Apple MD772LL/A, MC561LL/A, MD770LL/A, MC560LL/A Putting Your Mac Pro to Sleep or Shutting It Down

ÂÂ If you still don’t see anything on your screen, restart your Mac Pro. Press and hold the power button (®) on your Mac Pro for 5 or 6 seconds, until it turns off. Press the power button (®) again to restart.

ÂÂ If you see a blinking question mark on the screen or a series of flashes from the status light, see Chapter 4, “Problem, Meet Solution” on page 81.

Putting Your Mac Pro to Sleep or Shutting It Down

When you finish working, you can put your Mac Pro to sleep or shut it down.

Putting Your Mac Pro to Sleep

If you’ll be away from your Mac Pro for only a short time, put it to sleep. When your Mac Pro is in sleep, the display’s screen is dark. You can quickly wake your Mac Pro from sleep and bypass the startup process.

To put your Mac Pro to sleep quickly, do one of the following:

ÂÂ Choose Apple () > Sleep from the menu bar.

ÂÂ Press the power button (®) on the front of your Mac Pro.

ÂÂ Press the Control and Eject keys, and then click Sleep in the dialog that appears. ÂÂ Choose Apple () > System Preferences, click Energy Saver, and set a sleep timer.

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