[CUBE] Chronic sleep/shutdown problems

[Michael Blossom]

Selma, 

One cause of random sleep/shutdown problems is interference from nearby
devices.  Where I work, we had such problems anytime one of our guards
with a walkie-talkie came too close to the Cube.

At home, I had this problem a few times until I moved my DSL modem
further away from my Cube.

Does the Cube sit right next to the Gateway or to other devices?  If so,
see if you can give it a bit of distance.  If that doesn't solve the
problem, you may need to replace the power gasket on the Cube, which I
think is discussed on cubeowner.com.

Good luck
Mike


>Hello,
>
>I've been lurking on this list since I got my beloved Cube about two 
>months ago.
>
>I have a fairly stock 450 mhz cube that has 256 mb of RAM (what it came 
>with) and an upgraded 60 GB HD.
>
>Now, I love the thing very much, since it's quieter than the Gateway PC 
>it shares a monitor with. But I've been having a chronic problem with 
>random shutdowns. I have read the cubeowner.com faq on this, and 
>Apple's website, but I had to open my cube three times tonight, and am 
>opening it up about once a week (the rest of the time I'm using the 
>Gateway). Needless to say, this does not inspire confidence in Apple 
>with my PC-using friends, especially since the other half of the time 
>it's randomly disconnecting.
>
>One possibility I have thought of is that I have to push the core down 
>every time I open the machine up, or it falls to the desk (this is 
>about when I discovered where the battery was in it). Could this be why 
>my DC-to-DC board is giving me such problems? Or is there something 
>else I'm doing wrong?
>
>Thank you,
>Selma mcCrory