[Cube] G4 Cube Power Issues

[Sascha Rojtas]

Just an update that the Cube has been running with high cpu usage since last night and the hard drive hasn't turned off once.  I'll put in the battery and see if the problem recurs.


On May 2, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Riba wrote:

> 
> 
> Andrew K wrote:
>>> Sascha Rojtas wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Found the problem... Dead pram battery. After I removed that it booted up
>>>> properly and the hard drive hasn't turned off yet
>>>> Sent from my LG phone
>>>>       
>>> I'd be surprised if the battery was causing this problem....but
>>> important thing is that it works now.
>>>     
>> 
>> Never heard of this on a Cube but I know this is a common issue with
>> G3 Pismo powerbooks, they frequently will not start with a bad CMOS
>> battery but run fine with the CMOS battery unplugged.
>> 
>> Perhaps a bad battery is just strong enough to keep corrupted
>> information, unplug it and the CMOS memory goes blank?
>>   
> 
> Yeah, but to cause the intermittent hard drive problems?
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