[Cube] New (to me) Cube Locks Up

[TLanden]

I would first try to set the sleep to never ... Only allow the screen  
to sleep.  I gave my father the Cube five or six years ago (when I  
purchase a G4 desktop) and a couple of years ago it started freezing  
on him. I gave him an extra G4 Mac Mini and I took the Cube back. At  
my home office I installed OS X Server on it and host a few web pages  
off of it.  It locked up until I turned all the sleep functions off.   
It has been functioning flawlessly as a web server for two years.

I did not search any farther for a cure to the freezing, because it  
has been running longer than I ever thought it would last.  It even  
survived a lightning strike at my fathers that took out everything  
else around the computer (including the internal modem on the Cube,  
one USB port, and one Firewire port)  It is hard to believe it has  
been on for almost seven years, with maybe a reboot every few months.

Good luck!!!




On Jul 18, 2007, at 9:23 PM, R. Mansfield wrote:

> Correction: Obviously, I meant that the Cube has 1.5 gb of RAM. not  
> 1.6.
>
> On Jul 18, 2007, at 9:21 PM, R. Mansfield wrote:
>
>> I bought a Cube for $100 today. The owner said that it had been  
>> locking up/freezing for no apparent reason.
>>
>> The machine had only  been reloaded once during the last seven  
>> years (when the hard drive was upgraded), so I figured that  
>> reloading OS X from scratch would do the trick.
>>
>> So today, I erased the hard drive, formatting it as Mac OS X  
>> Extended (journaled). I did not include drivers for OS 9, nor did  
>> I install OS 9. I installed OS X Tiger which loaded without a  
>> problem.
>>
>> So far, even with the new install, the machine has now locked up  
>> on me twice--once while just sitting there idle and another time  
>> while downloading OS X updates.
>>
>> When I say locked up, I mean that the mouse arrow freezes in place  
>> and the keyboard is unresponsive. I have no other option but to  
>> restart the machine.
>>
>> Here are the specs:
>>
>> RAM: 1.6 GB
>> HD: 128 GB
>> Processor: 450 Mhz G4
>> Firmware: 4.1.9
>>
>>
>> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rick
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