Recent content by aaantonis

Dear Juan I will get on with this mod later this week. Unfortunately I m facing problems powering my inverter to begin with. I m yet to get to the point of actually feeding a signal to the screen as I dont even have backlight. I don't see any reason why this hdmi breakout board wouldn't work...

Hi there Juan. Unfortunately due to the xdellver case mod taking up a lot of my time and income I haven't made much progress with the imac. I have the exact same nuc like you do, the 5i3ryk, and I faced the same problem. For now, I have installed this female euro plug to the original imac...

The server mod was finally completed with a push pull configuration for the fans. The pull only scheme didn't work. I made an imgur post with everything. Feel free to ask any questions in here! https://imgur.com/a/Kl1Lc Video link here:

Late night update: Moments after I posted the thread above, the server shut down on its own. As you can see from the picture above there are is only a motherboard ambient temperature sensor in the Dell idrac system (Integrated Dell Remote ACcess system). The reported temp was 2-3 degress lower...

I call the project 90% ready. The fan covers from Thelaserhive.com arrived today and at the same time I had the lid waterjet cutted to the exact dimensions. The holes were not equally spread apart on purpose since in between the 1st and 2nd, lie the two lan ports one on top of the other...

Thank you very much Pgh for your reply. I will try your thicker wire recommendations and see what gives. The ground was indeed connected to the psu. What I meant was that mactester57 mentions in a post that the faraday cage should be grounded to the wall outlet, (obviously through the AC filter...

Update no.3 The server now has been turned on and thankfully it works. I was very afraid for shorts as the main chassis has been butchered up real badly in order to (kinda) fit everything as good as I could. One of my main goals was to keep the system running without bios flashing with custom...

Dear all, I m taking this question out of my build thread, so as to reach a larger audience, as it tortures me for a week now. Future builders may probably find a solution to this specific problem more easily instead of searching through threads. During my first build I faced the exact same...

This turns out to be just a tad bit more difficult than I thought. A couple more visits to the blacksmith later, I m still trying to test fit everything. There is so much bare metal that can short this motherand out and send it up in flames that I m taking my time as much as possible, although I...

I finally decided to go with a NUC again. I found an i3 in a reasonably good price and took it. Together with the xserve mod I am working on and which you can read on the "Others" case mod section, I m moving on with this one too. I decided to go with the HDMI breakout board. I installed it...

Hi there everyone, A few weeks ago I answered a local Craigslist ad about an Xserve with dual "550 series Xeons", for 150 euro. I immediately thought that it had to be a 3,1 Xserve and that they probably meant 5500 Nehalem Xeons, that can be officially be upgraded to El Capitan, and the guy...

Dear all, two years ago I have found this website which teased me to start my own Imac G4, NUC project. I invested close to a thousand euro on it and it worked a charm. I had it in my office which is located in the gardens of our company where we have built a small office complex made of wooden...

Thank you Erster, I might have misread the main text from Jberg's illustration for the inverter wire connections.

The iMac is almost ready. Work still to be done: Waiting for USB 3.0 short extension cables and for 802.11ac/Bluetooth 4.0 pcie card to arrive Build pictures will be posted when everything is set and ready Make a carbon copy of the drive to an external hdd before executing the last step on...

Thank you so much!!! I remember seeing that picture somewhere before i got my hands on my g4, and I could no find it now that i needed it.