[Cube] Spontaneous power loss?

[Melvetta Overturf]

I recently bought a power supply on eBay (new) for $41.00. Not a bad 
price! Reason for purchase is my Cube won't power up at all. No matter 
what I do, even with the new power supply. I read an email from a Cuber 
not long ago that said you can connect the Cube to another Mac with a 
firewire cable and you can use your info through the other Mac. I 
haven't tried this yet but am going to soon. Am also going to give the 
Cuda switch a poke and see if that will help. I shall see.......
Good luck to you A.J.
On Jul 17, 2005, at 10:26 PM, Morning, A.J. wrote:

> Heya Cubists -
>
>     Have had a quite annoying problem with this puppy for more than a 
> year
> now, though the frequency seems totally random: Sometimes, my Cube just
> turns right off. As if I'd just yanked the plug right out of the wall.
>
>     Now, previously, I'd read where some Cubes would spontaneously 
> "sleep"
> due to issues with the thermal switch on the top, and the fix for this
> involved making a slight modification to the inside of the housing to
> better-insulate the switch. This may or may not have done anything -- 
> the
> problem is so erratic, it's hard to tell.
>
>     I put in a little bit of circular stick-on paper there, and also 
> turned
> off the automatic power management in Preferences. The computer stopped
> dropping to sleep.
>
>     Now, sometimes, it just drops power entirely. Konks right out. 
> It'll
> power back up at the touch of the switch, and sometimes stay on for up 
> to
> two weeks at a time, but eventually, it's bound to just drop dead 
> again.
>
>     So I got to wondering: The power supply on these things; are they 
> known
> to have issues? My troubleshooting keeps pointing me towards "power 
> supply,"
> but I'm hesitant to drop $80 (best price I've found anywhere, at OWC) 
> on a
> new power supply if that's not the problem.
>
>     Any pointers you have are of interest to me, thanks in advance.
>
>
> Cheers,
> A.J.
> --
> "...there is more to life than gears and horsepower -
> not much, admittedly, but you get the point"
>                                                          -- Road Kill
>
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