Another Powermac saved from the crusher...
Sorry in advance for the long winded post,
but always get a thrill out of rescuing old, unwanted treasures
and being able to give them a new lease on life...
A good friend of mine wanted to get rid of his old 2003 Dual 2.0Ghz Powermac and 23" Acrylic Cinema.
He said if I didn't want it, he was just going to throw everything away
since "it was too old and didn't work" anymore.
It all came with the original boxes/inserts for everything.
Everything was all pretty filthy (Dust, pet hair and unidentifiable food all over the keyboard,
inside of the Mac and the monitor).
The HDD/Superdrive were DOA and the fans were acting very wonky.
Not so bad...
I disassembled and cleaned all the components,
and gave the boards and connections a light bath and cleaning with de-oxit
and cleaned all the dust off everything.
Turns out dust is a pretty good preservative...because beneath all the filth was some very minty looking kit.
Brought the G5 in to my local authorized repair center to get the fans re-calibrated
which is required after cleaning and removing the CPU's.
He also replaced the superdrive with a used one that was laying around. (Total cost $110.00)
Had 8GB of old crucial ram and a spare 2TB Caviar HDD layin' around
layin' so I guess you could call those free at this point.
(The HD is partitioned 500GB/1.3TB)
Using the old girl as a music server and for misc backups networked to
a 2010 6-core MP workstation.
I'm sure the workflow on the MacPro will improve now that 4TB of external music files, Itunes,
the Apogee Duet and PureMusic software have been taken out the CPU /ram loop.
Everything on the G5 is working flawlessly including music, mail, internet
(was able to transfer all bookmarks/preferences from MP's FireFox over to the PPC Tenfourfox browser).
Been running it all weekend and she's running cool as cucumber...
Sorry in advance for the long winded post,
but always get a thrill out of rescuing old, unwanted treasures
and being able to give them a new lease on life...
A good friend of mine wanted to get rid of his old 2003 Dual 2.0Ghz Powermac and 23" Acrylic Cinema.
He said if I didn't want it, he was just going to throw everything away
since "it was too old and didn't work" anymore.
It all came with the original boxes/inserts for everything.
Everything was all pretty filthy (Dust, pet hair and unidentifiable food all over the keyboard,
inside of the Mac and the monitor).
The HDD/Superdrive were DOA and the fans were acting very wonky.
Not so bad...
I disassembled and cleaned all the components,
and gave the boards and connections a light bath and cleaning with de-oxit
and cleaned all the dust off everything.
Turns out dust is a pretty good preservative...because beneath all the filth was some very minty looking kit.
Brought the G5 in to my local authorized repair center to get the fans re-calibrated
which is required after cleaning and removing the CPU's.
He also replaced the superdrive with a used one that was laying around. (Total cost $110.00)
Had 8GB of old crucial ram and a spare 2TB Caviar HDD layin' around
layin' so I guess you could call those free at this point.
(The HD is partitioned 500GB/1.3TB)
Using the old girl as a music server and for misc backups networked to
a 2010 6-core MP workstation.
I'm sure the workflow on the MacPro will improve now that 4TB of external music files, Itunes,
the Apogee Duet and PureMusic software have been taken out the CPU /ram loop.
Everything on the G5 is working flawlessly including music, mail, internet
(was able to transfer all bookmarks/preferences from MP's FireFox over to the PPC Tenfourfox browser).
Been running it all weekend and she's running cool as cucumber...
