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I used the existing drive bay power harness and just put a molex connector on it to connect to the (almost) standard power supply:
I replaced the DVD drive with a SATA unit so that it would connect to my new gigabyte motherboard. I have installed OSX mountain lion..... WHAT A PAIN!!!! It took days of googling and I was using Moarfish's "Golden Build" so it should have been simple. I wanted to install Snow Leopard but I used an Ivy Bridge CPU so Snow Leopard was a no-go. Then I discovered that the Core i5 I chose had HD2500 graphics built in, which is not supported in lion/ML Luckily I had an FX380 graphics card lying round so I installed it, it works well. It is a low profile type though so I am ordering a new backplate which should fit it (hopefully). I still couldn't boot unless in safe mode, until a very helpful soul pointed out an issue with 10.8.2's ACPI kext then............BOOM! I'm in full blown hack-attack-a-mac heaven.
I replaced the DVD drive with a SATA unit so that it would connect to my new gigabyte motherboard. I have installed OSX mountain lion..... WHAT A PAIN!!!! It took days of googling and I was using Moarfish's "Golden Build" so it should have been simple. I wanted to install Snow Leopard but I used an Ivy Bridge CPU so Snow Leopard was a no-go. Then I discovered that the Core i5 I chose had HD2500 graphics built in, which is not supported in lion/ML Luckily I had an FX380 graphics card lying round so I installed it, it works well. It is a low profile type though so I am ordering a new backplate which should fit it (hopefully). I still couldn't boot unless in safe mode, until a very helpful soul pointed out an issue with 10.8.2's ACPI kext then............BOOM! I'm in full blown hack-attack-a-mac heaven.