G5 iMac likes to sleep

We have a problem with a G5 iMac, the mac keeps turning itself off
Hugh Browton wrote on :

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

Robin Johnson replied on :

On 2008-04-08, Hugh Browton <useneth@redacted.invalid**.not.uk> 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

Hugh Browton replied on :

On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 11:58:31 +0100, Robin Johnson wrote (in article slrnfvmjun.n3v.karjalainen@redacted.invalid):

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.