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I am not an electrical engineer, nor a professional circuit board repair person, so take it with a grain of salt. In the 40 years of handing all types of electronics with no ESD protection of any kind (I wear socks on carpet a lot), I have only personally experienced one single component...

@epalama1 not sure how far you have gone... just a warning to not go too far on this LCS. If you do NOT have any visible signs of a leak, you may not want to open it. This was my only sign of corrosion, which may be from condensation. My G5 quad does not boot all the way, I can get ASD to...

TL;DR almost double. That was an M.2 drive in a 2.5 sata adpater connected to the dual mPCIE adapter. It really depends on the SATA device. If SSD, almost double. I then tried an mSATA SSD on a SATA adapter. Then I wondered if the mPCIE slot was bootable? swapped drives.... But...

The wifi card slot is mPCIE, which is different than mSATA. They both share the same form factor (like M.2 can be SATA or NVMe), but they are different logically. The reason the dual SATA card works is because of the SATA controller on the board. Mine happens to be the asmedia ASM1061...

I just picked up a G5 Quad and I found this thread on cleaning it.

Day 34. The Challenge is over, but I am still going... Ten bucks is ten bucks. Didn't want to wait for a power cord, so got after it with a utility knife. Close enough... may be a fire hazard. Ok, it powers up, but won't boot a cd all the way, strange memory errors... ASD 2.5.8 bombs...

Days too late Free Geek strikes again! I just grabbed a G5 quad core “project” for $10. The tech said it boots then dies. For $10, I just have to try. Unfortunately it did not come with a power cord... I will have to go check my local Goodwill and big box stores, but likely nobody has...

In case you want to take out that 2nd mortgage, here is a color classic, new in box on eBay.

I just picked up a Sil3114CTU Sata card, have you made any progress?

Thank you so much for posting this challenge, TinkerDifferent! I had a blast and learned a lot. I liberated four PPC machines from the Free Geek in the process while expanding my knowledge and skills on PPC machines.

That would be the trick for you to perform, to see if you can get it to chain load from your menu!

Petter Nordahl-Hagen NT password reset tool?

I have a excel file with 30+ rows of Hackintosh's and another with 30+ rows of real Apple devices, but the collection keeps growing. I was thinking of trying MAMP and OpenWiki, but it seems way too complicated for what I need. I would like all the details like EveryMac.com, so I can compare...

Day 28: Continued modem testing I got the two iMac lamps to connect, one worked at 56K and the other only at 38K (OSX), but both successful. OSX Zterm to OS9 Zterm. OSX 10.4.11 to OSX 10.4.11

Day 27: Local Dial-Up Test I did a few inquiries on some forums looking for a way to test modems locally without a phone line. Yes, there is some basic circuitry you can build to create a simulated phone line, but you won't have dial tone. I did not want to setup a PBX. There are some other...

Success with a one dollar card from the local Free Geek store. Put it into my Sawtooth and it was not recognized under 10.4.11, so booted into OS9 and it showed up as unknown. Correct VendorID, so did the flash. And rebooted in OS9 just to verify post-flash. Booted fine with SSD...

Day 26 FreeGeek bonanza! Well, the $20 dual G5-1.8GHz was gone, so didn't bring that home. But I found a keyboard ($15), another StarTech single IDE->Sata adapter ($5), a PCI 4 port USB card with one port missing ($1), and what was hoping was a compatible IMPOSSIBRU PCI sata card ($1). The...

To me, that looks like epoxy, not crystalized coolant. Way too smooth to be crystalized coolant. This is what mine looked like... The only guides I have seen are for one of the other variants on a non-quad. I have both versions of the non-quad assemblies (dual pump - fat radiator, and...

Day 23 Impossible Cat : Clouded Leopard The pre-release developer build of Snow Leopard works on some PPC machines. With some glitches. It took 3 different downloads before I could get it to boot on my unconfirmed Mac Mini G4. I will have to test on the other 4 working PPC models I have...

Day 22 PPC Towers of Death The 1.8GHz G5 arrived today. It appears to be a V3. I now have a 1.8GHz v1, v2, and v3. Big sad face, no combination created a chime. None of them work together. So that leaves me with 3 empty G5 cases for Hackintosh projects, 2 liquid radiator assemblies to...