[Cube] New (to me) Cube Locks Up

[R. Mansfield]

Correction: Obviously, I meant that the Cube has 1.5 gb of RAM. not 1.6.

On Jul 18, 2007, at 9:21 PM, R. Mansfield wrote:

> I bought a Cube for $100 today. The owner said that it had been  
> locking up/freezing for no apparent reason.
>
> The machine had only  been reloaded once during the last seven  
> years (when the hard drive was upgraded), so I figured that  
> reloading OS X from scratch would do the trick.
>
> So today, I erased the hard drive, formatting it as Mac OS X  
> Extended (journaled). I did not include drivers for OS 9, nor did I  
> install OS 9. I installed OS X Tiger which loaded without a problem.
>
> So far, even with the new install, the machine has now locked up on  
> me twice--once while just sitting there idle and another time while  
> downloading OS X updates.
>
> When I say locked up, I mean that the mouse arrow freezes in place  
> and the keyboard is unresponsive. I have no other option but to  
> restart the machine.
>
> Here are the specs:
>
> RAM: 1.6 GB
> HD: 128 GB
> Processor: 450 Mhz G4
> Firmware: 4.1.9
>
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rick
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