[Cube] G4 Cube Power Issues

[Bennett and Bloom]

Re. the below, years ago when my Cube was just a month or so new (ah, those
were the days) problems with both the battery as well as having
unpredictable hard drive cut-outs. Apologies if it's already been mentioned
recently on the list, but this was explained bizarrely as being a hardware
problem where a design fault meant that something was touching something
else. I grumbled at the insanity of it but did whatever I was supposed to do
­ it was simple and it solved the problem instantly but I can't remember
what it was. -- ta Nick


> Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 17:54:26 -0400
> From: Sascha Rojtas <srojtas at me.com>
> To: "A place to discuss Apple's Cube."

>> 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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