[Cube] New (to me) Cube Locks Up

[R. Mansfield]

Thanks. Great minds must think alike. After I sent the message (from  
my MacBook) I went in to look at the cube and it was locked up again.  
After restarting, on a hunch I went into system preferences and set it  
to never go to sleep.

I think if it can go 24 hours without locking up, that's the solution.

I'll check back in.
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On Jul 18, 2007, at 9:41 PM, TLanden <tlanden at mac.com> wrote:

> I would first try to set the sleep to never ... Only allow the  
> screen to sleep.  I gave my father the Cube five or six years ago  
> (when I purchase a G4 desktop) and a couple of years ago it started  
> freezing on him. I gave him an extra G4 Mac Mini and I took the Cube  
> back. At my home office I installed OS X Server on it and host a few  
> web pages off of it.  It locked up until I turned all the sleep  
> functions off.  It has been functioning flawlessly as a web server  
> for two years.
>
> I did not search any farther for a cure to the freezing, because it  
> has been running longer than I ever thought it would last.  It even  
> survived a lightning strike at my fathers that took out everything  
> else around the computer (including the internal modem on the Cube,  
> one USB port, and one Firewire port)  It is hard to believe it has  
> been on for almost seven years, with maybe a reboot every few months.
>
> Good luck!!!
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 18, 2007, at 9:23 PM, R. Mansfield wrote:
>
>> 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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