Broke working sleep. DVD now flashes trying to sleep. HD seemingly not working upon wake.

[ColdWrench]

Ah I had it working and then I broke it!!

 

Sleep worked just fine on my 10.5.4 install (Boot-132 DFE/Chameleon Retail upgraded from 10.5.1). (System config below)

 

Somewhere between there and a 10.5.5 update plus installation of VMWare Fusion (and it's MacFues), trying bluetooth & iSync and CS3, sleep no longer works.

 

Main symptom: When I go to sleep, CRT & disks shut down promptly. DVD drive access LED flashes for a while (no DVD there) then goes dark. Every 10 secs or so, the LED flashes again once or twice. After two minutes or so, the machine powers off.

 

When it was working, I don't remember the DVD LED blinking periodically before powering off. Power-off occurred much sooner than it does now.

 

Upon restart, I have video, mouse and can manipulate windows. If I try anything that accesses the hard drive, that window locks up with a beachball. Clicking on dock programs freeze the dock.

 

The HD LED on my box then flashes very briefly every 2 secs or so. The box never recovers.

 

This sounds potentially related to how drives are managed during transition to/from sleep.

 

Avenues I've tried:

- Uninstall MacFuse, Fusion & CS3. No help.

- Bluetooth dongle removed, no help.

- iSync not showing on menu.

 

PLEASE... any help would be appreciated & followed up with. Alternative is to rebuild this thing again... and I've got so much done now.

 

I have the usual items in my Extra/Extensions folder:

SMBIOSEnabler.kext

IntelCPUPMDisabler.kext

dsmos.kext

AppleVIAATA.kext

AppleSMBIOS.kext

ApplePS2Controller.kext

AppleIntelIntegratedFramebuffer.kext

AppleGenericPCATA.kext

AppleAzaliaAudio.kext

AppleAPIC.kext

AppleAHCIPort.kext

AppleACPIPlatform.kext

AppleAC97Audio.kext

ACPIPS2Nub.kext

 

Have added OpenHaltRestart.kext to /System/Library/Extensions.

 

 

MB: Gigabyte EP35-DS3L

CPU: E7200, 2.53 Mhz

RAM: 2GB PC2-6400

HD: Seagate 500 GB 7200.11 SATA II

DVD: LG DVD +/- RW SATA

Video: NVidia 8600 256 MB, CI/QE enabled

[ColdWrench]

Yup I have this too (I'm running the same guide revision you are). I believe this is because of the IDE driver. I've updated the IDE driver with a newer one and it seems to be working. Download this:

 

http://darwin-ata.googlecode.com/files/JMicronATA.kext.zip

 

Remove the legacyjmicron.kext (Extensions folder), delete extensions.mkext (Library folder), and try this one using Kext Helper (reboot after installation). See if it works for you.

 

 

This problem is discussed and followed up in this thread. Alas, there is no solution as yet, but weaksauce12 does report a fix.