[Cube] New (to me) Cube Locks Up

[R. Mansfield]

Well, I spoke too soon. It locked up again while trying to update to  
the current version of OS X.

This time it was far enough into the update that the lock-up kept the  
Cube from starting at all.

So now I'm installing again from the Tiger CD.

Before I go much further, anymore ideas as to why a Cube would lock  
up like this?

Another possibility--could the Cube be overheating?


On Jul 18, 2007, at 9:50 PM, R. Mansfield wrote:

> 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.
> ___
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> 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
>>>> _______________________________________________
>>>>