PowerMac G5 Quad / Leopard / PCIe hw and Sleep Mode

After struggling to prevent my Quad from crashing whenever Sleep mode starts, I took it to a Genius bar. The ATI X1900 was found to be a cause and we replaced with the nVidia 7300. However ....
Any card I have added on the PCIe bus causes the issue: Sonnet Technologies Tempo E2P SATA, Sonnet Technologies Allegro FW400/USB and the above ATI video card.
The issue is not present with Tiger, so this is either Leopard or 3rd parties not updating drivers.
Anyone out there with similar / same issues or any additional insight?

Actually, this has been an issue since Tiger. This issue may be new to you but, in fact, it's one of the oldest issue that all Mac users face when running PCI controller cards, running Firewire interfaces and / or drives along with some USB hubs. Most of us that have dealt with this issue long ago just disable sleep and don't bother. Reason being is that no matter what was done, it would work for a short time the error out.
The root cause for failing sleep is: most controller cards do not support sleep. It's not related to the operating system but the controller cards. I run Cal Digit cards (you should check these out over the Sonnet by the way), Apogee audio interface cards and a top of the line Nvidia graphics card. As soon as any of these cards are installed there's going to be an issue with sleep.
I had this issue all the way back to my PPC machine running Tiger as well. Same thing. Different graphics card but still running controller cards. The only way I could get it to work was by removing all the controllers, all the hubs etc, and then clear the powermanagment system clock to zero along with the system counter in Terminal. Sleep worked without issue running stock. However, as soon as the controller cards were installed sleep no longer worked.
Good luck.

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All, After updating my MacBook Pro to 10.5.2 and the Leopard Graphics update, my computer will not longer enter sleep mode after a specified time. I can manually set the computer to sleep mode, but it will not automatically go to sleep mode. I have tried resetting the System Management Control Center VIA http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303319 and everything else in that doc.
Any suggestions?
TIA Jon

Call AppleCare and see if they can help.
Regular trouble shooting
1) Create a new account, name it test or something
2) log into that account to see if the behavior changes
3) If it does, then there is some problem in your own account.
4) If it doesn't, restart.
5) If the behavior still doesn't change, there is some system configuration error
In this case
6) Open Disk Utility. Verify your disk, then repair permissions (not likely to fix the problem but will at least eliminate that possibilty)
7) Get a copy of Leopard Cache Cleaner and do a MODERATE cache cleaning
8) Restart
If still not fixed, reset PRAM and the SMU. Look on the Apple web site for instructions for your particular computer.
If still not different, do an Archive and Install. However go to the Apple web site and download the 10.5.2 Combo updater first. After you Archive and Install from either the disk that came with your computer (assuming that it is Leopard) or the retail Leopard installer. Then run the combo updater. Then run Software Update.
These problems are disturbing and really shouldn't happen, but they do. However, they can be fixed and you'll find that Mac OS is, overall, much better than the alternatives.
BTW, I just went through this whole mess for crashes on wake from sleep (USB issues) and failure to sleep (printer driver issue). Another computer had DHCP problems and actually needed a reinstall. However both of them are working fine now even though it was a pain getting there.
- gws
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I got this laptop less than a year ago and I am kinda getting upset about my decision buying it. It is the GT70 Dominator Pro with the GTX880M graphics card.
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Try update IRST driver.
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Can someone from Lenovo please advise me on which version drivers need to be installed for the external keyboard and mouse, and/or the proper power setting(s) to use with this configuration so the machine will react and wake up from its nap with a Fn+F4 on the external keyboard?
T61 7658-CTO, 3GB RAM, Vista Business Ultimate. These are the external IBM/Lenovo devices used:
250410U     THINKPAD ADVANCED MINI DOCK
31P9490    IBM USB TRAVEL KEYBOARD W/ULTRANAV
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I have an issue with waking my T61 up from sleep mode while it’s docked and using the external keyboard, mouse, and monitor. When the machine is docked, the blue Fn keys or the Think Vantage button do not function on the external keyboard.
The external keyboard seems to be the same as the internal keyboard installed in the TP- which I thought would react the same as the internal keyboard when I installed the driver that it came with. I had hoped something this simple would be easier than it now seems.
Thanks in advance!
Cheers, Mark
Message Edited by masnider on 12-16-2008 03:33 PM
Message Edited by masnider on 12-16-2008 03:42 PM
Message Edited by masnider on 12-16-2008 03:42 PM

Thanks for the advice Izzy. After installing both sets of keyboard and hotkey drivers it does respond to most (but not all) blue Fn key combinations as marked on the external keyboard. The blue ThinkVantage button still does not respond.
Oddly enough, I am able to use the Fn+F4 key combination to put it into sleep mode and to bring it back out, but when the display comes back I have no control of the UltraNav pad, track pointer, or mouse. I had to open the TP cover slightly and use the pad to get past the login screen to the desktop.
Incidently, just after using the UltraNav pad on the machine as it was slightly open a couple of messages popped up onscreen involving the USB port(s). One indicated it was searching for a new device driver for a USB connected device, and the other indicated I could benefit from connecting the device to a high- speed USB port by unpluging the low-speed hub and connecting directly to an available high-speed USB port.
Interestingly, I don't have any external hub connected. It may have identified the docking station USB ports as low-speed, which I don't believe they are...any ideas for what to do with this new set of issues?
Thanks, Mark

Having issues with 13" MacBook Pro. Running very slow and blank screen and sleep mode.

