Should G5 shut down when it goes to sleep?

I bought this G5 on eBay for a song (and I've been singing ever since) . It came without a disk, no accesss to the password and they had taken the Airport Card out. (Specks say it comes with the APCard) Serves me right I guess. Anyhow, It has always shut down right after it goes to sleep. Is there anything I can do to stop this? I work between two computers and sometimes I don't get right back to it. Restarting all the time is a real annoyance.

OK, the answer to the main question is "no" it shouldn't shut down when it goes to sleep. I would first open the Energy Saver panel in System Preferences and make sure that you have the machine set to never go to sleep. Here is a Tiger screen shot of that panel:
That should solve your immediate problem. The particular settings work very well for me, allowing me to put the computer to sleep from the Apple menu when I am not going to be using it for a while. You might also want to take a look at the "Schedule,,," area in the energy saver panel, as in this picture, to see that nothing is selected there.
Now, if the machine actually shuts down when you command it to sleep, then there are other issues we can work on.

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0xffffff81d363bd10 : 0xffffff7f80f27b24
0xffffff81d363bd30 : 0xffffff7f80f27f0f
0xffffff81d363bda0 : 0xffffff7f80ed67a7
0xffffff81d363be20 : 0xffffff7f80ecfc94
0xffffff81d363be60 : 0xffffff7f80f00295
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RAX: 0xffffff802e9bc240, RBX: 0xffffff80008ba500, RCX: 0xffffff8025a99e80, RDX: 0x0000cc6f00000000
RSP: 0xffffff81c94bfe60, RBP: 0xffffff81c94bfe90, RSI: 0x0000cc6fdf2c6744, RDI: 0xffffff80008ba500
R8: 0x000000001e0277e0, R9: 0x00000000000003d3, R10: 0xffffff80008baf70, R11: 0x00000000cccccccd
R12: 0xffffff8025a99e80, R13: 0xffffff800022a400, R14: 0xffffff80008ba4c0, R15: 0xffffff80008ba500
RFL: 0x0000000000000002, RIP: 0xffffff80002b3103, CS: 0x0000000000000008, SS: 0x0000000000000010
Backtrace (CPU 2), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff81c94bfce0 : 0xffffff80002c781c
0xffffff81c94bfd10 : 0xffffff80002c2790
0xffffff81c94bfd60 : 0xffffff80002d7d3f
0xffffff81c94bfe90 : 0xffffff800022a5fa
0xffffff81c94bfed0 : 0xffffff800023e75e
0xffffff81c94bff20 : 0xffffff80002b1df2
0xffffff81c94bff50 : 0xffffff80002c7859
0xffffff81c94bff80 : 0xffffff80002c2790
0xffffff81c94bffd0 : 0xffffff80002d7bd2
0xffffff81f03fbe50 : 0xffffff7f80a788d0
0xffffff81f03fbea0 : 0xffffff7f8095fcec
0xffffff81f03fbf20 : 0xffffff7f8095ffef
0xffffff81f03fbf40 : 0xffffff800063c091
0xffffff81f03fbf70 : 0xffffff800023db2c
0xffffff81f03fbfb0 : 0xffffff8000820057
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         com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI(4.5.5)[CAA2352E-D136-3656-ADF9-6BB3A42C2188]@0xff ffff7f80a73000->0xffffff7f80a89fff
            dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOUSBFamily(4.5.5)[4E51AA1E-079B-38B5-A56D-6F9D251FD7FF]@0xffff ff7f80942000
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BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
panic(cpu 3 caller 0xffffff80002a794e): "TLB invalidation IPI timeout: " "CPU(s) failed to respond to interrupts, unresponsive CPU bitmap: 0x5, NMIPI acks: orig: 0x0, now: 0x2"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-1699.24.8/osfmk/x86_64/pmap.c:2225
Backtrace (CPU 3), Frame : Return Address
0xffffff81d39ab160 : 0xffffff8000220702
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0xffffff81d39ab250 : 0xffffff80002aa4e6
0xffffff81d39ab2e0 : 0xffffff800027f76d
0xffffff81d39ab340 : 0xffffff8000273b0d
0xffffff81d39ab430 : 0xffffff80002748aa
0xffffff81d39ab460 : 0xffffff800026e7f2
0xffffff81d39ab490 : 0xffffff80002261f2
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0xffffff81d39abc00 : 0xffffff80003196d2
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0xffffff81d39abd70 : 0xffffff8000302ee0
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sorry for my bad english!
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When that happened to me a couple months ago with my Powerbook G4 it happened to be the battery itself. I did the apple battery exchange since there was a recall on my battery. I use my notebook primarily as a desktop replacement and hadn't noticed the problem until months later when I unplugged the notebook, seconds later the notebook would shutdown and even reset the system clock.
Applecare couldn't figure it out so I went to my friends house and swapped batteries to test and sure enough, when I put my battery into his computer, it shut his down and reset his clock.
Check the battery.

Computer shuts down instead of going to sleep (no battery)

Hi, I've checked some of the posts and notice that there are power management issues to these macs. I just picked up a used one and with no battery installed, if I go to Apple-sleep, the coomputer will shut off instead of sleeping. If in the energy settings, the computer is set to sleep at a given time, the computer will do a hard shutdown. I have it set to never sleep for now, but would like some guidance from the forum on how to deal with this power issue.
any ideas, thanks
Lisa

I've been having this problem for the last 4 months. I called Apple today and let them know about my MacBook which is only 1 year old. I've installed the battery update, reset the SMC and calibrated the battery, yet always when I reach about 45% my MacBook shuts down; I've never once ever had a low level warning.
Well, Apple asked for the serial # on the battery and then they told me that that serial # was not affected and that the Battery Update program is only for Apple Care customers. I told them their web site says nothing to the effect - they said regardless that I'll have to buy a new battery and I could not be helped; I'm not sure who to complain to since from what I have read, the problems I've had with my battery and the time period I bought the MacBook (directly from Apple) all point to the battery issue. I need someone to give some advice on who to call.
Here is the site i went to and the phone number I called is from there:
http://www.apple.com/support/macbook_macbookpro/batteryupdate/

Windown 8.1 shuts down when I click on Sleep/Hibernate

I have recently installed windows 8.1 and i have noticed that every time I click on sleep/hibernate, it shuts down the laptop and I loose all my work. Please provide a solution for this.
Thanks!

every time I click on sleep/hibernate, it shuts down the laptop and I loose all my work.
In my case of this symptom, I think there is a correlation with updating, so if I can remember to, I may try preventing network connections too. I have also threatened to try using Scheduling to prevent unattended updating. That was for Surface
RT which explicitly does not allow a simpler GPO solution. However, now that I have seen the same problem happen on Surface Pro I guess I should at least try the GPO solution on it. Thanks for the reminder. ; )
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/forum/surf2-surfupdate/a0-bugcheck/8fb37372-d10e-4978-bbe2-e7e95a83eaa3
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GPEdit finds in Configure Automatic Updates "Note: This policy does not apply to Windows RT."
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According to Event Viewer there was some kind of automatic updating done on my Surface Pro this morning and some kind of power problems but these details are even more obscure than they were on the Surface RT. I should probably enable the same "highly
detailed status messages" on the Surface Pro.
Robert Aldwinckle

Should G5 shut down when it goes to sleep?

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