Re: another iBook problem

[Ben Dyer]

I've had a problem with my iBook that causes the display to go blank as 
it comes back from display sleep or the screensaver (sometimes with 
games as well). It appears to be shut down, but it still responds to 
keyboard commands, etc. So, while you were waiting for it to shut down, 
the display could have gone to sleep, causing you to think that it had 
in fact shut down. As it wasn't really shut down, just in the buggy 
display-sleep mode, closing the lid would put it into system sleep, 
which causes the light to pulsate. The fact that it didn't wake up 
again could mean that it was close enough to shutting down that the GUI 
was missing, or any number of other things.

At any rate, bizarre sleep behaviour is something I've just learned to 
put up with -- during normal system operation, if the screen blanks, 
you can just close the lid, wait for system sleep, and wake it up 
again. The issue seems to be fairly common, I'm not sure if there's a 
solution to it yet.

Cheers,
Ben
On 15 Feb 2005, at 08:31, Jeff Wiseman wrote:
The other day I had some interesting things happen.  I shut down my 
iBook, and sat as it took longer than normal to power down.  I let it 
sit, came back to it a few minutes later to a black screen, so it 
looked to be shut down as best as I could tell.  Closed the lid, and 
set it aside for the night, but after the lights were out I noticed a 
fading and brightening effect.  Thinking this couldn't possibly be 
the iBook, since I shut it down, not put it to sleep, I took a closer 
look, opened the lid, and nothing, although the sleep light had been 
on for some reason.  After closing the lid again the fading light 
didn't come back.  The next morning I woke up, tried to turn on the 
iBook, and it did not respond.  More curious, the bottom of the book 
was very warm, warmer that it usually gets when even sitting on my 
lap.  I removed the battery and the power chord, plugged the battery 
battery back in again, and it powered back on with no problems.  I 
have had no other problems since then.
Is this indicative of a greater problem?  Possibly a well known 
problem?  Am I going to have to send my iBook in to be repaired 
AGAIN? (I was the one who started that applecare thread that got shut 
down- the guy with the iBook that took 24 days to repair).
TIA,
Brian
Brian,
I have had something similar happen. It seems to be that the shutdown 
gets interrupted by the sleep so it is neither truly shut down nor 
asleep. It seems that the HD can keeping running if this happens and 
that may be the heat source.

JeffW.

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