[CUBE] Yo is my logic board fried?

[Rick Rodman]

Many people have had the firewire ports die on the cube.  If the other 
port is still working you might get a firewire hub to isolate the port. 
  Someone mentioned a powered firewire hub from Kensington maybe?

As for the USB audio, I used to have the speakers cut out when playing 
a loud sound or music (a loud click would occur).  Since I plugged them 
into one of the ports on the Cube itself, I haven't had that problem 
lately.  YMMV.  One thing some folks have done is use a Griffin iMic 
with amplified speakers.  That gives you an audio in port, too.  You 
need an audio adapter Radio Shack PN 274-369 to connect to your preamp. 
  The USB powered speakers used by the Cube are a design that Apple has 
abandoned; it didn't work well.

Your logic board is not fried.  Nearly everything is working normally.  
The Cube was an ambitious design with several unique ideas.  Maybe it 
was too ambitious, but its beauty and uniqueness endear it to our 
special group of users.

On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 04:41 PM, Francois Barbary wrote:

>
> On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 01:35  AM, Cube List wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2003 01:33:43 -0700
>> From: Francois Barbary <franc-b at shaw.ca>
>> Subject: [CUBE] yo is my logic board fried?
>> Message-id: <DDD4EB0C-3A76-11D7-BEA0-003065AC083A at shaw.ca>
>>
>> K well it's 1 30 and i have an early lab tomorrow morning. so ill be
>> really brief.
>> you guys know my cube it's the one with the dam monitors button going
>> off spontaneously, and with usb sound problems, and with fw disk
>> problems... just now one of my fw ports is completely dead. it's 
>> really
>> annoying. because i have an ipod and a external fw drive and want to
>> buy a burner...
>>
>> do you think it could be a logic board failure? or even a system
>> controller chip (does this g4 have one?)
>>
>> (oh by the way by usb sound problem, i mean that when my speakers cut
>> out the headphone jack still works odd eh? ( i thought earlier that it
>> could be that lil` amplifier but i think it's usb because it has a
>> resetting sound like static or just plugging in a electric gutiar to 
>> an
>> amp. its extremely annoying, (because i am a hardcore audiophile)
>>
>> anyway ill post back hopefully tomorrow.
>> thanks guys. (and girls)
>> Francois
>
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