[Cube] I joined with a dead cube.

[Melvetta Overturf]

Tie a knot in he phone line where it comes out of the wall!? I've never 
heard of that but sounds like a keeper to me and living in Tornado 
Alley Oklahoma I need all the help I can get.!!!!!Mel
On Friday, May 27, 2005, at 05:30  PM, Morning, A.J. wrote:

> Quoth Lou Hosta :
>
>> I'm brand new to this list.  I've had a Cube (note the past tense)
>> that I really enjoyed using.  One sad day there was a thunder way off
>> in the distance, somewhere that wasn't even close to my house.
>> Anyway, there was a phone line surge that killed my poor Cube.
>
>     There are several ways to protect against a surge through the 
> phone line
> whacking a modem (and other internals). The very best is simply to 
> unplug
> the line, but... A very cheap and easy safeguard is simply to tie the 
> phone
> line (where it comes out of the wall) into a knot.
>
>     That won't fix your dead cube, but it might help prevent it from
> happening again.
>
>> It has a 450 mHz processor with almost 1 gig of RAM and everything 
>> else
>> is original as the day I bought it.  I took it to an Apple Store and
>> got a quote on what it would cost to get it fixed. For a new Logic
>> Board ($627.72), New Rage 128 Video Card ($147.4), and a new DVD-ROM
>> Optical Drive ($296.47) and labor ($90.10) the grand total comes to
>> $1161.69.  OUCH!!
>
>     Whole cubes sell for as little as $400 if you watch out for 'em. 
> Prolly
> more cost-effective to look for one in half-decent shape and 
> Frankenstein
> it.
>
>     For less than that Rage 128, you could get a pretty nice video card
> upgrade.
>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions, ideas, input like going on to eBay
>> to get spare parts.  I'm a bit apprehensive to do this so if you have
>> had any experiences buying logic boards via eBay, I would like to
>> know about it.
>
>     I've bought some parts through OWC (links on Cubeowner.com) and 
> been
> quite happy with them. There's also on any given day someone, 
> somewhere,
> with a bunch of excess parts to sell off.
>
> Cheers,
> A.J.
>
>
>
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