iMac g5 Sleep and firewire problem

Hi,

Recently my iMac G5 running os x v. 10.4.7 won't go to sleep (manually or automatically) and the firewire connections won't work for external drives; yet, the USB connections seem to be intact, even for external drives. Also, when I try to restore the energy saver preferences to factory defaults the color wheel appears and then preferences stops responding.

Any suggestions?

Thx,
Ross

On 2006-08-26 19:46:53 +0100, rcnews@gmail.com said:

Hi,

Recently my iMac G5 running os x v. 10.4.7 won't go to sleep (manually or automatically) and the firewire connections won't work for external drives; yet, the USB connections seem to be intact, even for external drives. Also, when I try to restore the energy saver preferences to factory defaults the color wheel appears and then preferences stops responding.

Any suggestions?

Thx,
Ross

reset smu, it might help

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

sounds to me like your system could use a hard re-install.