insomniac mac

[Chad Leigh]

On May 8, 2007, at 1:16 PM, Michael Grant wrote:

> I have an eMac running 10.4.9 that has refused to go to sleep for the
> past week or so. AFAIK (it's mainly my wife who uses it), nothing new
> has been installed or changed recently. If I choose Sleep from the
> apple menu, it seems to spin down, the screen goes dark and the fan
> goes off, but only for a split second before everything comes right up
> again. I've logged in to different accounts to confirm that the
> problem is not tied to any one account, but I really don't know where
> else to start troubleshooting. Any ideas?


try plugging in a different  mouse and keyboard.  One of them may be  
ultra sensitive or broken and sending spurious events

Just a guess but the symptoms sound like when I had an optical mouse  
that would move ever so slightly when a table was bumped and wake up  
a machine

Chad