In total the changeover took about 2 hours. Having removed everything, switch over the psu and put everything back – simple. Unfortunately the psu is so awkwardly positioned and large that the only way to get it out was to take out everything including the motherboard. At first I tried to remove things that looked as if they would be in the way, leaving a few parts behind. I found a few discrepancies but it gives you a basic idea on how to remove things. Get hold of a guide to taking apart the mac, such as this one. But if you’re up for a bit of a challenge you can’t do too much damage, read on. My advice would probably be this too, it isn’t for the faint hearted or impatient. I’m definitely not an expert with mac hardware and I don’t have special tools for taking apart a computer – this scared me – because everybody I spoke to or every article I read said not to change the psu yourself and to take it to a professional. We ended up paying £150-£200 for the psu, a little on the expensive side but desperate times call for desperate measures. None of the local apple stores did and most companies sounded confused, as if I was asking a silly question. Phoning around we found one supplier with a spare powermac psu in stock. Needless to say he needed the server back up asap. I’m guessing the extra load of the hard drive took it over the edge.
We’d recently set-up a remote backup solution for him and installed an extra internal hard drive in the powermac for local backup. Luckily Apple did acknowledge the problem and has extended the warranty on the power supply, which you can claim here: Power Mac G5 Repair Extension Program for Power Supply IssuesĪ relatively new customer phoned us up last week in a panic, claiming his server (the powermac) had stopped working and wouldn’t even switch on. When I was reading around on the subject I read the failure rate is around 11%, I can’t remember the exact figure but hopefully I’ll find it again later.
With multiple checks of my measurements and very minimal clearances (nothing is touching), I think I can get a pair of EK-CoolStream WE 360*180mm radiators in the case with 25mm Silverstone AP181's.If the PSU on you’re powermac g5 has gone, or you think it may have, you aren’t the only one ( see macintouch forums).
Ryzen Threadripper 1950x - Asus ROG X399-E Gaming - 2 x GTX 1080 8Gb (MSI Aero + EVGA SC) - Corsair Vengeance LED 32gb 3200mhz - 480gb OWC SSD - (more SSD's to follow both M.2 and 2.5", possibly more GPU's depending on needs)Īnd then last week I had a what if moment and opened SketchUp: So far I have modded a Power Mac G5 with a Lian-Li PC60 motherboard tray and will be slowly building it up. I have water-cooled before, back in 2007 so I am keen to do this again. I have recently got back into building my own workstation for colour grading/ film finishing. Hiya, first post here, long time lurker and all!
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