- Joined
- Jul 29, 2014
- Messages
- 13
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte GA-G41M-Combo
- CPU
- Q9500
- Graphics
- GT 210
- Mac
- Classic Mac
- Mobile Phone
Hi all,
this may not be the most sophisticated mod, as I've seen some great work in this forum so far, its merely a budget project for the sake of tinkering around.
I just wanted to post mine to say thank you to the many helpful posts and guides here, and in the first place for the initial idea when I came across this site.
I'm using Macs for years, and as I'm always up for a little challenge, I made my first experience with Hackintosh in 2009, when buying a Dell Mini 10v and installing Leopard on it. In the meantime it runs Linux again.
Some weeks ago, a friend brought 3 Powermacs (a G3 b/w and two Quicksilvers) from the office, which she had saved from the garbage press. One of the QS was dead, but I thought it would be a shame to throw it away. By accident I stumbled in here, and so I decided to give it a try. As I do not really need another PC, I looked for some equipment that is not quite brand new, but would do the job:
GIGABYTE - GA-G41M-Combo - (rev. 1.3)
Core2 Quad Q9400
8GB DDR3 RAM Kingston (1333MHz)
ASUS EN210 Silent DI 1GD3/V2 1024MB DDR3 64bit PCI (choose that because its fanless)
PSU Corsair CX430
SanDisk SSD 256GB (which I already owned)
For WIFI I use an Edimax USB dongle right now, but this will be changed to an Atheros AR5BXB112 from an iMac I found on ebay, because I want to have the native OS support. I use a D-Link DBT-120 for Bluetooth. Both USB devices were also already owned.
Of course I converted the power switch like shown by minihack:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/powermac-g4/50729-g4-quicksilver-switch.html
I have Mavericks running on the machine, it works well and so far, everything seems to work fine. Had some troubles with the GPU first, so I did the install using the mobo internal VGA port and setting up the ASUS 210 card later, using the DSDT from here:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/hdmi-audi...s-hdmi-audio-asus-nvidia-geforce-210-a-2.html
Next steps to do:
Make a backplate that fits (just a simple cutout in the moment)
Install a more quiet CPU fan ;-)
Install iMac WIFI card with internal antennas (I don't want to have an appendix hanging form the tail of the PC
)
Maybe install a slot-in DVD drive (I don't need one, but maybe I'll sell this PC to build the next one ...)
Install linux additional to OS X
this may not be the most sophisticated mod, as I've seen some great work in this forum so far, its merely a budget project for the sake of tinkering around.
I just wanted to post mine to say thank you to the many helpful posts and guides here, and in the first place for the initial idea when I came across this site.
I'm using Macs for years, and as I'm always up for a little challenge, I made my first experience with Hackintosh in 2009, when buying a Dell Mini 10v and installing Leopard on it. In the meantime it runs Linux again.
Some weeks ago, a friend brought 3 Powermacs (a G3 b/w and two Quicksilvers) from the office, which she had saved from the garbage press. One of the QS was dead, but I thought it would be a shame to throw it away. By accident I stumbled in here, and so I decided to give it a try. As I do not really need another PC, I looked for some equipment that is not quite brand new, but would do the job:
GIGABYTE - GA-G41M-Combo - (rev. 1.3)
Core2 Quad Q9400
8GB DDR3 RAM Kingston (1333MHz)
ASUS EN210 Silent DI 1GD3/V2 1024MB DDR3 64bit PCI (choose that because its fanless)
PSU Corsair CX430
SanDisk SSD 256GB (which I already owned)
For WIFI I use an Edimax USB dongle right now, but this will be changed to an Atheros AR5BXB112 from an iMac I found on ebay, because I want to have the native OS support. I use a D-Link DBT-120 for Bluetooth. Both USB devices were also already owned.
Of course I converted the power switch like shown by minihack:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/powermac-g4/50729-g4-quicksilver-switch.html
I have Mavericks running on the machine, it works well and so far, everything seems to work fine. Had some troubles with the GPU first, so I did the install using the mobo internal VGA port and setting up the ASUS 210 card later, using the DSDT from here:
http://www.tonymacx86.com/hdmi-audi...s-hdmi-audio-asus-nvidia-geforce-210-a-2.html
Next steps to do:
Make a backplate that fits (just a simple cutout in the moment)
Install a more quiet CPU fan ;-)
Install iMac WIFI card with internal antennas (I don't want to have an appendix hanging form the tail of the PC
)Maybe install a slot-in DVD drive (I don't need one, but maybe I'll sell this PC to build the next one ...)
Install linux additional to OS X
