[mechdrew]

Originally Posted by solar

Could it be because i (and others) have 2gb ram?

Nope. I have 2 GB, not the problem, although the manufacturer may play an part. Mine was just some cheap stuff from NewEgg, works pretty good though.

[saltatory]

i have 2gb ram (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820208341) too and it hasn't affected sleep at all.

[mfruit]

Weird. I wonder what the difference is as a lot of folks seem to be having this issue (not being able to restart after a sleep cycle).

osx-will-not-restart-on-mini-9-fixed--t5152s10.html

I don't think it's the RAM since it happens to me with both the 512MB stick that the unit came with and also with the new 2GB stick that I bought from Newegg. Perhaps it's related to USB Legacy support? I have it turned off but I've also read some messages from folks that didn't need to turn it off for proper sleep.

My setup:

Mini 9 (purchased 3/24) with A04 (USB Legacy Support turned off in BIOS). OSX 10.5.6 direct install. DellEFI 1.1.

[saltatory]

Originally Posted by mfruit

Perhaps it's related to USB Legacy support? I have it turned off but I've also read some messages from folks that didn't need to turn it off for proper sleep.

weird, i just tried an experiment. ok, my mini was sleeping and waking fine. i had USB legacy enabled. When I DISABLED it, I had the black screen after trying to restart it following a very short sleep period. I hard-shut-down (using the power button), changed back to ENABLED in bios and booted up. After closing the lid and letting it sleep for a few minutes, the restart was just fine.

So mine needs to have it enabled for it to sleep and restart properly. Is this opposite of everyone else?

[mechdrew]

Originally Posted by saltatory

So mine needs to have it enabled for it to sleep and restart properly. Is this opposite of everyone else?

That's how mine is set up, I have never turned off USB Legacy Support, except that one time back in February but I hated not being able to boot from my flashdrives.

[mfruit]

Weird. I just updated to A05 and then turned USB Legacy Support back on and now sleep works and so far, I can restart after sleep. I'll have to try it a few more times to verify but it wasn't working before and now it is.

Perhaps A05 helped?

[chazzek]

A05 didn't fix it for me.

[mechdrew]

If I remember correctly, the reason people were turning Legacy mode off was so that their devices would work to wake the Mini up from sleep. For some reason I think I am missing something, anyone care to elaborate? Might help us sort this out.

[chazzek]

For a lot of us, including me, the system locks hard upon waking from sleep if legacy mode is on.

[mfruit]

Well, I tested some more and for some odd reason, sleep & sleep/restart works fine for me now. It wasn't working before but now I can put the machine into several sleep cycles (I tried 4) and then restart without any problems. Only changes since I had problems is the updating to A05 and installation of Little Snitch.

Very strange but I won't complain since it seems to be working now!