MacBook :: Harddisk Wakes Up By Itself
May 24, 2012
My Macbook seems to have a life of its own it wakes up by itself when the harddisk is sleeping.When I leave the computer open but the hard screensaver is on or the harddisk is at sleep it often wakes up by itself.Also when I go to sleep at night and I close down the screen and the lid there are sounds as if the computer wants to wake up and this often goes on for up to 15 times in a row.I then have to shut down the computer and disconnect all together.This is really enoying as I am afraid the harddisk will get harmed during the night.I have upgraded to snowleopard and after that this problem started.I did leave my computer to a apple service shortly after I changed my harddisk there after my old harddisk crashed in november last year.But they could not find any problem with my computer.I really would like to now what´s going on.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Jun 2, 2012
I have a dead MBP 15, can I take out that harddisk an insert it into another MBP perhaps 13" just to get all my data out and then replace the old harddisk again?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Oct 8, 2010
I bought a MBP13 with a 250 GB. I noticed that the HD is a Seagate 250 GB 5400 rpm.
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Should a 500GB harddisk be more noisy than a 250 Gb? I thought it would be the same. The only difference I saw between the two harddisk is that the old HD had a Apple logo on it.
Otherwise its the same brand and model, just with a higher capacity.
If I had upgraded at apple would I have been rid of the noise or is this just something that follows along with the higher capacity?
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I baught a refurbished mbp a year ago... The keyboard lights were not working, so I took it to a mac store. I live in kuwait so there arnt any official mac stores just authorised reslellers (who btw are rippin peopl off with profits over 100%) anyway so they told me that the hard disk was not working!
I told them that I just baught the mbp and it has to be working! They fixed it or something and returned it to me with no charges.A year later my mbp decided to use the malfunction card it stoped working. All I'd get when I turn it on is a white blank screen and a mouse cursor.I took it to a shop to fix it. He told me the hard disk isn't wokring and cannot be fixed. He replaced it.A month later instead of a blank screen I get a blinking folder. I take it back to the shop and he says the new hard disk malfunctioned again, so he replaced it.week later blank screen I take it to the shop same problem hard disk needs to be replaced.Keep in mind that by shop I mean multiple mac associated and non mac shops, I took many opinions b4 accepting that my harddisks and the info on them were indeed lost.Now I am thinkin my mbp is causing the hard disks to malfunction! Is that posible?
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The rest which eats up my hard disk apparently files automatically created by Apple software and not accessible via the finder. I hardly find this user friendly at all!Â
how to reduce these "other" files safely!
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This is has been occurring most every night since I've had this MBP for a few weeks. I put the MBP to sleep at night. Then some point in the morning, I can actually hear it wake, but then quickly, within 5 seconds, it right back to sleep.
I have no programs telling it to awake or perform scans, my Bluetooth mouse is off, etc. Has anyone experienced this or know how to resolve it?
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When I go to bed, I like to just put my macbook pro to sleep by closing the lid. But almost 100% of the time it wakes itself. It gets really hot when this happens so I've been turning it off most of the time instead, but I'd really like to get this resolved. I have an external monitor plugged into it so I know its awake as the screen shifts over to the external monitor. When no monitor is plugged into it, I do occasionally hear the hard drive spin up. I have tried unplugging everything except for the power cable to see if that might help, but the result is the same. I have a 1st generation 15" Macbook Pro running OS X 10.5.3.
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I have a classic mbp that seems to wake up from sleep at 6:30 AM everyday. Anyone have ideas what is causing the problem?
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Sep 3, 2009
My MacBook Pro has been waking up from sleep at some of the most random times. Usually it will wake up about 5 minutes after I put it to sleep, and if I'm lucky it will stay to sleep when I try again. Sometimes it will even wake up 30 or 45 minutes after I put it to sleep. Currently, I have it connected to an external display with the laptop screen closed at all times. It is running a fresh install of Snow Leopard with barely any apps installed yet (mainly just iWork and Microsoft Offiice). I was having the same problem when I was running Leopard, thats why I did a fresh install. So this eliminates a software issue.
This has been happening for a few months now, but it has just started to become a problem for me. When I was running Leopard I did not have an external display. It was waking up at random times without anything connected to it (no display, USB, or MagSafe connected). I would be sitting next to my Mac, and all of a sudden, I hear the Superdrive wake up sound. I searched and found a thread similar to this, but hopefully it will not have the same solution as the members of the following thread had: "I had this problem with my Macbook. The fix was a logic board replacement." [URL] I have also attached a screenshot of my system.log in Console. I opened up console as soon as my MBP woke by itself. Hopefully someone here will have some idea what all the stuff in console means or maybe be able to narrow down the problem.
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MacBook Air (13-inch Late 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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kernel: Wake reason: EHC2kernel: The USB device HubDevice (Port 1 of Hub at 0xfa000000) may have caused a wake by issuing a remote wakeup (2)kernel: The USB device Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad (Port 2 of Hub at 0xfa100000) may have caused a wake by issuing a remote wakeup (3)
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MacBook Air (13-INCH, MID 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Since I've upgraded from MacOSX 10.9 to Yosemite, my MacBook Pro wakes from sleep within 30 seconds. I've tried solutions suggested on Google, but they have had no effect (and usually are about MacBook's waking up after 2 hours).Â
I'm running OSX Yosemite (10.10.1) on s
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013)
2.4 Ghz Intel Core i5
8 GB 1600 Mhz DDR3
Intel Iris 1536 MB
256 Gb SSD with 125Gb freeÂ
To figure our what is going on I've started OSX in safe mode and logged in using the guest account. Also I've turned off WIFI and Bluetooth. The problem still occurs. The syslog shows relatively little from the moment that I select 'Sleep' and the computer wakes again (see below).
Dec 9 09:36:08 Jochems-MacBook-Pro-2.local sharingd[257] <Notice>: 09:36:08.830 : Stopping Handoff advertising
Dec 9 09:37:06 Jochems-MacBook-Pro-2.local sharingd[257] <Notice>: 09:37:06.218 : Stopping Handoff advertising
Dec 9 09:37:06 Jochems-MacBook-Pro-2.local sharingd[257] <Notice>: 09:37:06.218 : Stopping Handoff scanning
[Code] ....
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MacBook Pro Retina, 13", Late 2013, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
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My macbook has developed a problem where when the lid is shut and the power is connected it wakes up from sleep and then goes back to sleep and repeats this process every 30-60 seconds.
What's weird is it doesn't wake from sleep and get stuck in this loop when�the lid is open and the power is connected and I select sleep from the Apple menu�when the lid is shut and the power is NOT connected and is running from the battery
I recently updated my mac to Snow Leopard and put in a new HDD and since doing so the problem has been occurring.
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Jul 1, 2010
I'm running Windows 7 with boot camp on my unibody MacBook Pro.
Quite often, I'll close the lid to put it to sleep, then, a few minutes later I'll notice that the Apple light has turned on, and when I open the lid I confirm that it's woken up.
In Event Viewer, I've noticed that every time this happens, the following event is listed, in the Power-Troubleshooter category: "Wake Source: Device -USB Composite Device".
I have no USB devices, ExpressCards, CDs, or anything plugged in.
EDIT: It doesn't only happen when it's running on battery power, since it just happened with the AC adapter in.
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