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Resolved GOD, thank you...it has been a wonderful year......Yes i snatched a CUBE!

iamMacPerson said:
This makes me really want to pull out my Cube and get it running again. For whatever reason it kept shutting itself off when I tried booting it about 6 months ago. I thought it might be touch button so I tried taping a piece of anti-static bag on the inside of the case and that didn't work.

I'd also like to stock pile a few Cubes for spare parts. I'd also love to get a new case for it, but considering I paid $20 for mine (I needed to buy all new electronics which totaled to $70 though).

Very nice job OP! Enjoy that Cube it looks awesome!
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U should pull it out and let it do its act ! Thanks, i am enjoying it.
 
California said:
The Cube's oddly spec'd and overlarge optical drive was notorious for failing. It shared the same size drive with the slot load iMac G3s

They only came in three versions: CD rom, CDRW, or a CD/DVD rom read only combo drive. I was just noting that your drive might be unused after fourteen years.

I owned a couple of 500mhz but I think they were CDRW drives. The DVD combo drive of course is the most desirable.
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My Cube is 450mhz, with a Dvd Rom, which was assembled in Singapore.
 

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California said:
I had a Cube once that had a bad power button and used this keyboard to power it up. Nice to have it with the Cube. The Cube speakers suck and need to be amplified...

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If that really is the packaging from the original Apple shipper (btw, is this a 450mhz or a 500mhz Cube? The 500mhz only came direct from Apple mail order.)

But if this is the original plastic over the top of the Cube, it could be you have an actual working CD drive. Or if you are lucky, maybe a CDRW drive. Or if you are fantastically lucky -- a DVD/CD combo drive (but not sure if that was even a BTO on the Cube...)
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I bet the plastic is the original fitting, take a look at this ..... The area around the hole for the screw is perfectly cut...
 

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K guys, i am not creating multiple posts in purpose ! I cant seem to attach more than a single image at a time, with my Ipad.

....back to the Cube.... Also note that the plastic, which protects the Apple logo, is still intact as well.
 

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Hi guys, finally i found the time to meddle with my cube.

It was a dead hdd....upon replacing the hdd, the cube began to fllash the finder logo and the "?". As i tried to insert a Jaguar dics, the cube did nothing but kept spitting out the disc.

I then tried to boot with an external optical drive, Thank God, the grey Apple logo appeared! Yahooooooo...

But then i was stuck at the stage where logo which goes in circles, attaempring to begin the os installation. The hdd which i installed was yet to be formated, i thought i could format it with the disk utility just prior to the installation, in fact the hdd had a partition with a windows Xp OS.

Then i saw the 'no entry' sign ! Maybe i need to format the hdd before attempting to install the Jaguar.

Any thoughts on why the 'no entry' logo appear, whilst the 'circle icon' keeps circling.

Sorry abt the images, evertime i upload an image with my ipad, something funny occurs ( only in Mcrumours though)
 

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Often happens when the disk cannot identify a suitable installation target. Your disk does not need partitioning or formatting prior to installation. That is what Disk Utility is for. Possibly an issue with your HDD cable?

Try booting in verbose mode (Cmd+V) and see where the boot sequence hangs.
 
weckart said:
Often happens when the disk cannot identify a suitable installation target. Your disk does not need partitioning or formatting prior to installation. That is what Disk Utility is for. Possibly an issue with your HDD cable?

Try booting in verbose mode (Cmd+V) and see where the boot sequence hangs.
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Hi,

Verbose mode is it, ok, will give it a spin and report back....
 
Yup. It cannot see your hard drive. There are tricks to overcome this from dealing with hackintoshes, however, this is bona fide Apple hardware and therefore any failure to see the hard drive would tend to indicate a hardware issue rather than a driver or an EFI emulation hiccup.

Try reseating your HDD. Check cables for damage etc. I have not had a Cube before so cannot advise specifically what to look out for.
 
