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Posts Tagged ‘problems’

Windows 7 Wake From Sleep

In Computing on 2 September 2009 tagged 7, hibernate, howto, pc, problems, sleep, tips, wake, windows with 2 comments

Since installing Windows 7 I haven’t been able to put my PC to sleep either in hybrid mode or hibernate. So I did a little digging and found some useful tips on INTERNET.
If you put your computer to sleep in one of these modes and find it immediately wakes back up again, fans whirring, login-screen [...]

10.5.7 ongoing weirdness

In Computing on 8 June 2009 tagged Apple, freeze, issues, leopard, osx, problems, sleep, wake with 2 comments

I managed to fix the wake-from-sleep problem that I originally suffered from on my MacPro. A reboot (or two) seemed to fix it and it sleeps without waking up now. I am still seeing some pretty weird issues with other areas though, particularly the Finder. Mapping drives through Finder seems prone to issues, often taking [...]

10.5.7 Breaks Sleep, Hopes and Dreams

In Computing on 17 May 2009 tagged Apple, osx, problems, sleep with 3 comments

Also known as the 10.5.7 sleep problem.
There are a bunch of reports of Mac OS X 10.5.7 update breaking sleep on a variety of machines ranging from PowerMac G5s to MacBooks. I can personally vouch for having issues with my MacBook Pro and MacPro*.
The recommended fixes range from resetting the SMC on MacBook Pros to [...]

Project Gotham 4 Audio Problems

In Entertainment on 13 February 2009 tagged audio, errors, Games, glitches, harddrive, noise, problems, Xbox360 with 3 comments

This year I upgraded my Xbox360’s hard-drive. I decided to get one of the big ones so I could transfer games to it and cut down on load times and hopefully, spare the DVD drive from an early death due to all the thrashing. I loaded up a bunch of games and everything was good.
Then [...]