Recent content by phunguss

It could be possible the flat connector cable has developed an open trace. They are designed for a very limited connect/disconnect lifespan.

Right, so my suggestion is to remove it from the IDE chain to eliminate any master/slave conflict it may be having with your SSD, and try the SSD again.

Does your CF adapter and/or your mSATA adapter have a Master/Slave jumper on it? If you completely disconnect the optical drive from the chain, is the disk then recognized? I am guessing when you connect them to your modern machine you are utilizing a USB to single device adapter.

Latest CMP SAS'y update: I added a couple MacPro4,1 upgraded to 5,1 to my collection. Both are single CPU boards. I was at Free Geek Minneapolis and found an SuperMicro server with 12x300GB SAS drives with trays. It turns out it was 3 groups of 4. The size is the same as a 5.25 Optical...

If you think it is dead/stuck, no point in NOT trying to fix it.. There is the baking method and the freezing method, both are debatable in results.

Have you removed the motherboard and looked at the bottom side as well? Try removing one of the sticks of ram (DIMM or SODIMM) and see if you get the same crashing, then reinstall and remove the other one and try again.

Some views from most angles. My caliper is only Standard Units (USA), so you will have to convert to Metric.

I have a Centris 650. Are you looking for the whole top shelf that holds the power supply and the 3 drives (floppy, hard, cd)? you will need a really large 3D printer for that project. It may be better to try to bend your own from Aluminum instead of steel. I should be able to measure it...

STL file here at post #6, called ACS (Apple Chassis Stand)

Well that was only my 4 foot dish. I have an incomplete 8 foot dish here with a George Foreman grill attached at the focal point. My 12 foot dish was dismantled and gone (1100 3.5" hard drive platters).

The DDR333 PC2700 will down clock itself and is backward compatible to PC2100. That should not be an issue. Anything loose? Can you see the bottom side of the complete board for any burns or scorch marks? Check wiring for possible break in insulation?

I wonder if the platters are the rusty color or the shiny type (don't open it to find out)? When I built my first satellite solar cooker, I only had 3 5.25" platters that were shiny (near the center of the dish). The rest were all 3.5" and 2.5" platters. But it cooked hotdogs in the winter.

There are two ram slots, an internal DIMM and an externally accessible SODIMM. You have swapped both?

You should NOT have to if your card was bios modified to work on mac.

Let's back up a step. You have Mojave installed. You can boot the computer with black screen and log in, then you get the desktop. The first step would be to install OCLP 2.4.1 onto the existing hard drive (don't even connect your USB Sequoia installer yet). OCLP should identify your...