[Cube] Spontaneous power loss?

[Richard Clark]

The power switch is probably going bad if you have another way to  
turn on your cube disconnect the one on the cube.

Richard
On 18/lug/05, at 05:26, 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.