Power mac g5 case disassembly
- #POWER MAC G5 CASE DISASSEMBLY HOW TO#
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- #POWER MAC G5 CASE DISASSEMBLY MOD#
- #POWER MAC G5 CASE DISASSEMBLY DRIVER#
- #POWER MAC G5 CASE DISASSEMBLY MODS#
After that, one CPU can come out, giving you access to the other 4th screw. Note that you only have to remove 1 hex screw in the middle of the heatsinks. After it's loose, and the other 3 are out, you can remove one of the CPUs.
#POWER MAC G5 CASE DISASSEMBLY DRIVER#
(which isn't much, but every mm helps.) The screw driver didn't fit perfectly in the hex screw, but if I pressed down hard enough, I was able to get enough grip to loosen the screw. I had to bend the two heatsinks apart as far as they would go. Then I finally found a really tiny screwdriver that was really long and had a fairly narrow handle. (I dunno if they even make them) Then I tried using needle nose pliers and holding a regular 3/32 allen wrench down there. Getting the fourth screw out (the one between the heatsinks, was a BITCH!! The allen wrench needs to be at around 6in long to get down there. Getting the first 3 screws out was challenging. ($5 down the drain) I suspect the hex screw may be metric. (but it worked) A 7/64 hex wrench was too big. I used a 3/32 hex wrench, but that was a bit too small. In order to remove the heatsinks, you need to loosen (not remove) 4 hex screws for each CPU (8 total) Three are at the corners of the heatsink and the fourth is the the hole that the heatsinks make. AFAIK, this is only documented with pics right here. Then, the G5 cover easily slides to the right and comes off. Instead of squeezing the plastic through the hole, I decided to just dremel the top of the plastic piece off. Basically, the plastic piece needs to go to the other side of the metal. The fourth pic shows the cover finally off. (see second pic) The 3rd pic shows where the plastic piece is relative to the rest of the case. It pointed me to this plastic piece that secured the G5 cover to the case. Finally, I found my answer in a comment of a small blog. Nobody had ever taken apart the same Mac as I did and recorded it. I mean I literally spent a few hours on two different days trying to get that damn piece out! And there is ZERO info about this anywhere on the internet.
#POWER MAC G5 CASE DISASSEMBLY HOW TO#
I could not figure out how to get it out. (RAM, HDD, Airport Extreme)Īfter about fifteen minutes, I've gotten the easy stuff out. Note that my school had already taken most user serviceable parts.
The third pic is the case without the airflow guide. It has a plastic cover that serves as an airflow guide. So with that in mind, I came up with these parts. First, I had a pump and 240mm rad left over from when I watercooled my main computer and I wanted to reuse these parts. I want to watercool this PC for two reasons. This computer definately needed a quad core CPU because I'm going to be editing video on it and video encoding is extremely parallel. And I don't really have a budget for this mod, but I'm paying for most of it, so the cheaper, the better. I want this computer to be mistaken for a regular Mac.
#POWER MAC G5 CASE DISASSEMBLY MODS#
As cool as a window would be, no external mods for this one. So no external mods beyond what's necessary. The second requirement means that I don't want to touch the exterior of the case. And with that, I started researching and planning out this mod. So the primary usage of this computer would be video editing.
#POWER MAC G5 CASE DISASSEMBLY MOD#
So then it hit me that I could use the computer from this mod at school for the class. I wasn't really looking forward to video editing on a dual 2GHz G5 in the 'Mac Lab'. Coincidentally, I'm going to be taking a self-study class on video editing next year. So right before school let out, I asked if I could have it because it wasn't being used. So wouldn't it be cool to put a regular computer in the Mac case? After a bit of searching, I found many other cases (pun lol ) of this mod.
#POWER MAC G5 CASE DISASSEMBLY INSTALL#
Well, in order to install XP, you'd need a regular (x86) system in there. He said that it would be really funny to install XP on one of the Macs so when someone turned it on, it'd be Windows instead of Mac OS. The idea to put a PC inside of the Mac case came from a joke between me and the head computer admin at my school. I asked why that was and I found out that it was apparently broken. So I saw this Mac G5 in my school's 'Mac Lab' that wasn't connected to anything. This thread will be dedicated to documenting my progress as I move through this project. Putting PC components inside of an Apple G5 case.