Someone may have inadvertently set the automatic shut down option. Go to System Preferences > Energy Saver > Schedule and see whether the start/wake options are set.
(NB: This is the path on Snow Leopard 10.6.8; I assume there was no change between versions. I don't have a running Leopard system to check.) On Thursday, August 23, 2012 5:39:56 PM UTC-6, bkprolix wrote: > > My 24" 2.8ghz w/4gigs ram iMac running 10.5.8, which I purchased from > Smalldog in November 2011, is doing something really annoying! The window > that comes up when I turn the machine off is continually popping up, asking > am I sure I want to shut my computer down now... When I am in the middle of > doing something. When I hit cancel, it pops up again at rapid & decreasing > intervals till it stays on thru 4 or 5 clicks of the cancel button, then it > will stay off several minutes till it starts the same irritating cycle over > again. This sometimes happens very frequently, but sometimes will not > happen for a couple of days. It also makes noise, quite bothersome when > listening to music or playing a movie. I posted this on the LEM imac list > back in march when it first started happening, & the only response got was > that might have a stuck on-off switch... personally think it may be > software related since it did not manifest itself untill i found out that > my wife had been snooping on my computer to see if there was any porn on > it... There wasn't. My wife is NOT very computer literate, even though she > has been using one since we got a PM 6500 years ago. Later found out she > had fooled around with iChat (which I don't use), & iTunes ( which like > everyone else I DO use). Any suggestions, or am I going to have to back up, > wipe & reformat then re-install??? I do not have install disks. > > Ben Kernan: 24"I-Mac 4/2.8/700, graphite g-4 1gig/400/52, iPad 2/64/wifi, > iPhone 4gs/64 - Dedicated Mac user since 1990 > -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To leave this group, send email to imaclist+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
