Sleep light - turning it off or down!

... Is this at all possible, i use my mac as a server, its in sleep mode for the majority of the time except between 1am and 7am but the sleep light is a pain lighting up the whole room in the evenings!
Can i turn it off??!
Simon

Yes — by covering it with a piece of black electrical tape. There is no other way.

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As soon as I hit the power button again, the sleep light came on and the optical drive made a little noise, and after one second the light went off and everything shut down again. If I HOLD the power button down then the sleep light stays on for five seconds, flashes rapidly for two seconds, goes off for one second, then back on for a second before finally shutting completely down again. Repeatable.
I do have a Snow Leopard DVD in the drive, but that shouldn't make any difference. I can't eject it either by holding down the eject button while powering up.
I've tried removing battery and power and holding down the power button for a long time. No help.
Any ideas on how to get it alive again?

No start-up chime.
The only noise that can be heard is the hard disk and the optical drive powering up, the power LED lights up, then ONE second after hitting the power button it shuts itself off.
The best way I could think to duplicate getting it in this state is to press the power-on button and immediately shut the display lid. I would assume the timing of closing the lid has to be right at an inopportune time in the startup sequence.

How do I make my iMac screen completely black - without sleep or turning it off?

I have somebody sleeping in my office who finds the light from my iMac disturbing, even when it's turned down to the lowest level.
Is there an easy way, just for a few days, to make the screen completely black at night - I don't want it to sleep or to switch it off so I can use it early in the morning remotely.

What you are suggesting, puts the computer to sleep. just what fusbariclation does not want to do. He/she just wants to put the display to sleep.
On my iMac, my Macbook Pro, my Wife's Macbook Air and her Macbook Pro the Control-Shift-Eject just turns off the screen, but the iMac continues to run, which if very important for me, as my iMac is a web server for the rest of my team at work. I generally hit Control-Shift-Eject as I'm leaving the office every night.
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Friend of mine has an intel iMac, I have an iMac PPC-G5. He told me that it's better to ALWAYS leave the computer on. Instead of doing a complete shutdown, one should log out and select sleep. The computer will last longer. Anyone got any thoughts or inside information where I can find out if this is good advice or not? Thank you. Standing by.

I guess I completely disagree with leaving a computer on 24/7 unless it's used as a server as part of a network. I just can't see the sense in leaving a computer turned on when not in use for several hours. I don't leave the TV on, the radio on, or the car running when I'm not using them. If I don't plan to use my computer for several hours (six or more), I shut it down. Doesn't matter how much energy it uses.
During my career at a large semi-conductor company, we all shut our computers off at the end of the day. They lasted for years. The idea of it being hard on the hard drive and electronics to shut it down and then back on is a myth in my estimation. As a matter of fact, it think it does the electrolitic capacitors good to exercise.
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You may have to take the MBP to the Apple store as soon as possible.
Best.

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BUMP.
I actually showed this to Apple geniuses when I took my computer to the apple store, and it's still here. In console it says:
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Before I tell you, I should tell you that you should search before you post. Because there are many people who have asked this already.
But anyways, it's up to you, but if you turn it off completely (with the red slider) and then turn it on, it will drain a lot of battery. Even when in sleep mode with music off, it will still drain battery but very, very tiny bit, but you won't notice it. If you plan on using it a lot, then put it in sleepmode.

Am I damaging my laptop by turning it off?

I hope this is the right place to ask this, if not I apologize.
A few years ago, I was told by a computer sales associate that leaving your laptop on permanently is bad. I believed him because I owned a Sony at the time that had worn down rather rapidly. I had a habit of leaving it on for long periods of time so I just figured I had messed it up doing so.
So now that I have a Macbook Pro, I want to take good care of it. So when I go to class, I turn it off. I could be gone anywhere between 3 hours and 8 hours. When I go to sleep I turn it off as well. I could sleep anywhere between 4 hours and 10 hours (I know, that's a lot >.>). I figured I was keeping it in good shape, I even monitor how much power my battery has left so it's not always plugged in and sticking at 100%.
But I've been reading up on this issue and most people seem to be saying that only restarting your computer occasionally is fine. I've even seen where people have left their computers on for months. I don't really feel comfortable doing that...but what made me wonder is a post made by someone on another forum saying that turning your computer off could be worse for it because you are constantly making it stop and restart. He even suggested that if you are only leaving it off for, say, 4 hours or so, to just leave it Hibernate instead.
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Six of one... half dozen of another. The charging components will not allow your battery to overcharge. There is no harm leaving it plugged in (at least with respect to the possibility of over charging). It is important that you use your machine on battery from time to time as the battery needs to be exercised in order to perform well. Apple recommends calibrating your battery (which involves fully discharging and recharging the battery) every few months:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1490
Typically when people are referring to never turning off their machines... they are not referring to always leaving them on. Basically, most people put their Macs to sleep. This happens when you close the lid and the system goes into an ultra low power state where only the contents of the RAM are maintained so the machine can be awakened quickly by opening the lid.
Here is Apple's recommended battery care guidelines:
http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html
It's basically not necessary to turn off your machine when you're not using it... but unless you are constantly turning it on and off, there's not much harm in shutting it down either if you wish to do so. The vast majority of Mac users do not regularly shut down their machines. If others post here, I would expect they would say the same. That should pretty much tell you that you don't need to shut your machine down.

