[Cube] The infamous Cube shutdown problem

[Seth Maynard]

That is great I am happy that that worked for you, it could have been  
something more serious. You are lucky it was not some kind of power  
problem like the dc/dc board that has been known to crap out in the  
cubes

- Seth Maynard

On Jul 5, 2007, at 4:14 PM, Tom Burns <tlburns at owu.edu> wrote:

> On 7/4/07 5:41 PM, "Seth Maynard" <sethwm2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Jul 4, 2007, at 5:32 PM, Mike <mliii at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Sounds like the gasket to me. When a Cube is shipped, the movement  
> in shipping can trigger the problem in a Cube that never had it  
> before.
> You can make a gasket using a piece of paper- I used a coffee filter  
> with the theory being the paper used in a coffee filter is a bit  
> thicker and able to withstand higher temps- but that's probably  
> overkill on my part!
> On Jul 4, 2007, at 2:26 PM, Tom Burns wrote:
>
>
> Thanks to Seth and all who replied.  I ended up making a gasket out  
> of coffee filter and putting it in underneath the original gasket,  
> which was obviously dried out and loose.  (The old gasket serves  
> merely to help hold the paper in, apparently. I any case, the fix  
> works fine! I ran the Cube for 8+ hours with nary a reboot or  
> spontaneous shutdown.
>
> Again, thanks for all your help, Cuboids.
>
> Tom B.
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