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Optiplex GX520 Sleep Mode Issue


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Hi

 

I have successfully installed Snow Leopard 10.6.8. on my Dell Optiplex GX 520 (2.8GHz/500GB-SATA/4GB-RAM/Intel GMA950).

 

Everything works fine (Ethernet, Hardware accelerated Graphics, Sound & USB, Sleep Mode)

 

Here is my problem:

I have enabled VNC Desktop Sharing and Wake On LAN in the BIOS. The Wake On LAN works perfectly from a Windows PC using wolcmd.exe and the sleeping Mac powers nicely on + however if I have made one single WOL command the MAChine will no longer enter sleep mode. It reacts on the sleep command in the Apple Menu and blanks the screen but it comes right back ON after a while.

 

If I do a reset without removing power using the Apple Menu I am still unable to bring the system into sleep mode.

 

If I shut down the system hereby completely powering OFF the Mac using the Apple Menu and then re-boot the system I am again able to bring the system into sleep mode - as long as I do not issue a WOL package from another PC.

 

I guess this is a hardware related hackintosh issue, or it could be related to the legacy kernel or the Ethernet kext.

 

Anyone else having experienced something like this or perhaps have solved a similar issue?

BIOS A11, Legacy Kernel for 10.6.8

 

/Extra/Extensions/EvOreboot.kext/

/Extra/Extensions/FakeSMC.kext/

/Extra/Extensions/IOAHCIBlockStorageInjector.kext/

/Extra/Extensions/IOATAFamily.kext/

/Extra/Extensions/IONetworkingFamily.kext/

/Extra/Extensions/LegacyAppleRTC.kext/

/Extra/Extensions/NullCPUPowerManagement.kext/

/Extra/Extensions/SleepEnabler.kext/

 

/System/Library/Extensions/AppleAC97Audio.kext/

/System/Library/Extensions/AppleBCM5751Ethernet.kext/

/System/Library/Extensions/AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext/

 

EDIT:

I have investigated a little more. I turns out that the BIOS enabled WakeOnLAN feature is not controlling the ability to WOL from sleep mode - it only controls the ability to WOL from a completely powered OFF mode - that was a nifty little thing to know :king:

 

One more thing:

It turns out that if I issue a WOL from an external PC and then a Shut Down command from the Apple Menu the MAChine starts to power down. I can hear a short slow down of the vents, I can see the power indicator turning yellow for a short period, but then after about one or two seconds the system powers on and reboots just like normal. Now this kind of shut down, where you can visually observe that power is gone for a short moment must cause some sort of reset on the network card, because after this cycle the GX520 is again able to enter sleep mode by issuing a Sleep Mode command from the Apple Menu.

 

One obvious thought popping up in my mind is, that maybe some sort of WOL hardware flag is not correctly cleared by the system (BIOS or IOS) after a WOL has been effectuated - and when the system then later tries to enter sleep mode (or shut down mode for that matter) - this pending flag causes the network card to power up the system again.

 

Well that was just a wild guess - any comments are welcome.

 

 

Regards

zEnterHacker

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