It’s a dirty job

admin — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:23:17 +0000

Well, pictures can tell the story here, i disassembled the complete PowerMac and cleaned all the parts

Some before and afters of the parts:

I also cleaned the power-supply and removed the original Apple power-supply (i’m going to reuse the casing for a ATX-powersupply)

And last but certainly not least, the clean and empty case:

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admin — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 22:39:41 +0000

Welcome to the build-log of my PowerMac G5 to Hackintosh conversion. Many have done it before, but i hope you will enjoy this one.. This is how i bought the (defected) PowerMac G5, the case is completely perfect on the outside, i discovered one little scratch on the side, and there are several scratches on the front-panel usb-port. But apart from that it’s perfect.

The inside is a different story, it’s life started as an Dual 2.5Ghz G5 with watercooling. Somehow the watercooling system started leaking and caused major damage to the case interior (de-mineralized water is a real bitch). So here’s the inside, lots and lots of rusted bits:

In the next post i will show you the disassembly and cleaning of the parts..

On the side-note:

Of course i am poor student and if you want to support my project you can help in the following way’s!

Buy spare-parts off me, with the dissambly i recoverd some parts, the folowwing parts have not been tested but seem to be ok!:

2x 2.5Ghz Power G5 Processors
ATi 9600 Pro dual-DVI
6x DDR-memory strips ( no clue how large, i think 1GB each)
DVD/CD-RW “Superdrive”

If you have an unused Arduino-board i’m interested!

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