Project- Power PC

[Hyburnate]

Any updates? 2 Days later?

 

[233]

unfortunately not, 2 12 hours shifts and 3 children really slow down your progress.

that said i'm bidding on a g5 to do next once this is finished so i better get my finger out.


spent most of this morning sketching ideas together including fitting an ipod dock into a dc/dvd drive and having it pop out at the touch of a button. and lots of other stupid plans

hopefully have an update tommorow

 

[Hyburnate]

Ouch 2x 12 Hour shifts. Damn.

Good Luck, You can pick a G5 up for £50 I was looking the other day

 

[ReU_VOoDOo]

You should be using a Angle Grinder.

You mean the "Anger Grinder" see G-Dubs tools and uses thread.

This is a very interesting mod foxtrot, wish you the best of luck!

 

[King Damager]

You might be having issues with the Dremel because you're supposed to cut with the blade perpendicular.

You may well be doing this, but just thought I'd say judging by the pictures

Looks like this should be interesting

kd

 

[233]

cheers for the dremel tips


going to go get some cutting discs tommorow if i get time and get stuck in about this again

 

[panyan]

try the speed click system for the Dremel

Much stronger discs and a joy to use.

+1 the speedclic mandrel and discs are very good, but make a lot more noise for some reason?

 

[233]

well i managed a sneaky wee half day today

so off to B&Q i popped and bought this

woohoo speedclic dremel malarkey ahoy


but first things first coffee

some girly safety tips with the dremel that i ignored

and then after all the huffing anpuffing and going and buying new dremel bits i realise the bit i need to cut out is actually rivetted on.

I feel a complete muppet now



broke the drill out and 2 mins later

mobo in place

i could cut that middle support but i dont think i'll bother just now. worry about that once its all up and running if i dont end up going for a standalone soundcard

more liney up shots

and standoffs drilled into place

now rather than gluing the standoffs in i went for chemical metal

epic name

also sorted the loose backplate

stripped my daily rig for some bits

and bench tested the mobo (it works fine btw


got somore more measuring done

and now my standoffs are tightly in place i've started a quick rebuild to make sure things clear

off to the inlaws for dinner shortly so more piccies when i come back

 

[233]

case is currently in the bath are getting a quick clean

hopefully have a running rig tonight

 

[233]

and i'm back


decided i'm going to use this as my main rig so time for some power

looks like my 6970 might just fit

holy oversized gpu batman

psu fitted

i really need a modular power supply for this build


this is the most frustrating computer related job ever fitting a 120mm fan into a g4 case, its an enclosure with only one open side and a slight gap at the bottom, nightmare to try and line the fan up and screw it in place

Hard drives slung into a caddy

and fitted

think i need some cable extenders

woot she posts

now just to get the rest of the cabling in, tidy things up and i've got a working rig,

stage 1 of the project is complete (almost)

 

[King Damager]

Grats on the POST

Looks pretty good

Anything else planned?

kd

 

[233]

its all turned to **** was running fine, siting in bios screen whilst i made some adjustments and all of a sudden pop, all the leccy in the house went off

reset leccy and the mac is dead

somethings shorted or popped somewhere. i think this counts as an epic project setback and failure

 

[233]

paaa just done a quick n dirty psu test (shorted green and black) and the psu is dead.




members mart here i come.


anyone care to suggest what else may be fried?

 

[Serpantine]

Depends Fox, Board / Hardrives and Ram will be the first on the watch list, but it will probably have just stopped at the psu.

Hope you get some luck with your new psu from the MM.

 

[233]

giving up

booted up the trusty powermac and rocking with dual 1ghz and 384 meg of ram woot

 

[King Damager]

Hopefully it's just your PSU that's gone :S

kd

 

[233]

going to strip the psu down and see if i can repair it else its no project over the weekend

was all for breaking my rig up last night and buying an imac ;( bitterly bitterly dissapointed so now to see if i can get the psu working or get a new one and see what i've messed up

 

[panyan]

personally i;d buy a cheap psu just to test it - if it was just the psu that blew - thats good, but it it blew more, you can then make the decision to invest more and fix or leave it there

 

[233]

only good thing is i have a known working rig to test the new psu and components in

ad in the MM so hopefully get something this weekend else i'll order a new psu next week

 

[233]

well no progress to report as i've spent the night playing with a G4 MDD which is now my new browsing rig,

slapped a gig of ram into it and put 10.5.8 on its actually quite pleasent to use despite the dual 867mhz cpus an mere gig of ram thankfully have a bit more ram on the way(2gigs) and i'm scouring ebay for a cpu upgrade. hopefully get a new psu for the project this weekend and crack on with the build- then the watercooling