MacBook Pro :: Won't Stay Asleep - Hard Drive Begin Spinning Again After Some Time
Dec 10, 2014
I am desperate and really need an answer to this question. I have tried everything and had no luck.
I have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012) running Yosemite. Whenever I close the screen, it will fall asleep like it normally does. However, the external light will only pulse once (instead of continuously), and then I can hear the hard drive begin spinning again. The external light then stays at a constant, but the screen does not light back up.
It's like the computer falls asleep, but then only the hard drive wakes up, and stays woken up. This fact causes my Macbook to eventually use up whatever battery power it has and get warm in my backpack. The only thing I can do to preserve battery power is to shut down the whole computer and boot it up every time I need it.
Also, on a side note. My computer seems to run much slower than it did on it's native Mavericks.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
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