[Cube] G4 Cube Power Issues

[Riba]

Andrew K wrote:
>> Sascha Rojtas wrote:
>>      
>>> Found the problem... Dead pram battery. After I removed that it booted up
>>> properly and the hard drive hasn't turned off yet
>>> Sent from my LG phone
>>>        
>> I'd be surprised if the battery was causing this problem....but
>> important thing is that it works now.
>>      
>
> Never heard of this on a Cube but I know this is a common issue with
> G3 Pismo powerbooks, they frequently will not start with a bad CMOS
> battery but run fine with the CMOS battery unplugged.
>
> Perhaps a bad battery is just strong enough to keep corrupted
> information, unplug it and the CMOS memory goes blank?
>    

Yeah, but to cause the intermittent hard drive problems?