TC and HD sleeping issues

When my iMac, 27" 10.6.2 goes to sleep the Time Capsule fails to function when it awakens, Airport Utility can't even see it..... At first I reset, messed with set up, etc. Finally I figured out restarting the Mac fixed the problem. Now I've adjusted the HD energy settings to lack of sleep, is this normal for TC? I'm using this thing currently only for backups, wirelessly joining my existing network.

Hi Tom,
I did not find receipts in the library in my home folder. I finally found it on the hard drive. I trashed that, all files associated with QT in the library and QT Player. I restarted the computer and tried to install QT 7.2 and am told there is still a newer version on the HD.
I take it when you say start from the ground up you are indicating that a install with back up to previous systems (like I did yesterday) is not the answer. A complete HD erase with reinstalling all software (FCE, Adobe CS2, etc) is the way to go?
I have been on with tech support for 3 days and no one even mentioned QT as an issue.
Thanks.

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Another issue I have is I'll come out of sleep, and the wallpaper on my screen disappears, and I just see a gray background. If I go to Monitor preferences, it claims the wallpaper is set to my normal background. Restarting has the background display again.
Note: I often use a external monitor, so good chance these freezing issues happen when I unplug/plug in the external monitor (via DVI cable to DisplayPort converter to MBP)
Today I had a slightly different experience with the freezing. It had my second monitor have a bunch of pixelated garbage and a message about holding power button down and restarting. I restarted, and got a "your system has crashed unexpectedly" like message, so I told it to send the data to Apple.

I used to have that problem as well, try going to system preferences and having the computer require a password after waking, worked for me.

990FXA-GD80 sleep and post-sleep issues

Hi,
I've recently upgraded to an MSI 990FXA-GD80 motherboard paired with an AMD 8320 Black Edition CPU. My previous set-up was with an MSI 790FX-GD70 and AMD Phenom II X4 955 BlackEdition. I also put in a new PSU (see below).
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Rather than do a complete reinstall, I simply removed all of the old drivers that I could, replaced the hardware, and let windows do its thing with the updates. Then ran LiveUpdate and cleaned up any further remnant drivers I could find. Everything seemed to work fine.
The RAM is running at auto frequency, timings and voltage - I know this is under its rated values, but I wanted to make sure everything was in good shape before mucking about with OC settings.
I'm having a few minor issues though.
When the board goes in to sleep mode after being left alone for a while, it can only be woken by hitting the power switch. After a search of these forums, I see that can be altered in the BIOS - no problem.
Once the board wakes from sleep, however, performance is extemely sluggish. Load times for games more than double, and frame rates drop to about 30-40% of where they were before.
Rebooting fixes this, but I really shouldn't have to be doing that every time the board goes to sleep.
Would updating the BIOS help with these issues (I've read a few negative comments about v 13.1)? If so, which version?
Are there some power management, or other settings, in the BIOS that are causing the RAM or CPU to only partially wake up?
How can I stop the motherboard going in to sleep mode at all? I'm pretty sure I found a BIOS setting to do this on my last board, but am missing it on this one.
Any ideas?
Thanks (in advance).

Yea..I've seen a lot of odd stuff. I don't blame MSI, I think it's a combination of the newer UEFI BIOS, all the green power stuff, and BIOS changes to make Windows 8 compatible. Every motherboard seems to have it's quirks these days.
You are basically doing what I do now. My computer is set to never sleep, and monitors off in 15. I normally turn my computer off manually when I'm done with it, unless I'm downloading from Steam or something...then I want it to keep running. So this "work around" has me happy.
I hear you on the clean install. It's such a pain in the butt getting all my software back in order. I literally spend a week just getting all my games downloaded from Steam, lol. I'm riding the AM3 platform until I absolutely no longer can.
The good news, our CPUs, while never being as fast as their Intel counterparts clock for clock will get faster over time as the software industry get's more and more in line with multi-core programs. Just keep feeding them new vidoe cards.

Sleep issue 10.4.8

Well another update another sleep issue. It won't sleep auto or manually. Yes I unplug all, backed up all, repaired permissions before and after upgrade. Anyone having sleep issues as well?

