Won't sleep after HD installation

I just installed a Seagate 300 GB drive on the ATA 66 bus. Now the energy saver settings don't seem to work. If I manually sleep the computer from the Apple menu, it wakes up by itself. Any thoughts on how to resolve this? Thanks!
FYI, I have two other 120Gb drives, both in the rear bays.

Peter:
Does the system wake as soon as you put it to sleep, or is it seemingly rendom, happening after differing periods of sleep time?
When you installed the new drive, did you transfer your system to it, or is it a data drive?
Gary

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Regards Robin Hansson

When rebooting the computer, the display sleeps after set interval and can manually be put to sleep using shift+ctrl+eject.
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The display won't sleep after set interval in power settings and when I press shift+ctrl+eject the keyboard backlit turns off but the screen stays on.
The only way to make it sleep is to close the lid.
I have tried resetting SMC and NVRAM but to no avail.
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Does anyone else have this problem?
I have had this problem both in 10.6 and 10.8
Regards Robin Hansson

Macbook Pro won't sleep after updating to 10.4.11

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I just updated to 10.4.11 reluctantly from 10.4.9 as whenever I do update I always have issues...I basically just went to software update last week and updated to everything I could. I've just been reading the forums and noted that updating is not always that easy...
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I've reseted the PRAM, (option, alt, p and r), closed all applications, etc, but no luck...
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The important thing for the future imho, is to always Repair Permissions before & after any update... seems to ward off most of these problems. Of course that is only good if the disk is Verified once in awhile.
Using Disk Utility in Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later to verify or repair disks...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302672
About Disk Utility's Repair Disk Permissions feature...
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751
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This is for a Mac that won't sleep.
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USB devices and hubs often cause Macs to not sleep or wake quickly from sleep (notably HP printers and scanners, HP all in ones, and Cannon scanners). Disconnect all USB except for keyboard and mouse and try. If it sleeps, add one back at a time testing after each one to find the culprit.
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If the latter file isn't present in the folder, go to user name(probably your name)/Library/Preferences, delete the com.apple.systemuiserver.plist file, and reboot your Mac.
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"I have had this problem with my IMac G5. It is surprisingly irritating. LaCie's Silverkeeper backup software was the cause. By default it gave itself permission to wake up the computer to check if a backup was needed. Do you have this or a similar program installed which has scheduled activities including wake-up permissions as an option?"
Dave Hamilton provided this link, xlr8yourmac.com, to a member, which addresses failure of deep sleep with some users that updated and added new FireWire and USB cards.
tomhorvat adds this; After few days of messing around I found out that I had desktop background (wallpaper) set to change every 1 minute.
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Hi,
Thanks for posting in the forum.
Regarding your current issue, maybe we could refer to the following similar thread. It may be useful to us.
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How to Find Out What's Keeping Your Computer from Going to Sleep
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I've added a Kensington PilotMouse Laser Wireless to my system and now it won't sleep, without first switching off the mouse. Kensington has no info on this, is there a workaround?
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The "sleep" that you describe is not sleep. Your mac has crashed but since it thinks it is sleeping there is nothing in the crash logs.
Sleep on modern computers is not just a hardware shutdown. Because X and XP are server based kernels they are designed to run 24/7 and do what they can to keep it that way. Deep sleep requires an orderly shut down of processes and loading their status into memory so that when it wakes, all is as it was.
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com.apple.PowerManagement.plist
com.apple.AutoWake.plist
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Mac Mini won't sleep after upgrading to Mountain Lion

Upgraded to Mountain Lion (including the server upgrade) and now it won't sleep.
More info...
macmini:~ doug$ pmset -g
Active Profiles:
UPS Power                    -1
AC Power                    -1*
Currently in use:
hibernatemode        0
womp                 1
networkoversleep     0
sleep                30 (sleep prevented by 1488)
powerbutton          0
ttyskeepawake        1
hibernatefile        /var/vm/sleepimage
autorestart          0
disksleep            10
displaysleep         15
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    0 1488     1   0 9:20AM ??         0:00.06 /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.apple.serverd
What is PrivilegedHelperTools?
Also...
macmini:~ doug$ pmset -g assertions
11/14/12 9:35:32 AM PST
Assertion status system-wide:
   PreventUserIdleDisplaySleep    0
   PreventSystemSleep             1
   PreventUserIdleSystemSleep     1
   ExternalMedia                  1
   DisableLowPowerBatteryWarnings 0
   UserIsActive                   0
   ApplePushServiceTask           0
   BackgroundTask                 0
Listed by owning process:
pid 1488(com.apple.serve): [0x0000000100000334] 00:15:27 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep named: "com.apple.server.filesharing"
pid 345(httpd): [0x00000008000001a7] 01:15:14 DenySystemSleep named: "com.apple.apache.denysystemsleep"
pid 24(powerd): [0x000000090000012c] 01:15:35 ExternalMedia named: "com.apple.powermanagement.externalmediamounted"
Kernel Assertions: 0x0012
* Kernel Assertion ID = 500
   Created At = 12/31/69 4:03:47 PM PST
   Modified At = 11/14/12 8:30:22 AM PST
   Owner ID = 0xffffff801ec8b000
   Level = 255
   Assertions Set = None (4)
* Kernel Assertion ID = 501
   Created At = 12/31/69 4:03:48 PM PST
   Modified At = 11/14/12 8:29:48 AM PST
   Owner ID = 0xffffff801ec93000
   Level = 255
   Assertions Set = None (4)
* Kernel Assertion ID = 502
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   Modified At = 11/14/12 8:35:35 AM PST
   Owner ID = 0xffffff801ed05e00
   Level = 0
   Assertions Set = None (32)
* Kernel Assertion ID = 503
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   Modified At = 12/31/69 4:00:00 PM PST
   Owner ID = 0xffffff801f9a4800
   Level = 255
   Assertions Set = None (8)
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Assertion status system-wide:
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   CPUBoundAssertion              0
   PreventSystemSleep             1
   PreventUserIdleSystemSleep     1
   ExternalMedia                  1
   DisableLowPowerBatteryWarnings 0
   UserIsActive                   1
   ApplePushServiceTask           0
   BackgroundTask                 0
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pid 66(com.apple.serve): [0x000000010000012c] 02:24:31 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep named: "com.apple.ppp.l2tp"
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pid 220(AppleFileServer): [0x0000000800000416] 00:00:16 DenySystemSleep named: "com.apple.AppleFileServer"
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pid 1681(screensharingd): [0x0000000500000413] 00:00:23 NoDisplaySleepAssertion named: "screen sharing wake display"
pid 1681(screensharingd): [0x000000050000040f] 00:00:23 NoDisplaySleepAssertion named: "Nameless (via IOPMAssertionCreate)"
pid 1681(screensharingd): [0x0000000a00000412] 00:00:23 UserIsActive named: "screen sharing wake display"
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pid 172(httpd): [0x0000000800000161] 02:24:32 DenySystemSleep named: "com.apple.apache.denysystemsleep"

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