Try setting the new hard drive to be master. I think Cubes are one of the rare PowerPC Macs that cannot work well or at all when set to cable select or slave on the hard drive.
 
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Intell said:
Try setting the new hard drive to be master. I Cubes are one of the rare PowerPC Macs that cannot work well or at all when set to cable select or slave on the hard drive.
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Oh...ok that makes sense. Actually i pulled out the pin which sets the master / slave setting...

But initially did try with pin being in its native setting and that drive was a Maxtor which booted XP sucesfully. I had never medalled with the setting in that drive. I believe that the drive was still in factory setting, it came with a brand new Windows XP which i purchased in 2003.

I will try again ...
 
Intell said:
Try setting the new hard drive to be master. I think Cubes are one of the rare PowerPC Macs that cannot work well or at all when set to cable select or slave on the hard drive.
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Hi intell,

This is my situation.... plugged in the pin connector as the Master drive (Maxtor hdd), i still could not install the OSX.

The i noticed that the original HDD in the Cube had 10 pins, while the maxtor only had 8 pins and the position of the pins connection in the Cube is different.. now how do i go about this... Thanks..:apple:

the 2nd pic is the original HDD
 

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Find out what position the OEM drive is and make the new drive the same. You can also try removing the optical drive as a test.
 
Jumper pin locations are not the same between brands. Read the sticker on the top of the drive and it should indicate the locations for Master, Slave and Cable Select.

Go with Master.
 
I just dug through my hard drive drawer and pulled out every Maxtor I could find. After looking at a dozen different Maxtor drives, I'm guessing that you probably have one of the Quantum-derived ones. If that's indeed the case, it appears as though you have it jumpered correctly for Master.

Here's a photo of the diagram on top of one of these drives. Note that the part designated as "key" is the single pin between the IDE connection and the jumpers. I'm also including a photo of a second Maxtor hard drive I had on hand that illustrates the jumper pinouts, but I don't think these apply to your drive(please disregard the bullet hole in this drive).

If your drive looks different from the one I've pictured, I'd suggest Googling the make and model-you should be able to find an instruction manual with the jumper settings on it. And, as mentioned, most newer drives do have the jumper settings on the label on top.

One last thing-make sure your cable is fully and firmly seated-as well as correctly aligned-at both the logic board and the connector on the drive.
 

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bunnspecial said:
I just dug through my hard drive drawer and pulled out every Maxtor I could find. After looking at a dozen different Maxtor drives, I'm guessing that you probably have one of the Quantum-derived ones. If that's indeed the case, it appears as though you have it jumpered correctly for Master.
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bunns..you are special ! Thanks for taking the trouble and checking the HDDs.:)

bunnspecial said:
Here's a photo of the diagram on top of one of these drives. Note that the part designated as "key" is the single pin between the IDE connection and the jumpers. I'm also including a photo of a second Maxtor hard drive I had on hand that illustrates the jumper pinouts, but I don't think these apply to your drive(please disregard the bullet hole in this drive).
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yeah i think it doesn't apply to mine


bunnspecial said:
If your drive looks different from the one I've pictured, I'd suggest Googling the make and model-you should be able to find an instruction manual with the jumper settings on it. And, as mentioned, most newer drives do have the jumper settings on the label on top.
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true, this would be the ideal solution...i mean looking up my maxtor


bunnspecial said:
One last thing-make sure your cable is fully and firmly seated-as well as correctly aligned-at both the logic board and the connector on the drive.
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will check on that again. Thank you so much for the suggestions, guide and trouble taken... appreciate it, will report back.... cheers.
 
hi guys,

Managed to peek into the cube to define the pins settings without dismounting the hdd, tired of dimantling it a zillion times.

the pin setting was totally different. still it did no good. Upon close inspection, found flaw with the ide cabel, was so tiny that it went unnoticed. However couldn't pull it out due to the situation the cable was mounted.

loos like its gonna be a total teardown, i have to look up in ifxit for a tutorial i guess!! Thought i can get it done before Christmas.....aint happening now...:(
 

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