[Cube] G4 Cube Power Issues

[George Paterson]

You need to make a gasket round the proximity switch from tissue paper or something.
Check out cubeowner,con or google it and I'm sure you'll find more details.

Cheers
Geordie


On 4 May 2011, at 05:46, Roy Hackett wrote:

> 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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