Sierra Sleep issue

[heynownow]

I recently updated my Sandy Bridge system to 10.12.4 from 10.10.5 so as to put in a new 1050ti gpu. Straight off the bat my USB3 does not work, because apparently my early series 7 mobo has a Etron EJ168A controller, which is not supporter by either El Cap or Sierra. Anyhow I will go for a USB 3.1 card shortly, so that's not the problem.

The major problem is that Sierra can't sleep. once it goes into sleep, trying to wake it up means a kernel panic and reboot loop. I searched and found something interesting in one of the official apple forums. a loaded kext, no longer in use can interrupt sleep mode. SO I ran the pmset commands to get the following output.

Listed by owning process:
pid 1660(AddressBookSourceSync): [0x00001435000184db] 00:00:25 PreventUserIdleSystemSleep named: "Address Book Source Sync"
Timeout will fire in 1775 secs Action=TimeoutActionTurnOff
pid 121(hidd): [0x000008710009829b] 00:50:36 UserIsActive named: "com.apple.iohideventsystem.queue.tickle.4294968097.3"
Timeout will fire in 837 secs Action=TimeoutActionRelease
Kernel Assertions: 0x4=USB
id=504 level=255 0x4=USB mod=01/01/70, 5:30 AM description=com.apple.usb.externaldevice.1a111000 owner=IOUSBHostDevice
id=505 level=255 0x4=USB mod=01/01/70, 5:30 AM description=com.apple.usb.externaldevice.1a114000 owner=IOUSBHostDevice
id=507 level=255 0x4=USB mod=01/01/70, 5:30 AM description=com.apple.usb.externaldevice.1a112000 owner=Mobile Router
Idle sleep preventers: IODisplayWrangler

I don't know wtf is IODisplayWrangler and it seems IOUSB host device is holding up sleep. what should I do?

have set my system identifier as 12,2 and here is the output of CPU states using power mgmt commands

bash-3.2# cat /tmp/AppleIntelInfo.dat

AppleIntelInfo.kext v1.2 Copyright © 2012-2015 Pike R. Alpha. All rights reserved

Settings:
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logMSRs............................: 1
logIGPU............................: 0
logIntelRegs.......................: 1
logCStates.........................: 1
logIPGStyle........................: 1
InitialTSC.........................: 0x99a950f237
MWAIT C-States.....................: 4384

Model Specific Regiters
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MSR_CORE_THREAD_COUNT......(0x35) : 0x40004
MSR_PLATFORM_INFO..........(0xCE) : 0x100070012100
MSR_PMG_CST_CONFIG_CONTROL.(0xE2) : 0x1E000403
MSR_PMG_IO_CAPTURE_BASE....(0xE4) : 0x10414
IA32_MPERF.................(0xE7) : 0x1E75583F3E
IA32_APERF.................(0xE8) : 0x272F01E787
MSR_FLEX_RATIO.............(0x194) : 0xE0000
MSR_IA32_PERF_STATUS.......(0x198) : 0x2B6500002B00
MSR_IA32_PERF_CONTROL......(0x199) : 0x3B00
IA32_CLOCK_MODULATION......(0x19A) : 0x0
IA32_THERM_STATUS..........(0x19C) : 0x88300000
IA32_MISC_ENABLES..........(0x1A0) : 0x850089
MSR_MISC_PWR_MGMT..........(0x1AA) : 0x400000
MSR_TURBO_RATIO_LIMIT......(0x1AD) : 0x3B3B3B3B
IA32_ENERGY_PERF_BIAS......(0x1B0) : 0x0
MSR_POWER_CTL..............(0x1FC) : 0x4005F
MSR_RAPL_POWER_UNIT........(0x606) : 0xA1003
MSR_PKG_POWER_LIMIT........(0x610) : 0xA58000009F40
MSR_PKG_ENERGY_STATUS......(0x611) : 0x141F8318
MSR_PKG_POWER_INFO.........(0x614) : 0x1E002F8
MSR_PP0_CURRENT_CONFIG.....(0x601) : 0x1814149400000960
MSR_PP0_POWER_LIMIT........(0x638) : 0xA580
MSR_PP0_ENERGY_STATUS......(0x639) : 0x103A0530
MSR_PP0_POLICY.............(0x63a) : 0x0
MSR_PKGC3_IRTL.............(0x60a) : 0x8850
MSR_PKGC6_IRTL.............(0x60b) : 0x8868
MSR_PKGC7_IRTL.............(0x60c) : 0x886D
MSR_PKG_C2_RESIDENCY.......(0x60d) : 0x0
MSR_PKG_C3_RESIDENCY.......(0x3f8) : 0x0
MSR_PKG_C6_RESIDENCY.......(0x3f9) : 0x0
MSR_PKG_C7_RESIDENCY.......(0x3fa) : 0x0
IA32_TSC_DEADLINE..........(0x6E0) : 0x99AC0B6FA4

CPU Ratio Info:
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CPU Low Frequency Mode.............: 1600 MHz
CPU Maximum non-Turbo Frequency....: 3300 MHz
CPU Maximum Turbo Frequency........: 5900 MHz
CPU P-States [ (16) 42 43 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 1 2 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 1 2 ]
CPU P-States [ (16) 36 42 43 ]
CPU P-States [ (16) 36 41 42 43 ]
CPU C3-Cores [ 1 2 3 ]
CPU C6-Cores [ 1 2 3 ]
CPU P-States [ (16) 34 36 41 42 43 ]
CPU P-States [ (16) 34 35 36 41 42 43 ]
CPU P-States [ (16) 25 34 35 36 41 42 43 ]
CPU P-States [ (16) 25 31 34 35 36 41 42 43 ]
CPU P-States [ (16) 25 31 32 34 35 36 41 42 43 ]
CPU P-States [ (16) 25 31 32 33 34 35 36 41 42 43 ]
CPU P-States [ (16) 23 25 31 32 33 34 35 36 41 42 43 ]
CPU P-States [ (16) 23 25 31 32 33 34 35 36 39 41 42 43 ]
CPU P-States [ (16) 23 25 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 39 41 42 43 ]
CPU P-States [ (16) 23 25 29 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 39 41 42 43 ]
CPU P-States [ (16) 23 25 29 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 41 42 43 ]
bash-3.2#

What logical steps should I take to rectify the sleep problem?

 

[P1LGRIM]

What logical steps should I take to rectify the sleep problem?

You might try FIX_WAK :

 

[heynownow]

You might try FIX_WAK :

View attachment 253906

Tried that...No Luck. Thanks anyhow

 

[BruceLee5000]

Did you find anything to fix this?
I got into a loop last night, where the 2011 CustoMac Mini wouldn't come back after a deep sleep, the fans would light up and it would start to boot, then reset as if the power supply was shorting out, this kept happening for 5 minutes straight even after I pulled the power plug.
Got busy last night and didn't end up turning it on, but 48 hours later, plugged it in and it booted right up.

Never had any sleep issues 10.7 to 10.11. I had a rough update to 10.12. I figure some file or setting got changed. But not exactly sure since I've never had to solve for sleep before.