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Cube for $20!

I have no idea. I think something was spilled on top of it.

All the parts came today! Heres a complete list from order #1:

ATI Rage 128 card

DC-to-DC board with HDD and Disk Drive power cable

Video Riser card (with cables)

PRAM battery holder and original Battery

Logic Board

Ethernet board

Modem board

1GB of RAM (2x 512MB sticks)

450MHz PPC G4 Processor card

Order #2:

2GB of RAM (4x 512MB sticks) for eMac and Cube.

New Batteries for eMac and Cube are on their way.

Total part investment for Cube: $105

Total Investment: $165

 
Well, the display works. I plugged in the ADC cable and the Power Cable. The power button turned white. Display power light turned yellow, and a little folder with a blinking "?" and Finder.

"IT WORKED!!!!!".

Now, to find a install discs.

 
Just FYI the cube is pretty finicky about ram in my experience. I had a bunch of ram, after huge swapping and restarting finally got three sticks of 133 512 mb sticks it would like.
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I bought 4 512MB Kingston PC-133 sticks, I put one in last night, it was fine. Tried it this morning, didn't want to boot. Removed the new RAM and it booted fine.

 
It just IDE but anything less than 120 gigs should work. The jumper setting seemed to be an issue as some drives need to be set as master and some as cable select. Just start off cd after installing, use disk utility to format then install. While you have it all apart I suggest adding a whisper quiet fan mod. ADC issues seem to hurt the cube a lot. That 28 volts just waiting just stress that machine for no reason. Even while asleep so when not in use I turn mine off.

 
Try of 100 stuff, found that worked better. Doesn't matter wether you have an ADC monitor hooked up its still pulling the 28 volts. That's the issue. Also the power supply is external and has no fan so that's always a high failure issue. Again all this is why I turn the machine off when not in use.

 
I was choosing between the eMac and Cube to put on my new work desk (even though I'm going to live here for maybe another year) and choose the eMac. Good thing I only paid $15 for the RAM, as the guy has no returns > :( . Any particular brand of RAM?

 
Pc133 in theory is supposed to work, but again the cube is a low power strange bird. I have piles of 256 stuff I tried and the PC100 stuff worked more often than the 133.

 
There is a possibility that the IDE cable is dead. I tried running the 10.0.3 installer and it won't recognize the original HDD or the replace I got today. I switched out the power cable to be safe, but that didn't fix the problem, but it does work because the disk drive spins up on boot up. Now that the big stuff is out of the way, it's just time for the little stuff.

 
Ok first does the DVD drive look original ( twice thickness of a laptop thinner than a full sized drive. Should also have an adapter board screwed to it to attack normal power and IDE cable. If its not its possibly set to master, if that's possible snap off pin 40 to create a cables select option, then make sure hard drive is set to master. Then try to boot. That's hat I had to do when I mounted a laptop DVD drive in mine to make it boot, and be able to boot from OS disk in DVD drive. Most laptop drives are apparently set to master and when directly plugged into the IDE cable confuse it, snapping pin 40 off fixes it. No jumper or jumper set to master for the hard drive, try it both ways while booting from cd, run disk utility or you won't see it because probably not Mac formatted yet (silly right). Hopefully I'm helping?

Good luck

 
Yes the disk drive is original but it doesn't work. It makes a sound when starting, but nothing else. mcdermd is getting me one for the iMac that will work. What pin do I cut or where do I move the jumper?

 
The pin would be on the disk drive, just look up cable select 40 pin fix on any search and it should one right up. As for the hard drive jumpers, the cable select, master, slave pins should be marked or labeled near the cable and power plugs on the drive.

 
Well, the original HDD works. I read over everything on the label and it said to move the jumper to a certain spot to put in into cable-select. I did that, put the Cube back together and booted with the option key down to try and install 10.0.3. When I did that, low-and-behold the internal drive showed up with some random name. Clicked on it, booted to it, and it came up running 10.4.11 Tiger but had some very, very, very, VERY GROSS pictures on it. I really don't want to go into details.

ANYWAY, booting into 10.4 now to wipe the drive. Hope to install 10.0.3 soon.

 
Well, it didn't like the fact I tried to install 10.0.3, but it had no problem with 10.4! Infact, guess how I am typing this? I have it hooked up to a spare AirPort Express via Ethernet. It runs very well! The only problem, I left it inactive for about 2 minutes, and it turned off on me. At least it works!

 
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