[Cube] Is my Cube dead?

[Riba]

> My 450 MHz (Panther 10.3.9) Cube recently began writing corrupt data back to the HD, slowly causing app crashes and
> eventually a kernel panic at least once a day. After a week or so of repairing things with fsck, eventually I'd have to re-
> initialize and start from scratch. I've pulled all the extra RAM and replaced the RAM that I did have to leave in. Now it 
> won't even take a new system install--with Jaguar, Panther, and Tiger, I get installation errors and no system will install. 
> It passes all the tests that Drive 10 has (I don't have TTPro). 

> Is there anything else this could be besides a major hardware failure requiring a motherboard replacement (which won't be 
> worth it to me)?

Most likely your hard drive is failing. A cheap and simple fix is to try
with a different hard drive. I was thinking about external unit, but in
that case you won't rule out the possible controller failure.