Bought my MBPro summer 2009. About a month / 6 weeks ago it began to run extremely slow at points. Now it is running poorly and getting very slow on a daily basis, to the point where it will not open applications, documents or even web pages for in excess of 5 minutes. I'm beginning to lose patience!
Also at the exact same time of these performance issues occuring, my MacBook Pro will not awaken from sleep mode when the lid is closed. Showing a blank dark screen and having to hard reset in order to boot up my system again and get it running.
What is the best solution in order to resolve these issues?
Your help is greatly appreciated.

Did you run Disk Utility>First Aid? If so what were the results? This is a copy of mine, note that the bottom line says: The partition map appears to be OK:
Ciao.

Thinkpad X240's and Sleep mode/Hibernate

Hi,
We're having a problem across 4 Lenovo X240 laptops we're using (3 X 20AL-008EUK's and 1 X 20AL-0081UK) that have been bought at different times (1 in January and 3 in February)
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On a couple of units I noticed that pressing on any keys on the keyboard would emit the windows error sound, and using ctrl alt del and entering the users password would seem to login suggesting that the graphics driver had failed.
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Solved!
Go to Solution.

Hello,
A client of mine brought me Lenovo X240 that wouldn't resume from sleep if you tried to resume it something like 20 minutes or more after it been put to sleep (If you resumed it after a minute or 2 it DID resume).
Lenovo replaced the X240 motherboard because of the client complains, But he said that it just increased the number of times it didnt resumed from one in 7 times to one in 2-3 times.
He also complined that when he connects headphones they doesn't work, But that was solved by updating the audio driver to a newer one.
I started reading lot of posts regarding the resume problem. Lenovo support suggested to him to do a factory restore, But he had activated accounting software on his computer and I tried not to use the factory reset option.
I tried all of the suggestions given with this issue, Here are some :
1. Updating bios
2. updating all drivers (From Lenovo site and then from Driverpack 14.4 dvd)
3. removing fingerprint software and disabling it in the bios and device manager
4. removing relevant drivers (power management, card reader and other related) and reinstalling after restart
5. playing with power management settings of network card
None of these worked, So I decided to keep a try for the system restore
After system restore and instalation of latest drivers (From lenovo and the Driverpack), It still DID NOT resumed from sleep after 20 minutes of sleep or so.I decided to install an image of windows 7 ultimate 32 bit for the test.After installing all the drivers it STILL wasn't solved !!!! Grrrrrr
I gave up......For few hours (Mostly because I needed to get some sleep for next day fights LOL)
Next I resumed the backup of the system I made in case I needed it, And since I saw a poster that mentioned he removed NVIDIA and Intel graphics drivers as one of the proceeses that helped him solved the problem, I tried to fiddle with it.
BUTTOM LINE After updating display drivers from intel site to 10.18, The sleep problem was resolved but then a new problem appeared - Wifi being disabled after resume from 20 minute sleep......Fiddled with it more and rolled back to earliest 17.0.0.34 drivers and now it seems to work fine.
Maybe this solution will help you. GOOD LUCK !!!

HT5313 How about fixing the bugs in iCal? and Sleep Mode?

The 10.7.5 update sure has a lot of fluff patches. When is Apple going to fix something important, like all the bugs in iCal? And the bugs in Sleep Mode?
Examples:
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• Network Issues: iChat sessions via Bonjour have to be manually restarted after coming out of sleep.
• Disks mounted over the network dismount during sleep.
• Screen Saver doesn't play well with other apps: I lock the screen when I'm away from my desk. If Firefox starts using all available CPU time while the screen saver is on, screen saver won't exit. This can make it very difficult to get control of the machine.
How about a patch for the above?
I'm a professional software engineer, so spare me the Blame The Customer tactics.

PS. Best Example:
• Last week I almost missed an appointment because iCal decided I wanted to be alerted to this event 9 hours after it happened. ... Maybe you think I typed it into iCal wrong. So what if I did? WHO THE #@$! WANTS AN ALERT *AFTER* AN EVENT HAPPENS? Why is it even an option?

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Thanks in advance!

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T440 - solid state drives and sleep mode, shutting down, etc.

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Moderator Note; subject edited; system type added

Hi again,
1. The red dot over the i in ThinkPad will pulse slowly when your machine is in sleep mode.
2. Yes, absolutely. I use sleep instead of shut down almost exclusively on all machines I use
on a daily basis.
3. Same as before, you don't have to worry about doing anything different. The machine won't
run out of battery during sleep mode for days.
4. It doesn't matter wether you run Windows 7 or 8, you use your browser settings to set it to
open the tabs where you left off.
In Internet Explorer -> Internet Options -> General Tab -> Startup -> Start with tabs from the last session.
In Chrome -> Settings -> On Start Up - Continue where you left off.
Same option is available for Firefox too.
But if you shut your machine down, your programs won't start up automatically with the files you had open
before shutdown, but I'm sure you meant to say sleep, right? When you resume from sleep, everything you
had open will be right there.
5. No, not really. It's just a new generation of a ThinkPad workhorse with a new version of Windows, you
don't have to change any of your daily routines you've gotten used to.
Cheers,
Atli Jarl.
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I first posted this post in the installation forum and then realized the question is more relevant to this forum:
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Hannes.S wrote:
Hi tjk,
thank you for your reply.
I will do that, if there is no other solution. I just thought, it'll be better to know what's the problem with my mac...
But probably you're right, this will be the best solution.
The repair techs would be the best person to ask that.

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