[Yontsey]

every night before i go to bed i go to system prefs and i turn the sleep mode bar down to 1 min on my PB so the glow of the screen doesnt keep me up. ive been noticing this for awhile but it never really concerned me but i notice after like 2-3 min of being asleep, the screen will flicker, like light up for a second and then go back black. now when i say light up i dont mean come outta sleep and go to the normal screen, it just lights up but will have the grey background. it only does it for a second if not less and im not overly concerned just curious. anybody know what this is???

[trevo]

Why don't you just close the powerbook?

[BenP]

Yontsey, do you just have the PB screen "asleep" with the computer still running? I do that on my iMac if I'm downloading a large file, but I haven't noticed that screen flicker.

[Yontsey]

yeah sorry, i just put the screen to sleep under the energy saver option in sys pref. i dont close it because when i close it, it logs me off AIM, speaking of that is there a way to say logged on and close it too???

[onlyafterdark]

Dont think so. When you enter sleep all connections to the internet are stopped.

[dougiemac]

That occasionally happened to me when I had a mouse attached and it was due to the mouse registering some movement and consequently waking the screen.

[Yontsey]

yeah i could see that happening but the screen wouldnt wake up. it was just a split second flash and like i said, just a grey screen type thing. you definatly dont see the desktop when it does it because for the last 3-4 days i watch it before i go to bed to see if i can determine what it is but i have no idea, ohwell, as long as it doesnt appear to be hurting anything doesnt matter right? haha