[Cube] G4 Cube Power Issues

[Sascha Rojtas]

OK I have memory, AirPort, and the hard drive already, so I think I'm fine with that.  Can you send me an email with a price you would offer it for?

Thank you!

On May 2, 2011, at 6:58 PM, George Pepper wrote:

> The Cube I could part with is a G4 450 20GB with a CD-ROM drive.  It was in an office, so the lucite has an anti-theft tie-down glued to it and the AirPort antenna has been disconnected.  It has OS X 10.4 installed on it and it worked fine last time I checked it.  I can't remember offhand how much memory it has, but I have lots of Cube memory sticks lying around.
> 
> George
> 
> On May 2, 2011, at 5:50 PM, Sascha Rojtas wrote:
> 
>> Never mind, spoke too soon.
>> 
>> It's still turning off after I put in the battery and after I took it out, it still is turning off the hard drive when in use.   George, what features do those Cubes you have?
>> 
>> 
>> On May 2, 2011, at 5:54 PM, Sascha Rojtas wrote:
>> 
>>> Just an update that the Cube has been running with high cpu usage since last night and the hard drive hasn't turned off once.  I'll put in the battery and see if the problem recurs.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On May 2, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Riba wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 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?
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