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The screws that hold the back onto a PC-Clone case seem to be the ones. But regular PC standoffs are too small. Interestingly enough when I drilled a hole big enough for the Apple Motherboard Positioning Post on the side, then any of the Apple Standoffs that I could find are excellent to hold...

I just realized while looking at the cardboard that I used to determine where the Apple standoffs were that if MountainMods would have drilled the two holes for the Apple placement standoffs then I'd be done... Since we are probably their only/usual customer for these $120.00 Motherboard Trays...

So I still haven't figured out what I want, but that's not necessarily a "bad" thing. I've messed with the Mac-mini and taken out the exotic Multiplexed SATA to Firewire connection and replaced it with the "e-sata USB Combo hub" and that is working fairly well. Good enough that the four...

How about inside an Original Macintosh or a Mac II? It would be trivial to put one of the Mac-Mini-Hackintoshes inside the Macintosh case, but it wouldn't be any fun without a screen in place of the Cathode-Ray tube. There must be something out there?

Well, if you really haven't decided, let me throw in some confusion since you are "essentially" making the machine I would be making if I hadn't gotten old and unemployed. Take another look at my Mac-Mini. Now look at this: http://www.macmall.com/p/7032217 And follow this link to the...

It almost seems that it is time for me to rethink what I've done, but I can't find enough information to be sure. Damn! I did it again. SOS got me again. (i.e. Shiny Object Syndrome) I have been working for the last couple of weeks to try to make a Hackintosh in one of my G5 PowerMac...

At this point you might want to go back to Mountain Mods to buy the side panels they sell. (let me find my links and I'll modify this post to show you what I mean. This is my Mac Mini with its nine and a half Terabytes attached. There is a stack of five hard drive trays joined together by...

This particular build is a year old so naturally things have changed. I have a handfull of cables that I bought for less than a fiver from Amazon. The SATA drive cables have eight connectors in a cable about sixteen inches long. I also have a bunch of power cables from Amazon that have nine...

Sorry, I have changed the DVD players in the past while the G5 was still working properly. The question I was trying to ask is which brand of DVD player has a tray without its own door (on the front of the tray) that works properly with OSX. Last time I did it I ended up with a DVD player that...

So I have all the usual questions, but I'll start with two. I rather like my old G5 and so what I am doing to it is merely a repair since the Apple motherboard failed and the Apple store wanted a humongous amount to replace it. While I am inside I'd like to upgrade the DVD drive. Does...

The link is broken and I get into a loop back to here.

And here it is. 6 inches long so they can be put inside the MacPro case facing towards the side that comes off. I suspect you can put a lot of them in there. http://www.amazon.com/KingWin-Multi-Fun ... =KF-253-BK Here's the unit for four 2.5 inch drives...

OK, so I've finally come to ask for help. I've done one Hackintosh, but it hasn't been stable enough for me. So I want to do another concentrating on "beauty" and "serenity." That means stability. I have two g5 PowerMacs that I bought over the last few years and they have developed the...

I have the same configuration, i.e. Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P Realtek ALC889a EV3A GeForce 9800 Realtek RTL8111C PCIe Gigabit Ethernet Controllers. The original "Lifehacker" machine. You can get the two monitors working by downloading the Retail_256.02.25flv1.dmg from the NVIDIA site and merely...