Sleeping screen locks out Mac

Hi
Have Mac pro, cinema screen sleeps on schedule, then won't wake up and locks me out of machine, have to hold power button till machine shuts down, then restart machine then ok, till the next time, has happened twice in last week, but never before,
have all updates.
Anybody help
Thanks
Tone39

Two random thoughts: in your sleep preferences: do you have checked the box to put the hard drive to sleep whenever possible? If so, see if it doesn't do it when you uncheck the box. It shouldn't make a difference, but...
Or: what are you doing to wake the computer up? Mouse or keyboard? Have you tried both?

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