#615354 - 04/14/1401:41 AMRe: iMac shutting down while away from computer
[Re: John Rougeux]
yoyo52 Nothing comes of nothing.
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If you have the computer set to sleep after some time, that's probably what's causing the shut down. My machine was doing the same thing, and then restarting on its own because I'd set the preferences to do that in case of power failure. And then when I'd go to use the computer I'd get a message that there'd been a problem and did I want to report it to Apple. Since I set the preferences never to allow the computer to go to sleep, the problem has disappeared. The HD goes to sleep, as does the monitor, of course.
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#615367 - 04/14/1404:11 PMRe: iMac shutting down while away from computer
[Re: yoyo52]
John Rougeux Member # -1
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Originally Posted By: yoyo52
If you have the computer set to sleep after some time, that's probably what's causing the shut down. My machine was doing the same thing, and then restarting on its own because I'd set the preferences to do that in case of power failure. And then when I'd go to use the computer I'd get a message that there'd been a problem and did I want to report it to Apple. Since I set the preferences never to allow the computer to go to sleep, the problem has disappeared. The HD goes to sleep, as does the monitor, of course.
You wouldn't by chance have an iMac with the full 32GB of RAM installed, would you? LOTS of people having kernel panicks and random shutdown issues with the fully loaded version of the 2013 iMac.
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