mac thingy

[rocketman]

hi Pingu,
It's not a problem at all. It's a perfecty ordinary system "feature". Basically, the Mac goes to "sleep" when left alone for too long. It saves power (good), and also screen life (also good). You can access settings for it from the top Menu bar - its a drop-down menu from that little picture of a battery that may be showing how much battery life is left. Or go to the Apple menu (the apple logo) in the menu bar, and press the muse/trackpad down to show a menu there (which has "About this Mac" at the top). Choose System preferences, Choose Energy Saver, then choose "Show OPtions", then mess with the "Sleep" settings. It's all fairly straightforward, your Mac, once you get used to Apple's human-centred logic, rather than Microsoft's syste,-led pleasure principle. Hope it helps (if I ain't too late).

 

[pk]

Sounds to me like a battery issue, get her to download a battery conditioning script of some sort, the machine is probably trying to save her from herself.

Macs are clever like that.



There are some righteous OSX forums out there with nice adults prepared to give you good advice, and they're not swamped by script-kiddies trying to send you WaRez and other shit...

 

[Jelly]

If it's not a save power/sleep issue try zapping the PRAM - just for good measure like

 

[pk]

If it's not a save power/sleep issue try zapping the PRAM - just for good measure like

Not advisable unless you know what you're doing...

 

[Jelly]

Not advisable unless you know what you're doing...

Surely it either works or it doesn't?
Can't see how you might screw it up unless you hold down the wrong keys while restarting?

Hold down Command(the Apple key)+Option(the Alt key)+P+R while it is booting, when you hear the startup sound for the third time the operation is complete, and you can release the key combination. Then just let your Mac boot as normal.

It's solved a few problems for me over the last year: eject key not working; battery not charging correctly; date and time slipping; keyboard playing up (on several macs i hasten to add).

Obviously, on older Macs, the need for PRAM resetting often means the PRAM battery is nearing the end of it's life but i had a spanking new iBook fresh out of the box whose eject key wasn't working. Reset the PRAM once and, 8 months later problem hasn't reappeared.

Of course there may be problems associated with PRAM reset of which i'm unaware - i'd be interested to hear of them.

 

[Pingu]

users huh

gotta love em


ok

its "sleeping" about every 9 minutes..


anyone wnat to take a wild stab in the dark as to what setting the powersave feature is set to?

 

[Jelly]

users huh

gotta love em

ok

its "sleeping" about every 9 minutes..

anyone wnat to take a wild stab in the dark as to what setting the powersave feature is set to?

OK...

I'll put 50p on 9 minutes?

 

[Pingu]

OK...

I'll put 50p on 9 minutes?

we have a winner


i am actually quite gald now she did get a mac...

*polishes teflon shoulders*

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Some people will always find *something* to bother you about.