Had to dig this one out the hackintosh archives so apologies for the lack of detail. Way back in December 2009 I had a few bits lying around the studio and most importantly some free time – which is a rare thing. Decided to have a go at building some kind of Hack Pro variant. Adapted a dead G4 Quicksilver that will only take a mATX board so good for a first time mod and cheap too. All in all a great little project that will teach you a bit about Unix commands and a whole lot about how OS X works. Used a custom Boot-132 disc and then altered some kexts that the particular ASUS mobo needed.

Have lost the build jpegs but here are some of the finished piece. Inspired by the Aquamac blog.

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Finally managed to get this uploaded. Probably the most asked hardware query for working an Apple Powermac G5 case into something PC friendly. If you’ve never stripped out a Mac it can be strange and unfamiliar territory. As beautiful as the hardware is, it is nearly all proprietary assembly inside and out. There are a few exceptions with the odd bit of cabling, connector or hard drive but they have never ever been designed to house standard PC parts. If you decide to mod a Powermac for perhaps a hackintosh project you will very soon be asking yourself -

…”How the hell do I get the upper shelf out to make the most of that space?”….

It’s really not that hard and the beauty is once the shelf is removed a standard ATX PSU can slot in there perfectly. This makes the whole system a little top heavy but you can counterbalance by fixing up some kind of drive cage near the base of your case. I found the weight of 2 x 3.5″ drives balanced out fine. The photos are from an old dead dual 2Ghz machine but the process works on all G5 cases. Continue reading →