<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jun 9, 2005, at 10:29 AM, Scott Strungis wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">Have you tried another HD in the machine?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Yeah, that's about when it started (probably a coincidence)--I upgraded to a 60GB drive, and started getting the errors. I sent the HD back thinking it was defective, got a new one, and had the same problems. I re-installed the original 20GB drive, and it's better in the sense that it takes longer to self-destruct, but it still does.</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">You could also try a clean</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">install to an external device, like a firewire drive, or an iPod.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></P></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Works great running from an external Firewire, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's the HD (see above)--could be the Firewire is using different circuitry up to a point, and bypassing whatever's bad in the Cube (HD ribbon for example?)</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">Try</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">downloading an Ubuntu Live CD.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>If this machine works nicely from the</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">CDROM boot, then that rules out a lot of things and also tends to point to</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Lucida Grande" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Lucida Grande">the HD.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>I'm not familiar with Ubuntu--sounds like I ought to be.</DIV><BR><DIV> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">---------</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Rick Branscomb</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Webmaster</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Southern NH Apple Core</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><A href="mailto:ebranscomb@mac.com">ebranscomb@mac.com</A></FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><A href="http://homepage.mac.com/applepower/">http://homepage.mac.com/applepower/</A></FONT></P> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>