVD movie, I can watch it w/o any interruption.
Anyone else seen this problem? Thanks in advance.
Jim

Hi Carl. I was unable to find com.apple.AutoWake.plist in my
system. Deleting com.apple.PowerManagement.plist didn't
help.
I decided to try your open firmware instructions. I like the
boot loader. It reminds me of the Sun's boot monitor.
I did the reset-nvram, set-defaults, reset-all. It didn't
help though.
I don't think it is my power supply, either. The reason why I
don't think this is the problem is I can watch DVD and listen
to audio CD just fine. My sleep problem would only occur
when I try to rip an audio CD. I can assure you that I draw
plenty of power just playing a DVD movie.
My guess is I have a power management configuration
issue or a hardware problem. Since this has a Unix core
underneath, I started poking around in the usual places
for log files. I found the familiar /var/log and stumbled
on system.log. Looking at the file, I found something
that caught my eye.
Aug 17 01:06:19 Jim-Fridlunds-Computer kernel[0]: Power Management received emergency overtemp signal. Going to sleep.
Doing a 'grep overtemp system.log', I got the following:
Aug 17 01:04:13 Jim-Fridlunds-Computer kernel[0]: Power Management received emergency overtemp signal. Going to sleep.
Aug 17 01:04:37 Jim-Fridlunds-Computer kernel[0]: Power Management received emergency overtemp signal. Going to sleep.
Aug 17 01:04:56 Jim-Fridlunds-Computer kernel[0]: Power Management received emergency overtemp signal. Going to sleep.
Aug 17 01:05:37 Jim-Fridlunds-Computer kernel[0]: Power Management received emergency overtemp signal. Going to sleep.
Aug 17 01:05:51 Jim-Fridlunds-Computer kernel[0]: Power Management received emergency overtemp signal. Going to sleep.
Aug 17 01:06:00 Jim-Fridlunds-Computer kernel[0]: Power Management received emergency overtemp signal. Going to sleep.
Aug 17 01:06:13 Jim-Fridlunds-Computer kernel[0]: Power Management received emergency overtemp signal. Going to sleep.
Aug 17 01:06:19 Jim-Fridlunds-Computer kernel[0]: Power Management received emergency overtemp signal. Going to sleep.
If you look at the time stamp, you'll see that each event
is only a few seconds apart. This matches with what
I was seeing. Machine goes to sleep. I press the power
button and it wakes up and goes back to sleep. One
big endless cycle. The only way I managed to get out
of it is to quit iTunes and to eject the CD.
Yes, I did install the Xcode 2 development kit that came
with the Mini MAC OSX setup. I eventually want to write
software for the Mac. So, I most likely installed the
CHUD tools package that you had mentioned.
I think the equivalent command line command for
disabling the nap feature is 'hwprefs -v cpu_nap=false'.
When I do that, I get the overtemp event and my mini
goes to sleep. Zzz.
In any case, my mini seems to be detecting false overtemp
condition. Either I have a bad temp sensor or my power
management overtemp threshold is set way too low. It's
possible encoding audio CDs is enough to heat up the
PPC core, but it happens way too fast. I'm thinking my
temperature sensors are not set correctly. If anyone has
schematics for the mini, it would most likely be a Dallas
temp sensor chip. I'm not ready to open up my mini yet
since it is still under warranty. I'll take it in the Apple
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2010 Mac Mini won't sleep

Hello, everything was working fine until I accessed my mac mini from my old iMac G4 to share some files. Now my new Mac Mini won't sleep. Here is what I have done. Ejected the Mac Mini on the iMac. Turned off the iMac, stopped sharing everything on the Mac Mini including files, my printer and iTunes media and reset the PRAM. Still the Mac Mini won't sleep. It's set to it's defaults of 10 minutes to sleep the monitor and itself but only the monitor goes to sleep after the 10 minutes. Very frustrated...

Hello Euchre and thank you for replying. I have unchecked all the boxes within the "Sharing" options that I checked some time ago. When I did that, sharing was automatically turned off. Still I am having the issue. I'll try putting the monitor at 9 minutes and the computer at 10 to see if that works. I'll be back. Thanks again, Ed

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My mac mini sleeps when I turn off my TV though it's preferences are set to not sleep. How can I change this, what com.plist do I have to delete? This is something new that just started on Monday. I swear the thing has a mind of it's own. I would like the mini to remain on in order for the DVR in EyeTV to record when I want the TV off.
Thanks in advance,
Marty

I just wanted to post back about this issue;
Wednesday night I had the DVR set to record at 8:00pm while watching tv shows in FR. Midway through the DVR recording I decided to turn off the TV. When I used the remote (Harmony 880), it powered down the TV and the mini went to sleep mode cutting off my DVR with 30 mins left to record. I had gotten used to the sleeping and tried to work around it. After trying the SMC tip and it not working, I figured this is just the way things are going to be, not perfect. I considered it might be an HDMI thing but found no answers anywhere. Last night I had an epiphony. It's got to be a default command in the 880's macro setting. I checked it out this morning and sure enough I'm not the only one, and considering how smart these Logi remotes are, there's luckily a workaround. I'll give it a shot tonight and fill you in tomorrow. I'm pretty sure this is the answer. The link to the forum is here;
http://forums.logitech.com/t5/Harmony-Remotes-Programming/Harmony-880-puts-Mac-m ini-to-sleep/m-p/383310
Marty

MacBook Pro Sleep issues

Hi
Does anyone have any sleep issues with their macbook pro?
When mine goes to sleep and i can wake it up but if i leave it to go into a deeper sleep i can't wake it up. tried using the keypad, touchpad, power button (even reseting), all that happens is it switches on but the screen doesn't come on and the sleep light flashes. The only way i can get it on is if i remove the magsafe connctor and the battery, then reconnect the magsafe and press the powerbutton, it wakes up and loads up to where i previously left off, then i can reconnect my battery. anyone also experienceing a muffled moo noise from their superdrive (every couple of minutes even when there is no disk inside)?
I have the 2.0ghz version with the faster graphics card, 100gb (7200rpm drive), apples 1gb ram, crucial 1gb ram. I'm going to take it down to my local applestore this weekend but i don't want them to hold on to it for such a long time.

I've had this same problem for a couple weeks now. At the Apple Store, they pulled my Crucial RAM and sent me packing. So, I gave the benefit of the doubt, returned the "bad stick" and got another. Same problem.
To be specific, mine would often restart instead of waking, or do nothing at all, forcing me to pop the battery out, or hold the power button to shut it off, then restart.
On my second trip to the store, today, they tried pulling the new Crucial RAM and replacing it with Apple RAM. That worked! So, they claim third party problems and I can't say they're wrong. However, it makes me wonder about proprietary settings in RAM, if that's even possible. I wonder if two sticks of Crucial RAM would work just fine? It's almost worth the try, as the cost is nearly half that of another 1GB of Apple RAM.
Not sure what I'm going to do as of today, might try another vendor for even less than Crucial to see if I have any luck, though I'm nervous to trust some other brand as though it might fix the sleep issue, it could be less reliable for more important usage.

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