[Cube] G4 Cube Power Issues

[George Pepper]

Top. ~rimshot~

On May 5, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Bob Hasselbrink wrote:

> I remember using a Zig Zag.  :^)
>
>
> On May 5, 2011, at 10:54 AM, George Paterson wrote:
>
>> You need to make a gasket round the proximity switch from tissue  
>> paper or something.
>> Check out cubeowner,con or google it and I'm sure you'll find more  
>> details.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Geordie
>>
>>
>> On 4 May 2011, at 05:46, Roy Hackett wrote:
>>
>>> HI All,
>>> Glad to know we are still out there.
>>> I have come down with the old problem of the ON button triggering  
>>> after a few seconds when a reboot is done.  Sometimes after a few  
>>> minutes I will see the monitor LED glow bright an go back to dim.  
>>> A few second later the LED brightens, just as if I had activated it.
>>> I remember people talking about how to desensitize the cube  
>>> button. Does anyone remember how to do that?  I have tried to lay  
>>> the cube on it's side and pull the guts out a few inches. No  
>>> better. Thanks for you collective help.
>>> Roy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On May 3, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Bennett and Bloom wrote:
>>>
>>>> Re. the below, years ago when my Cube was just a month or so new  
>>>> (ah, those
>>>> were the days) problems with both the battery as well as having
>>>> unpredictable hard drive cut-outs. Apologies if it's already been  
>>>> mentioned
>>>> recently on the list, but this was explained bizarrely as being a  
>>>> hardware
>>>> problem where a design fault meant that something was touching  
>>>> something
>>>> else. I grumbled at the insanity of it but did whatever I was  
>>>> supposed to do
>>>> – it was simple and it solved the problem instantly but I can't  
>>>> remember
>>>> what it was. -- ta Nick
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 17:54:26 -0400
>>>>> From: Sascha Rojtas <srojtas at me.com>
>>>>> To: "A place to discuss Apple's Cube."
>>>>
>>>>>> 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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