[Cube] G4 Cube Power Issues

[George Pepper]

The Cube I could part with is a G4 450 20GB with a CD-ROM drive.  It  
was in an office, so the lucite has an anti-theft tie-down glued to it  
and the AirPort antenna has been disconnected.  It has OS X 10.4  
installed on it and it worked fine last time I checked it.  I can't  
remember offhand how much memory it has, but I have lots of Cube  
memory sticks lying around.

George

On May 2, 2011, at 5:50 PM, Sascha Rojtas wrote:

> Never mind, spoke too soon.
>
> It's still turning off after I put in the battery and after I took  
> it out, it still is turning off the hard drive when in use.    
> George, what features do those Cubes you have?
>
>
> On May 2, 2011, at 5:54 PM, Sascha Rojtas wrote:
>
>> 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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