So I turned my Mac off last night, just to see what it would do. Naturally, sometime during the night it turned itself back on. I know it took longer than an two hours for it to decide bring itself back from the land of computer shut downs because I was still awake at 2am and I had shut it down around midnight.
I'm not sure if I should be bothered by this. Everything else works just fine. No error messages, nada. Runs like a champ. It even puts itself to sleep (and for some reason doesn't wake up from that without a prompt--like it is supposed to). I've looked on the web for other people with this problem. Most of them are complaining about their Mac's coming out of sleep for some reason or another. Mine isn't doing that. It's turning itself back on completely.
I really don't want to screw around with sending it to be fixed if this isn't a big deal. I don't turn it off that often. Only once a week or so, and only for a few hours. It seems to be doing me a favor, by booting itself back up. LOL
*sigh* My luck with anything electronic is just...I don't know...
Posted by Zoso at July 23, 2007 05:40 PMI honestly don't know what this could be. Have you browsed through (or posted a message) on the Apple support forums?
http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa
> and for some reason doesn't wake up from that
> without a prompt--like it is supposed to
This is a setting. You can set it up to come back with a password prompt - or not.
Also, even if you have it set to require a password, it won't do it if you immediately wake it up after it goes to sleep (if you wake it up quickly, the Mac assumes that you put it to sleep accidentally through a hot corner and would be annoyed at a prompt). You have to wait a few seconds first.
- Jeff
Posted by: Jeff at July 23, 2007 06:29 PMSleep mode functions like it should. My sentance was a little confusing there. It goes to sleep and wakes up if I fiddle with the mouse or whatever. The sleep light flickers, which I suppose is normal. I've never really noticed it before.
I've searched all over for an answer. I posted a question tonight over on the Apple Discussion boards. I shall wait and see what they have to say. The only thing I've ran into that might make sense is this:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303446
I haven't done it yet. I'm afraid it will make a mountain out of a mole hill. I really don't care if my Mac doesn't stay turned off. I'm just worried there is a bigger problem that will only get worse if I don't fix it now.
Posted by: Zoso at July 23, 2007 09:54 PM