[CUBE] Cube overheats

[Rick Rodman]

I recommend a fan.  You can get the Panaflo model which is extremely 
quiet.  I have a noisy peecee case fan which I haven't bothered to 
replace because I'm  hard of hearing.  48C is very hot.  Make sure you 
have plenty of open space around the cube and the "muffler".

One thing a couple of folks have done is use the Kensington Fly Fan, 
which plugs into a USB port.  They snake this around and point it down 
into the opening on the top of the box.  You could try any little fan 
which is quiet and blow air under the box, just to see if that makes it 
more stable.  If it does, you've found your problem.

It may not be overheating which causes your crash, however.  There are 
other possiblities.  For example, some of the early cubes didn't have a 
bracket at the end of the video card which braced what is called the 
"DC-DC board".  If you pull your core and turn it around, handle up, 
look at the video card, at the corner away from the connectors, there 
is (on mine) an aluminum brace which holds wraps around the end of a 
wide, short board perpendicular to it.  If you don't have the brace, 
that board can walk loose and cause crashes.

The term "crash" is a rather loose term, actually.  Do you get mouse 
freeze?  Screen going blank?  Sudden shutdown (power off)? Blocky 
pixels overwriting the screen?  Sad mac with hex numbers?  Blue screen 
of death?  Kernel panic?  Are you running mac os 9 or mac os X?

Some of the old macs played a sound of a car crash - I've never heard 
it and I'd like to someday, if someone knows how to produce it 
intentionally.

On http://www.cubeowner.com there is a FAQ with lots of helpful 
information.

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 06:43 PM, Randy Spencer wrote:

> I love the look of the Cube and wanted one since I first saw one, now 
> that
> they are cheaper I got one off EBay with a 17" LCD.  Problem is that I 
> can't
> get it stable, 8 months now and it still crashes all the time.  I put 
> the 20
> gig that came with it back in after the 80 gig Seagate gave up the 
> ghost but
> it's no better.  I spoke to the Geniuses at the Apple Store who 
> pointed me
> to the Temperature probe programs and the one in my Dock now shows me
> running as much as 48 degrees.  With the case off and no number 
> crunching
> it's as little as 24 degrees (Did I mention that was centigrade?)  The
> question is, what is everyone else getting?  Is the a cool running HD 
> that I
> should put in there.  I got the Cube because I didn't want a fan, so 
> unless
> you have a silent solution for that I am probably not interested.  Did 
> I
> read somewhere that there are Dual Processor cards from the other G4s 
> that
> can be used in our cubes?  Do they have a fan?
>
>   -Randy
>
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