Sascha, I'm curious as to whether you replaced your dead battey with a fresh one or if you just removed the dead battery and left the socket empty. It sounds like the latter, but I'd be surprised if the Cube would behave well that way. John H On May 1, 2011, at 15:00, cube-request at listserver.themacintoshguy.com wrote: > Found the problem... Dead pram battery. After I removed that it booted up properly and the hard drive hasn't turned off yet