G5 iMac likes to sleep

Dear All ≠

This one just in.....

"We have a problem with a G5 iMac, the mac keeps turning itself off (as if there was a power cut), we have checked connections and changed the power cable but it still keeps doing it every now and then."

On-board power supply transformers failing?

Or tsetse fly infestation locally?

Your thoughts?

TIA

On 2008-04-08, Hugh Browton wrote:

Dear All ≠

This one just in.....

"We have a problem with a G5 iMac, the mac keeps turning itself off (as if there was a power cut), we have checked connections and changed the power cable but it still keeps doing it every now and then."

try resetting the SMU:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301733

worked for me

rob

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:58:31 +0100, Robin Johnson wrote (in a previous article):

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301733

That is definitley worth a try - I've sent that off to the client - I'll let you know.