iMac - OS X - iMac G3's Hard drive spinning up every 4 mins.

Tempest · Tempest #1 (**permalink**)

04-12-2007, 07:59 PM

Dunno what's going on, but when I leave my iMac G3 alone (when it should shutdown into a powersaving mode) and it did when it had OS9.2 on it.

Now for some reason, every 4 mins the drive spins up, for about 2 mins then spins down again.
Meaning the mac will never go into standby.

Any idea why this might be happening?

Thanks

Tempest · Tempest #2 (**permalink**)

04-12-2007, 08:12 PM

Oh, seem to have got it working again, but could have been a number of things.

Ejected a few progs/icons from the desktop and also unticked the box about drives spinning down when poss.

More testing methinks. At least it's working again. Phew!

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Tempest #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Apr 12, 2007 Posts: 22	04-12-2007, 07:59 PM Dunno what's going on, but when I leave my iMac G3 alone (when it should shutdown into a powersaving mode) and it did when it had OS9.2 on it. Now for some reason, every 4 mins the drive spins up, for about 2 mins then spins down again. Meaning the mac will never go into standby. Any idea why this might be happening? Thanks
	QUOTE Thanks

Tempest #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Apr 12, 2007 Posts: 22	04-12-2007, 08:12 PM Oh, seem to have got it working again, but could have been a number of things. Ejected a few progs/icons from the desktop and also unticked the box about drives spinning down when poss. More testing methinks. At least it's working again. Phew!
	QUOTE Thanks

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