There have been many sleep issues since 10.6 and before, check the post they are there. The deep sleep issues seem to effect USB cards and firewire drives. Mostly ones added later as I updated to USB 2, firewire 800, and external drive. I checked compatibility before purchasing and only purchased ones with success records. Since 10.6 each has failed to meet the updates. If you track the IOUSBfamily.ktext updates you can see the version and dates for updates.
First I used Software Update from the Apple menu. The sleep issue returned. So I looked in the system/library/extension folder and discovered that the IOUSBFamily.kext file had not changed from version 2.2.8, which was the one from 10.4.6 that had fixed our sleep issue. I figured that this would have been changed because there is mention of USB issues being handled in this update. So I ran the Combo update and all is well again and I have an unmodified system folder that sleeps with USB, as it should.... Funny thing is this new version is 2.5.6 that is the same version that was replaced as the fix.
However this was only a temporary fix I went back to version 2.2 dated 29 March 2005 and my sleep issues were fixed. I do agree this is a pain and Apple should address or at least keep consistent but Apple is updating its system not third party compatibility. It would be nice if they did but they never have paid much attention to third party hardware vendors. They want you/me to buy a new computer. Presumably that is dilemma when buying both hardware and software from the same company. It’s not much of a problem compared to Wintel machines and I'll never buy one of those.
Fortunately I'll stick with Apple and these discussions to help repair what Apple doesn't. It has worked for decades.
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Battery and Sleep issues. Is this "normal"?

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Reset the SMC (System Management Controller) and re-calibrate the Battery then see how it behaves ...

Macbook Pro and external monitor sleep issues.

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. :-)

Sleep issues and Ethernet

On my fp iMac, running 10.4.11:
A relatively new (roughly the past ten days) issue has arisen. I think I've narrowed it down to when the machine is woken up from sleep. I can't get on the internet nor can I connect to my other two machines from the 'Go > Connect to Server ...' command. A restart seems to temporarily sort the problem out.
System Preferences exhibits odd behaviour when I go to the Network Pane while being cut of from the internet. This machine is connected to an Airport Extreme Base Station via Ethernet cable. In the Network Status window, the Ethernet button is red instead of green, and the following message is displayed:
+The cable for Built-in Ethernet is connected, but your computer does not have an IP address and is not connected to the internet.+
When I try and close the System Preferences window, I get the spinning beach ball. I have to use Force Quit twice in order to quit System Preferences. It's at this point I do a restart.
In the past week I've used OnyX, DiskWarrior (twice), I've shut down and unplugged the AEBS and the broadband modem overnight as well as shutting down the computer, and yesterday I reset the PMU - almost in desperation. Two days ago I downloaded and installed the 10.4.11 combo updater.
At present I've got the machine set to screen sleep only, no hard disk sleep.
When it was set with hard disk sleep as well, it seemed that all was well until a few hours of normal use (including being woken from sleep) had passed before the problem arose.
I might be wrong about sleep being an issue, but certainly the behaviour from System Preferences > Network is consistently the same.
Can anyone shed some light here?

Ok for the sleep issue the link from fishcomputer has some steps in for these type of issues but there something that more then likely is causing isssue with sleep.
I would try the following
Remove the powermanagement.plist located in mac hd/ library/ preferences/ systemconfiguration/com.apple.powermanagement.plist delete that then restart
For Microsoft issue i would try the following
Boot into safe boot by holding shift at startup until you see apple and gear may also see loading bar once in safe boot remove the following folders
MacHD/System/Library/Caches
MacHD/Library/Caches
User library Caches and cookies folder
Restart.
Since you are in lion you can't remove the folders from Hd need to just remove contents of the folder

Sleep issue and USB 2.0 card

I recently installed an Allego 2.0 USB card, recommended by Apple, into my G4 1.25 Dual. The card works great but now I cannot put the computer to sleep. Whether by button or command the monitor goes dark but the G4 is still awake plus I can't bring it back without a cold boot. Tech support said this was an issue, offered some tips and said if all fails get a different card. I bought Iomega's as an experiement and same problem! Anybody else have this issue and could you solve it?
Thanks.
Bill

Hi Joe,
Yes, my mac usually sleeps just fine. My own sleep is another issue but that is for another forum.
A couple of years ago I was on another forum and saw a post claiming a fully functional usb2 card for $9. I bought it and it worked slick as could be. It was a no name, no box, no instructions, bare card but the price was good and it came with a usb2 cable. I then posted as many times as I could to others about that site and the card. About a year later the link broke and I went back to the site. The had a card that looked the same, had the same chipset, and was the same price but the manufacturer had changed some components. The second card did not work as well as the first.
Since then the same thing has happened to all of the makers of usb 2 cards. Something on the card changes and breaks sleep. It's not your fault. It's not the vendor's fault, it is the manufacturers fault. By the way, the manufacturers are usually not the name you see on the box. Companies buy from a manufacturer and slap their lable on the box.
Keep trying and you will eventually find one.
One guy went so far as to pay Belkin extra money for one of the older cards but it worked.

