CUBE!

[cosmichobo]

G'day,
My Cube's replacement card arrived - GeForceMX2 from a G4 tower. Identical model etc to the card that was inside.

After installation, I connected my 17" Studio Display via ADC port, powered up, and - nothing. Still no power or image on the screen.

Given it's now 2 cards with the same result... and the screen has been checked with my G5 PowerMac... What could be going wrong? Is there some kind of reset required to tell it to use the ADC port instead of VGA?

Thanks

cosmic

 

[claesjanwolff]

What are the specs of your Cube? If 450MHz or 500MHz do you really run Leopard on it? I've mostly used Tiger 10.4 (with max 1.5Gb Ram) but find its far more responsive with 10.3 Panther. My 1.2GHz Cube has had Leopard installed but prefers Tiger.

I have a 600 Mhz cpu upgrade unit and 1,5 Gb RAM.
ATI Graphic cards for 16, 32 Mb and Geforce 6200 256 Mb

Tiger runs fine, but leopard has iTunes and I have the Harman Kardon sticks and bass unit that tuned the Cube in a perfect visual and audio discotheque. The soundless SSD is - imho - a must have as there are no longer moving parts whatsoever in the cube, but that's of cours a matter of taste.

 

[cosmichobo]

Update - Have found that the Cube is missing the black power (?) cable that runs "under" the video card to opposite side of the card that's under the video card... It connects to the video riser card.

 

[minik]

I recently obtained a 450Mhz G4 Cube with working PSU, but no speakers. However the hard drive and/or DVD-ROM is no longer working. I have a 10.3 install disc around but haven't tried booting it up.

 

[cosmichobo]

You could hook up an external firewire hard drive and boot that way to test it out.

The speakers - Apple made 2 types of the little round speakers - 1 for the Cube, and 1 for the iMac. You need to make sure you get the ones WITH the little box attached - a pre-amp - or else they wont work.

 

[minik]

You could hook up an external firewire hard drive and boot that way to test it out.

The speakers - Apple made 2 types of the little round speakers - 1 for the Cube, and 1 for the iMac. You need to make sure you get the ones WITH the little box attached - a pre-amp - or else they wont work.

I will try installing 10.3 to an external FW drive and go from there. As an iMac G4 w/Apple Pro speakers owner here, I have that covered.
When I turned it on, the internal drive seems to make a lot of noise.

 

[minik]

Replaced the hard drive and got everything working under OS X 10.3.9

 

[cosmichobo]

Glad to hear you got it going! One more Cube saved from landfill.

Hopefully I'll pick up the internal power cable I need for mine and can put it to use here.