A few more useful sites: https://tim.id.au/laptops/apple/powermac/powermac_g5.pdf
This one includes official Apple “take-apart procedures" http://resale.headgap.com Parts and components, in case you actually are missing something in their catalog. Satisfied customer, no other relation. https://everymac.com/systems/apple/powermac_g5/index-powermac-g5.html https://lowendmac.com/tag/power-mac-g5/ Specifications, benchmarks, etc. Once you get it running, we are headed into winter when electric heaters may be desirable. These two sites: https://www.distributed.net/Main_Page http://tenfourfox.blogspot.com Will give you semi-productive things to do with it; the G5 machines with altivec are pretty good at RC5-72 compared to most CPUs, and TenFourFox is essentially a current web-browser. I’m also not a black-belt goog-fu artist. There is more available. Hope this much is helpful, though. - Mark On Oct 10, 2022, at 11:33 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org<mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote: [EXTERNAL EMAIL] On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 at 08:20, Kevin Parker via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org<mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote: Problem is my GoogleFoo can't find any diagrams, illustrations etc on how the internals are put together What? I am *amazed*. I don't know how you could _not_ find the info. There is loads of it. This is the first hit on "apple powermac g5 disassembly" -- https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Disassembling+Power+Mac+G5+Motherboard/7579 This is the 2nd: https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Power_Mac_G5 It's one of the easiest machines ever to assemble or disassemble and there's tons of info, videos, walkthrough, step by step guides etc. 4 words is not "Google-fu". -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven UK: (+44) 7939-087884 ~ Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053