Flash drives and sleep issues

I'm not sure if this is a Tiger problem or a G4 issue, but I'll start here.
I plug 1Gb flash drives into an Adaptec FW+USB2 card in my Quicksilver running 10.4.11 and the computer will go to sleep fine. Read on.
With a SanDisk drive when I wake up the computer it gives me an error message about the drive not having been properly removed, but the computer does wake up and the drive icon is still present and the drive appears to be okay. Apart from having to click to remove the warning message nothing seems to be the problem. Okay, I can live with that.
I do the same thing with an Imation 1Gb flash drive and the computer will not wake up. I have to use the small reset button to reboot the computer.
Both drives are FAT16 format because I use them to regularly transfer files between the Quicksilver and a Windows machine. The only difference I notice between the drives is that when I use the Imation drive a file or folder or something named "EA" briefly appears in the Finder window where all the regular files are listed. There isn't any icon and there's nothing under date, size, or kind. If I click on the EA it disappears, but reappears each time I attach the drive.

Update and answer my own question.
I re-formatted the Imation drive as FAT16 (what is was already) using disk Utility and the strange file has disappeared. Must have been something to do with the factory formatting.
I also read that the only thing to do about Flash drives and post-sleep kernal panic is to make sure you disconnect the drive before sleep. Either that or get a card that will identify a flash drive as being attached and prevent sleep, or to disable sleep mode.

Windows 8.1, secureboot and sleep issues

Hi,
I'm a technet subscriber so have access to Win8.1. Just tried it and ran into some issues which I think are bios related. (My motherboard is X79A-GD65 (8D) and I'm running bios 4.3.)
First when I installed Win8.1 a watermark is stuck on the desktop which says "SecureBoot isn't configured correctly" along with the build number, 9600.
So I went to bios and saw Windows 8 settings and enabled them, now the watermark is gone but there is not sleep option in windows (which I use alot)
going back to bios and disabling Win8 features brings sleep back but also the secureboot watermark......
Anyone else run into this?

I can't help with the SecureBoot issue. I have the same problem with my videocard not being SecureBoot compatible (A GTX 670). The sleep issue though, is it an issue with like... you can only hibernate, but you can't sleep? Windows 8 didn't come with that for me, but I found a work around.
Open a command prompt with administrator privilege and type: powercfg /hibernate off
This should change the hibernate to sleep.
If you want an icon for it just make a batch file: rundll32 powrprof.dll,SetSuspendState (0,1,0)
And if you need a timer on it (I use this pretty often myself) use this: powershell sleep <seconds> | rundll32 powrprof.dll SetSuspendState (0,1,0)
And if you're curious about the (0,1,0) thing. It's all boolean, so 1 or 0. (A,B,C), A: Hibernate, B: Critical (in XP/2003 it forces the sleep, but in newer versions it asks for permission to suspend), C: Disable wake event (Wake on LAN would be disabled if this were 1, for example).

More no sleep issues and sleep troubleshooting

My one year old 20" Intel iMac Core 2 duo has just started not scheduled sleeping (will sleep when directed though...you know what I mean)...this really makes me mad because it's so hard to fix. I had this happen on my old G5 iMac and it took a month and two visits to the Mac geniuses to figure out. Anyway here are the things I tried with direction from this board and an Apple CS rep. (still no joy):
-removed all USB and firewire devices except keyboard and mouse
-made sure bluetooth is turned off (i had a bluetooth mouse that used to wake up my old G4 iBook)
-made sure that windows sharing is off as well as printer sharing and personal file sharing (even though OSX is perfectly capable of sleeping with printer sharing and personal file sharing on while other computers are not connected. Not so with Windows file sharing on in my experience)
-internet sharing off
-reset PRAM
-reset SMU
-deleted cache
-repaired disk permissions
-booted from install disk and repaired disk (no repairs were necessary according to disk utility)
-trashed preferences file (ouch, this really ***)
-created new user account to test and still won't sleep
-booted in safe mode (sleep works!!!!! but only in safe mode)
These are the thing's I've tried...if there's anything any one can recommend on top of these please reply. Since this has been such a pervasive problem with non-laptop Macs I'd really love to see a troubleshooting flow chart for these sleep issues. I'd write it myself if I could get some guidance on which procedure to try first and so on...
Dennis (den.thed) seems to be the sleep guru. If you've got time to weigh in I'd appreciate it before I format my HD and start from zero day.
Cheers, -JV

