Here’s another Macbook support question.
Sometimes when I open up my Macbook, it doesn’t come out of “sleep” mode. I try closing the lid and opening it again a few times but that doesn’t seem to help. I always end up shutting it completely down with my finger on the power button until it re-boots but I’d rather not do that for a number of reasons.
Have any of your Mac fanboyz/grlz experienced this before? What’s the story?
Press the space bar the hard drive is asleep etc
Yeah dumbass.
But no, I’ve had that before, it’s disturbing.
Gary, tried that – doesn’t work.
Maybe it’s just very tired from a hard day of podcasting?
Sometimes apps hang and cause finder to hang which would probably hang the “wake up” sequence. Try fooling with your sleep settings a bit and let the display sleep before the HD if you’re let it sleep a lot. Personally if I’m not going to use my laptop for 30 mins or so, I just shut it down.
Cam, I sometimes get the same thing – used to happen a LOT more under Tiger than it does under Leopard. I’ve never found a decent answer, but I put it down to me filling my drive with crap that interferes with the sleep/wake state.
Anyway, I usually get success by doing the open/close thing *without* the power pack plugged in. God knows why.
Heya mate,
I had this problem with my MacBook in the past and it also grew into occasional startup issues – the machine would simply not boot. For me, it was that my RAM was poorly seated. Took them out, put them back in (you have to be *very* firm with them!) and haven’t seen those problems since.
Hopefully that helps!
Cheers,
Matt
I often find that if the spacebar won’t wake it then pressing power for a quick count of “one” (press and release) is not long enough to power it down but is enough to really make the point that “It’s time to wake up now!!”.
If the machine has gone into deep sleep (aka safe sleep) http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86407 it can take 5 seconds or so for the thing to wake up and show you the progress bar.
If it’s an ongoing issue this is the Apple guide to fixing problems http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303234.
This is the more drastic answer if the ‘normal’ answers don’t work http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303319.
Hope it resolves itself. This sounds more annoying than what I have experienced in this area (but I’ve not yet got a spanking MacBook Pro, still on a PowerPC PowerBook so that might be part of the difference, maybe?).
I took my MacBook to the Genius bar at my local Apple store (after making an appointment on the Apple website) and the “Genius” was very helpful. He checked various things and decided the likely suspect was an HP printer driver component running in PowerPC compatibility mode. I think it was transferred over by the migration assistant when I brought my files from my old PowerBook G4 to my new MacBook. Anyway, he suggested getting the latest HP printer drivers and running its uninstaller. After doing that, there’s no more PowerPC emulation processes showing up in Activity Monitor, and my MacBook has not had the “won’t wake up from sleep mode” problem! It’s only been two weeks since the “fix” but I’m optimistic that the Genius found the root problem for me.
It seems like this problem occur on some order of putting the system into sleep and disconnecting or re-connecting the power cord before it is really fully sleep. In most cases the sleep process takes about 30 sec to allow Hibernate. The default Hibernate is disabled when power cord is connected and it is enabled when running on battery. Changing the mode in the process of sleep appears to cause this problem.
One solution is to sleep, then wait about 30 sec until we hear the system completely goes to sleep, then disconnect and take the laptop. The wakeup will be fast.
The second solution would be to disable the slow sleep all together if you don’t need the safe sleep. I have never used the safe sleep, so I disabled it for both power and battery mode.
I have the same problem, and I have one of the aluminum bodied macbooks. Usually it will wake up, but at the worst times it will not.