[Cube] G4 Cube Power Issues

[Roy Hackett]

HI All,
Glad to know we are still out there.
I have come down with the old problem of the ON button triggering  
after a few seconds when a reboot is done.  Sometimes after a few  
minutes I will see the monitor LED glow bright an go back to dim. A  
few second later the LED brightens, just as if I had activated it.
I remember people talking about how to desensitize the cube button.  
Does anyone remember how to do that?  I have tried to lay the cube on  
it's side and pull the guts out a few inches. No better. Thanks for  
you collective help.
Roy



On May 3, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Bennett and Bloom wrote:

> 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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