One thing that work for me was the following: I did all the hints possible but nothing worked until I decided to look at the Console logs, something was preventing the system from going to sleep, I looked at the logs and I had a repeating message: "com.apple.nis.ypbind: domainnname not set. aborting...throttling respawn:will start in 10 sec" it means its an active process. In fact there is a thread here that points toward this message. The message went away with the following fix: in Terminal I typed: sudo domainname example.com ,upon entering I noticed that the Console messages stopped immediately. So the next step was to observe if the computer would sleep on its own and YES it did.
So this may not fix your sleep issues if there is another process involved, but I think the symptoms are very similar. I have also read that some caches folders are corrupt (if upgrading from Tiger) and since repairing permissions is a whole 'nother story these may not be purged at all thus causing conflicting processes and misdirected maintenance scripts that run in the background. If anything new I will kee posting. hope it works

Sleep issues and strange message in console

Hi all,
For the last month or so, the only way to sleep my Mac Pro is via the apple menu, it won´t sleep automatically as programmed by system preferences. I have read other posts, and the only solution seems to be the use of PleaseSleep, right?
I also have this console message every time I wake the computer or display from sleep: "loginwindow[48]: in pamsmauthenticate(): Failed to determine Kerberos principal name"
Does anybody know if this could be related to the sleep issues?
Thanks in advance

Hello:
Your English is excellent...far better than some who claim it is their mother tongue
My answer was a bit flippant, sorry
I looked at my own logs after reading your last post. I note all sorts of incomprehensible (to me) messages - some indicating errors. I have no clue what the sandbox messages indicate.
The other problems could be caused by a number of things - including hardware problems.
You might try resetting the PRAM and SMC. Those are not cure alls, but they cannot hurt anything either.
Barry

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?
Time Machine ought to work in Safe Mode; and I would not suggest working that way for a lengthy period of time: just to start it up perhaps to clear something that is interfering. But what you write here is of interest: (A) The HD -- what is it (brand, etc, and how formatted) and how connected; plus the wireless mouse? What brand is that (and I presume you mean Bluetooth)?
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.

10.9.2 update sleep issue with NEC monitors confirmed

After updating from Mac OS10.9.1 to 10.9.2, both my friend, who lives in another city, and I find that attempting to put our MacPros (2010, think his is a 2009 model) attached to a NEC PA 301 (mine) or PA 271 (his) series pro monitors to sleep experience a frozen screen and cursor followed about a minute later with an expected and desired sleep mode. My computer does something slightly different than his in that the background of the dock turns a golden yellow when the screen freezes. Both systems start up from sleep correctly.
If I only use my Apple 30 inch Cinema Display, the sleep mode works as expected.
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.
Any thoughts of wisdom of what is going on with the sleep issue that occurred right after we put the 10.9.2 update?

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.
As far as going back to 10.9.1, didn't you do a back-up before you did an Apple "fix" that you can go back to? My problem is that every day my calendar, documents, email, etc change a lot so I am reluctant to go back to my back-up which I hate to say is only on TimeMachine now. My other backups (mirror copies) occur nightly and I didn't notice this bug till a day later.
You pay good money for only quality equipment so a wierd bug like this should not occur on a little update.
I have reported this to Apple and NEC but need others to light a fire under those in charge to make a change and not have us wait for one or two updates later.
If you want to request NEC to jump in to getting this fixed, send a message to the NEC monitor product manager (Art Marshall): [email protected]

S3 Sleep Issue with DKA790GX Platinum

Upon waking from S3 sleep, my cpu fan and rear case fan run 300rpm's slower than before the system goes into sleep mode and they never recover speed. The front case fan returns to normal speed. I am seeing the speed difference in Speedfan as well as HWMonitor and can hear the difference as well. I have the case fan set to 75 percent in Bios and the CPU fan at 75 percent with speed-up starting at 40c. This works properly on normal start-up, but not from S3 sleep. Has anyone heard of a fix for this? I have flashed to the 1.60 BIOS as MSI seemed to be working on ACPI fixes in the last two releases, but the issue is still present. At one point I suspected Speedfan and did a restore back to before Speedfan was installed, but that was not the problem. I have re-installed Vista in the past week as I was tracking down a problem where I couldn't get into S3 sleep at all. That turned out to be AMD Overdrive 2.1.4 changing something in Vista that stopped it from sleeping in S1 or S3. The machine enters and exits sleep great every time now with Overdrive eliminated except for the fan issue.

The fans stay slowed down until system restart. Your right that there's really no harm done and the system never gets that hot with them slower. I just hate it when things don't function right and the curiosity factor always gets me. I have tried running stock speeds and no difference. The reason I was thinking it might be a BIOS issue is that the one fan that isn't controlled by the BIOS returns to normal speed after sleep. It sounds like I need to start removing programs, again.

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