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Hi,
I don't know if this is an 'Apple' issue but I have a setup that works great exept one small thing...
I have a Mac Mini G4. I use it to play my iTunes Library (connected to my stereo) and as a DVD Player (connected to my TV with a HD cable).
Since the Mini only has a 40GB hard disc, I connected an Lacy 500GB Harddrive. It is self powered (so with it's own plug in the wall).
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If not. Will it help if I use an external HD that is not self powered?

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Hello every one! Since I ever got my iBook 5 months ago, I have noticed theres no sleep light... one day, when I was in a hurry, I closed the lid a bit too hard, and the sleep light turned for a half of a second, then it was gone... any suggestions?

The sleep light board plugs into the logic board. If extra pressure made it turn on briefly, it sounds like the connection might be loose. it would take a fair amount of disassembly to check the connection and plug the connector in securely. If the iBook was taken apart for servicing at some point, it's possible that the sleep light wasn't reconnected properly and is loose in its socket.
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http://www.ifixit.com/
You will have to decide for yourself if it's worth the effort.
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hi,
try inserting the cd install to boot on diagnostic
Press D during startup
take an apointment with applestore
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Change display close actions, and turn off sleep light

I know apple doesn't like to make these things easy to change but here goes... my powerbook is in my bedroom. when I close the lid, I must put something in front of the glowing sleep light or it keeps ME awake. is there a way to disable it? or does this fall into the same category as moving the song name column out of the first position in itunes? apple has made a decision (based on who knows what input) and the end user is stuck with it...?
while we're at it: can I change the action performed when I close the lid? lock my user account but don't put the computer to sleep, for example? leave everything as it is but just turn off the display? mute the volume? show that I'm still online but attach an away message in adium? these are all things I could do with windows (tho I would never switch back) and I'm not sure why it seems so hard to do things like this with a mac.

Welcome to the forum.
If you're in to tech,you can read this.
Description and modification of the different hibernate modes
When the computer goes into sleeping mode, its behavior depends on a power management variable called hibernate mode. The hibernate mode can be set to different values:
* 0 : Default sleep behavior on most Apple computers. RAM is still powered on while sleeping. Wake up is fast. Safe sleep is disabled.
* 1 : Hibernation behavior. System is totally shut down while sleeping. RAM contents are dumped to disk. Wake up is slow.
* 3 : Default behavior on Powerbook HD computers. RAM is still powered on while sleeping. Wake up is fast. Safe sleep is enabled, so RAM contents are also dumped to disk before going to sleep.
Only a single mode can be activated at a time. In order to check what hibernate mode is currently active, the following command can be used in the Terminal application:
pmset -g | grep hibernatemode
In addition, users with administrator privileges can choose the hibernate mode. In order to do so, the following command can be used:
sudo pmset -a hibernatemode X
with X replaced by the value of the hibernate mode to set. You will be asked to enter your admin password. It will not be echoed.

Possible to turn off MBP Sleep Light?

The sleep light on my MBP is bright. The pulsing can actually wake me up. Is it possible to turn it off?
The iMac G5 got a "Sleep Indicator Light" update that turns it off at night. I'm not sure if it's configurable or not, but even if it's not, the MBP could use the same update.
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The solution is quite easy... actually the same for getting that nasty blinking "12:00" off your VCR
Place electrical tape over it...
But seriously - you may want to go to an auto parts store - they sell "chrome tape pinstriping".
Cut out the pinstriping to the size of the button, and you have your solution.
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