Do you let your mac sleep?

[keogh]

Howdy,

Just curious to know how many of you let you mac sleep after a certain amount of time? If so:

1. What mac you got?
2. How long do you tell os x to wait til it puts the machine to sleep?

I always turned this off in Tiger, cos upon waking I would lose all my Windows shares, and I need those as they are my servers. I got around this with Sleepwatcher, but that was odd.

Well it would appear that Leopard has fixed this, and my shares stay present upon waking.. well they seem to at the moment!

The main reason I ask, is cos a lot of people told me that letting your windows pc sleep was a bit dodgy, and odd things would happen (thats if you where able to take it out of its sleep). So I'm hoping the same isnt true with Apple machines (although I doubt)!

So what do you do?

ta

 

[keogh]

The main reason I ask, is cos a lot of people told me that letting your windows pc sleep was a bit dodgy, and odd things would happen (thats if you where able to take it out of its sleep). So I'm hoping the same isnt true with Apple machines (although I doubt)!

I just proved this information to be correct! Thought I'd put my Vista PC to sleep to see what happens, the machine went to sleep, all fans stopped and I thought so far so good.

I pressed every button on my keyboard and nout, so I pressed the power button, and the machine came out of sleep straight to the login screen, which was great.

Started entering my password and got a popup say "LoginUI Failure" with someother guff, then got the wonderful BSOD, and was forced to reboot

Good ol windows!

 

[keogh]

I think sleep on Vista depends a lot on your motherboard. I have Home Premium on 2 PCs. On one, when it goes to sleep all fans turn off, power LED goes out etc, and the only way to wake it is with the power button. This is a Foxconn motherboard. My main PC, with Asus board, goes to sleep but leaves the power LED blinking. I can wake the Asus PC by moving/clicking the mouse, or hitting any key on the keyboard. No watter what settings I change on the Foxconn, it will only wake with the power button.

My pc is a bit odd, if I make it sleep from the login screen, the fans go out and everything, yet if I tell it to sleep from within windows (like you would 99% of the time) then it seems the only thing that happens in the monitor goes to sleep, the pc stays as if it was on. Press a key and im on the login screen?!?!