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HOT G5 TIP! When removing the heat spreader from the G5 daughter-cards, it is held on by two screws and a somewhat sticky and thin thermal pad. Rather than use a tool to pry against the PCB with potential damage (or trying to use the leverage of the heat pipe - Oh NO!), instead use two of the...

Day 14 part 2 Update on the G5 dual 1.8GHz... tore it down so I can have a look at the motherboard for weak solder points. Definitely needs some dusting. Maybe this is why it does not boot? Mismatched CPUs (first clue is the different colored plastic)? Looks like one is original 2003...

Use the highest concentrate of isopropyl alcohol that you can get, like 91%. You can use a toothbrush lightly as well. Then give it plenty of time to dry thoroughly.

Just an FYI, the miniPCIE port does work for other things, like a dual SATA adapter. Running DarkWeb on 10.5.8 XBMC playing movies off the SATA hard drive (with external power source).

Day 14 Quicksilver adventures. 867MHz, 1GB ram. I think the QS has a bad CD-drive... eventually after powered on for a while, the cd ejected and I was presented with a severely scratched free copy retail Leopard. Installed a red board IDE->SATA on the motherboard for the boot SSD, and...

I ran into similar issues this morning, trying to boot os9 off a cloned SSD from Sawtooth into a QuickSilver. For some reason it would not boot os9. I pulled out an original 9.2.2 boot cd and started the QS up, and it only sees the IDE drives, not the drives on the SATA adapater. I am...

Day 13 Every time I go to Free Geek it is like visiting a no-kill shelter. I find something I have to rescue from the landfill by taking it home. Rescue 1: G4 Quicksilver, noisy fan (scraping on the bent cover, or just need replacement.) Chimes, so further work needed. $10 Rescue 2: G5...

Day 12 The wicked witch is dead. Yes, both CPUs leaked. Apparently the coolant Apple chose is both corrosive and conductive. Who made that choice? I don't want to throw any more money at it, I saw a dual G5 2.0GHz at FreeGeek last week, maybe they still have it and I can add that one to my...

Does the forum not have a function that a moderator can email all members to notify them of the poll? I know I get email notifications on threads I watch.

Day 11 I've lost that lovin' feeling... The G5 PSU arrived today. I delayed dusting things off, so in a rush to clean stuff, I broke off a fan blade... I will see how well Bondic holds it together. I was looking at a video on how to install the bluetooth and wifi, because I saw two antenna...

I picked up another gen 1, so I have a dual 2.5 drive cable on order, going to try the two drive option.

A photo of your exact setup would be helpful. If you are using the stock heatsink with a G4, then simply add a slimline fan to it by screwing the fan onto the heat sink, running it off 12v molex power from a hard drive power cable. Example stock G3? Mount a fan on top if you have the...

Yes, those are the instructions I tried, but every time I click on "save" in iWizzard, it just goes back to where it started and does not save any of my changes. I just wiped the whole drive and i will reinstall Tiger and Leopard later.

I can get the partitions created, but the iWizzard does not allow me to change anything on the partitions... I try to change the flags, and hit save, and everything reverts back. I guess I can wipe the whole drive and try MorphOS only, then shrink it and put Tiger and Leopard back on later.

Day 8 Mac Mini Cleanup and exploration. Oh, she's a very dirty girl! Some compressed air cleaned her right up! As mentioned last night, I swapped the mechanical drive for SSD, replaced the optical drive, and upgraded to 1GB of RAM. I then partitioned the SSD for 80GB of Leopard and 40GB...

Yes, the optical drive was faulty. Luckily I had another laying around. I swapped out the spinner drive for solid state, replaced the optical drive, and upgraded it to 1GB of RAM. I could overclock it with the resistors on the bottom of the motherboard, but its not worth it right now.

I made my own 128GB from eBay parts... these work in all my PPC so far (2.5 to 3.5 adapters for the desktops, $4), as well as in the gen 1 Apple TV. 44pin 2.5 IDE to mSATA adapter ($13@) with some refurbished drives Lot of 5 mSATA drives ($40 for 5).

Day 7 This week has been a true PPC joy! Made another trip to FreeGeek Minneapolis. Secured a few more treasures. iSight FireWire, listed as untested, works fine at home, $5 (iChat would not open the camera on PPC, but my FW800->FW400 cable worked on my iMac12,2). Found a Radeon 7000 that...

Day 6 Losing the silicon lottery Attempted some G4 overclocking with jumpers Since the G4-450 is now just laying around, I moved the jumper from R7 to R9, hoping to get it to 500MHz. While that worked and it registered as 500MHz, it had slower benchmark performance compared to when at...