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I am new and not a techie at all; I have a tutor/installer who asked me to ask this question: will sleep problems end with Tiger? Or is there any other way?!?

I have a Powerbook G4 1GHz, 1MB L3 cache, 512 MB SDRAM, OS X 10.3.9, DP 4.6, M-Audio Firewire 410 (not currently hooked up; I did shut down my computer before removing it for a move).

I and my family have a 2 year habit of closing the powerbook whenever we leave it, which automatically puts it to sleep. I have disabled all other sleep possibilities. I have a big note taped on it saying DO NOT CLOSE WITHOUT SHUTTING DOWN FIRST! and a plastic dragon I leave in the way of closing it. But it is such a HABIT (due to warm climate, open windows, dust blowing...) When I am real tired, just checking email, then I must have closed it. Whenever this happens, afterwards DP will not load (currently it says "DP is unable to run because the MIDI system has crashed. Please quit any programs that are using MIDI and try again" There are no other programs open.) Last time this happened my tech guy had to spend a long time uninstalling, reinstalling both DP and my Firewire, and resetting all my settings. This will cost me for his time all over again!

I never had this problem with my earlier version of DP (but I wasn't really using it much yet, and didn't have the Firewire yet.)

Will Tiger allow sleep without crashes/reinstalls? Is there any other way to sleep without problems? Does Tiger still have other problems?

Any help would be much appreciated!!

I'm not sure but why post this three times in one forum and again here?
I know I've had zero problems with sleep..
Mind you 90% of the time I don't leave DP open when Im going to put the computer to sleep

What????


Are you running TIGER?



I've got PANTHER and TIGER installed and I don't have the problems you mention.


Have you done a repair permissions?

Have you trashed the energy saving preferences?

No, I do not have Tiger, I am running Panther. I am wondering if Tiger would solve this problem, if so I will get it. Yes, I have disabled sleep/energy saver, but just closing the powerbook puts it to sleep automatically and immediatly if it has not been shut down first; I don't know of any way to disable this "feature". I try to remember to always shut down first, but two years of this "close to sleep everytime I leave the computer" habit is not being broken easily. Even with no programs running, I put to sleep by accident, now MIDI set up is empty, and DP won't run due to a "MIDI system crash" it says. My tutor says this will always happen if I allow sleep! I'm very frustrated.....