I'm worried that my method won't be strong enough to deal with daily wear and tear on the more used ports such as USB.Īttempted to take apart my PSU and fabricate casing with similar dimensions to the G5 PSU case as I don't have an original, however since removing the HDD + Optical drive shelf I have realised that I can fit a standard ATX PSU where the HDD bay used to sit.
APPLE G5 CASE REPURPOSE SERIES
I don't have the board and was planning on using a series of 25cm extender cables for the USB, Firewire etc etc. Massive fan of what you're doing with the I/O board, such a good way of going about it.
APPLE G5 CASE REPURPOSE MOD
This is the only mod that goes against my "stock exterior" look. Here's a digital mockup of my plans for custom front mounted LEDs. Stay tuned to see it done/mounted!Īnd one last preview. Here's a bracket I've designed that will mount the PSU down while holding the connector up at the same time. Moving forward, since I've decided to keep my PSU in the original housing I'm making a small extension cord to the back of the case. if worse comes to worse I'll probably just desolder ALL of the pcb mount jacks and resolder onto a blank board
The bad news is it may take a lot of effort to figure where the short actually is. somewhere down the lines something must be crossing. I believe it is from the logicboard hacksaw job. I'm getting some shorting between the usb pins while testing for continuity. Used a 10-pin connector for the two USB ports.
APPLE G5 CASE REPURPOSE MAC
My Power Mac G5 has been modified from its stock state with a 120GB OWC Mercury 3G solid state drive, a 1.5 TB Western Digital drive, 10 GB of RAM, and a GeForce 7800GT video card.I hope you get that PSU issue sorted out, i'll see if i can do some digging to help you out.īut as for my own PSU mod. Welcome to G5Center, a space to exploring tips, ideas, and resources to get the most out of our ancient Power Mac G5s.
Nathan Categories News Tags airport express Post navigation Have you seen any other leads to expand the usage of this aging tech? Do you still use Airport Routers for other use cases (like Airplay 2)? I did find that some work had been done to potentially get ssh working on these Airport devices, opening up the possibility of doing more with them, but it looks like that work is incomplete or didn’t lead to anything useful: SmallNetBuilder did some benchmarking of the last Extreme released – it doesn’t fare that well. Unfortunately, the AirPort Extreme, despite having gigabit ports, can’t handle that much speed. My internal network is gigabit, and my FIOS internet connection is gigabit too. There are some downsides to this, of course. I can easily use it share files between my G5 and other Macs. Yes, there are much speedier options out there, but if you have one laying around, it’s kind of a cool way to repurpose some old tech. On the other hand, the AirPort Extreme makes a very simple Mac friendly file server with a USB hard drive plugged in. So, while it was set up and available, I didn’t use it much. That gets saturated quickly, and the G4’s processor probably doesn’t help either. I have used a Mac Mini G4 as a quasi-network share, but the G4 has only a 10/100 ethernet port. I was reluctant to retire it because it just works, but it was time to let go. It’s still usable, for sure, but newer routers, for far less money, do a better job of sustaining throughput and casting a powerful wifi signal. I used it for a few years as my main router, but as technology changes and devices have more processing power, the Extreme couldn’t keep up. Buried at the bottom of one of my bits and parts bins, I have a 5th generation AirPort Extreme.
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