Mac G5 Keeps Going to Sleep Because of Dust
February 21st, 2008
My Macintosh G5 kept going to sleep and I didn’t know why. I figured it must need some software housekeeping, so I checked the disk for errors and set the disk utility to repair any it found. Then I made sure the hard drives had plenty of space. I cleared room in my iTunes library. I uninstalled some programs I wasn’t using. In the end, I learned the problem was very physical. Taking out the fan, I saw the dust that had accumulated. This was despite running a hepa filter in the room. Vacuuming out the dust fixed the problem, which was that the computer was overheating.
