My iBook & The Sleep Of Death

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My iBook & The Sleep Of Death

Just installed a new hard drive in my beloved iBook "Tang" (thanks idweeb!), ran the software restore disk with OS 9... and have a problem. Whene'er I try to put my 'book to sleep, she slips instead into that coma-like state known as "the sleep of death". Okay, this is new to me.
Anyone else here experience this?

Gravely Concerned,
Rob

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ah the sleep of death. I have

ah the sleep of death. I have only heard rumours that it existed, but until now, never actually had it happen to anyone I know. the wisdom of Charles W. Moore give some insight into it. looks like it only affects 9.2.1 and 9.2.2, so you should be OK with 9.1.

my wallstreet gets a grey screen, but a few seconds later, all my work comes back up, and I have an ethernet cable, a Ti graph link cable hooked to the serial port, and the power cable.

now I have one more thing to look out for on my old guy. the only thing that is serious is that it gets to 258F (according to Guage PRO), and the fan has yet to come on by it's self, but I can get it to come on via a PRAM reset, and while I have fn-ctrl-shift-power pressed, it's going full blast. the damn thing is so insatibly hot I can barely touch the keys from the keyboard, as that is where the heat is radiating from. the heat is causing the 20gb hard drive to fail. it will also refuse to charge the battery while on; but it will charge the battery if the computer is OFF or in sleep.

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OS 9

Mine's running OS 9 straight. Hmmm. An extension maybe? It didn't do this when it had 9.2.2.

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Alas, A Solution

I decided to do a little experimenting last night to see what would happen if I powered up the fruit color'd beauty with extensions off. Did it, and she can sleep. Hmmm. Ergo, an extension must be the cause. However, which one?
After two hours of various permutations to the extension problem, as well as multiple restarts, it was decided that the best thing to do was install another OS, in this case 9.2. Did that this morn'.
Result? She sleeps like a log, yet is easily stirred awake by gently stroking her keys...
Okay, that sounded wrong, but you get the gist. While I never did determine which extension was playing havoc with the iBook's sleep, it's just good to have her running... and sleeping... and running again.

Peace,
Rob

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