Apple Portables: Wait for pulsing sleep indicator light before moving system
Posted by Janice Canero-Conklin
Apple Portables: Wait for pulsing sleep indicator light before moving system
When putting your Apple portable computer into sleep mode, be sure to wait a few seconds until the sleep indicator light starts pulsing before moving your Apple portable computer. The pulsing light indicates that the computer is fully asleep and the hard disk has stopped spinning.
Important: Moving your computer while the disk is spinning can damage the hard disk, causing loss of data or the inability to startup from the hard disk.
From Apple knowledgebase article # 306830
Posted: November 5, 2007 3:55 pm | 1 comment
Tags: Apple Hardware, Laptop sleep, Mac Leopard OS, Mac Troubleshooting
Comments
But what if the sleep indicator never comes on? As in, you close the lid, and the light just goes off?
Okay, so this comment isn't fair, since my machine is suspect anyway, because of all the junk I've installed to play with.
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