justaviet Posted October 18, 2009 Share Posted October 18, 2009 I've been working on my G5 Hackintosh case mod for a while and I finally got some of the work done. I'm going for the purest approach I can think of. Here's a little sneak preview of my work so far. I put an 650 Watt ATX PSU into the G5 PSU casing. I cut a G5 motherboard and placed a mATX board in place with some hot glue haha. Now the soldering begins... hopefully everything works out the first try. I will be using all original fans and many of the original case parts. I'll update again probably in a week since this computer resides at my parents home and I just don't have time or space at my duplex to work on it. College is too time consuming ;; Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192824-justaviets-g5-hackintosh/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
stellarola Posted October 19, 2009 Share Posted October 19, 2009 I've been working on my G5 Hackintosh case mod for a while and I finally got some of the work done. I'm going for the purest approach I can think of. Here's a little sneak preview of my work so far. I put an 650 Watt ATX PSU into the G5 PSU casing. I cut a G5 motherboard and placed a mATX board in place with some hot glue haha. Now the soldering begins... hopefully everything works out the first try. I will be using all original fans and many of the original case parts. I'll update again probably in a week since this computer resides at my parents home and I just don't have time or space at my duplex to work on it. College is too time consuming ;; Wow, that is the craziest G5 mod I've ever seen. I would have never thought of doing it like that. Very original, sir. -Stell Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192824-justaviets-g5-hackintosh/#findComment-1303169 Share on other sites More sharing options...
glay78 Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 I'll be glueing to this thread, no mods I've ever seen is like this. I loved it! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192824-justaviets-g5-hackintosh/#findComment-1304580 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nerdalertdk Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Wow Thats "Thinking Different" Love the mod, cant what to see it finished Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192824-justaviets-g5-hackintosh/#findComment-1304762 Share on other sites More sharing options...
blugray Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 wow,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,great!!! I wish to see the results. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192824-justaviets-g5-hackintosh/#findComment-1304837 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justaviet Posted October 20, 2009 Author Share Posted October 20, 2009 Thank you for the nice comments :] At the moment, I'm waiting for a few new parts to come in before I continue this project. I'm hoping to have a full functioning rear port with bluetooth, wifi, and even the modem. I'm also looking into incorporating a sound module to produce the apple start up chime when the power button is pressed. The final specs should be somewhere around this: Q8200 2.33GHz 8GB 1066 DDR2 9800 GTX+ 2x 1TB 7200 rpm Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192824-justaviets-g5-hackintosh/#findComment-1304918 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stellarola Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Thank you for the nice comments :] At the moment, I'm waiting for a few new parts to come in before I continue this project. I'm hoping to have a full functioning rear port with bluetooth, wifi, and even the modem. I'm also looking into incorporating a sound module to produce the apple start up chime when the power button is pressed. The final specs should be somewhere around this: Q8200 2.33GHz 8GB 1066 DDR2 9800 GTX+ 2x 1TB 7200 rpm Hey justaviet, I was thinking the same thing as well for the start up chime a while ago. It really wouldn't be that hard to wire a sound module up to the power button. I figured you could hack one of those voice recorder reminder things. The ones they sell in infomercials. Later, -Stell Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192824-justaviets-g5-hackintosh/#findComment-1305083 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justaviet Posted October 20, 2009 Author Share Posted October 20, 2009 Stell, I've found several cheap sound modules so it's definitely a possibility. One thing that really interest me though is connecting it to the internal speaker which is on one of the original fans and or the audio out to the speakers. I don't know where the sound comes from yet, but after I find out, I'll probably find a way to amplify the signal and send it through one of those 2 sources. I'm definitely sure we can make something work without too much difficulty. -Justaviet Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192824-justaviets-g5-hackintosh/#findComment-1305134 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justaviet Posted November 1, 2009 Author Share Posted November 1, 2009 So I finally got some time to work on the G5 a little. At this point, everything I've been doing to it is getting sloppier ;; I'm seriously hoping that the motherboard still works at this point, seeing that I don't have a anti-electrostatic bracelet or didn't bridged any of the components while soldering. This update: -wired the front ports (thank you for the pin out diagrams) -ethernet port -toslink in -modem -audio in -audio out Things left to do: -wire all case fans -wireless n card (pending shipping) -bluetooth (pending shipping) -internal speaker -1394b (need to order pci-e firewire card since I don't have enough internal firewire bus) The rest of the installation is just standard procedures with minor modifications to the G5 pci-divider to clear the north bridge and ram. Hopefully I'll be able to finish up all the soldering next weekend and gather enough money to order the CPU, heat sink, graphics card, RAM, hard drives, and the superdrive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192824-justaviets-g5-hackintosh/#findComment-1317127 Share on other sites More sharing options...
TorqueX86 Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 Wonderful! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192824-justaviets-g5-hackintosh/#findComment-1317521 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirloui Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 Very impressive, congratulations. I hope you trust your motherboard Anyhow, you one-upped most (everyone actually, after it's a question of taste and strategy ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192824-justaviets-g5-hackintosh/#findComment-1317670 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justaviet Posted November 2, 2009 Author Share Posted November 2, 2009 Thanks torque and pirloui! If this motherboard fails then I'll just order another one since I have a second G5 motherboard I can hack up. I would definitely take more time to get everything done neater though, but hopefully that doesn't happen. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192824-justaviets-g5-hackintosh/#findComment-1317857 Share on other sites More sharing options...
amigafred91 Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 A friend send this topic. My first reaction was.. some glue ? wht's stupid idea. In fact, it was a very good idea, exept the day if you whant to change the motherboard (pc). Keep all the connectors, solder under the pc card, you think different, and it a pure good idea. Continue in this way... Send more pics, and i've one question : Why don't you use some connectors between the (G5 LogicBoard) and the (PC MotherBoard), and fix the (PC motherboard) with some 'racks' adaptator. Can you give all the pinout of the connectors you have soldered ? A very good job man. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192824-justaviets-g5-hackintosh/#findComment-1318789 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justaviet Posted November 3, 2009 Author Share Posted November 3, 2009 I understood that by setting the motherboard in with glue would make it semi-permanent, but I didn't really plan on changing it much once I finish it so it seemed like the best route. The hot-glue can be removed quite easily and another motherboard can be set and soldered in place. Well the only reason why I didn't put connectors between the motherboard and the G5 motherboard is because I didn't see a need to change the motherboard out so the connectors would be an excess step. By rack adapters, do you mean using some kind of clip to hold the PC motherboard to the G5 motherboard? I haven't gotten to test the connections past continuity, but as soon as I plug in the rig and diagnose any problems with the connectors, I'll draft the pin out connections. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192824-justaviets-g5-hackintosh/#findComment-1318906 Share on other sites More sharing options...
amigafred91 Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 Just a very good job Yes, i talk about clip for fixing the M.B. on the G5 L.B. But with the solder, it's better and more easily to glue them Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/192824-justaviets-g5-hackintosh/#findComment-1319617 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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