my Mod g4 Case

[carloss]

Hi Everyone,
I am new here in this forum. I am Brazilian and I don't speak english very well, so please, sorry for some mistakes on my writing.

I am with a Mod project to a Case of G4 and my Hackintosh.


First of all, I took out all of the plastic parts of the case, and the screws of the original G4's motherboard.



I made some measurements of the PC that I want to put in this case.

My motherboard has a very good size, and 4 slots are aligned with 4 exits in the back of the original case.



This is a small simulation I made in photoshop, just to have a visual of how the panel would appear after cutting the back.


With all of this exposed, I have a great and unique problem.


The RAM memory is pointed to the place of the DVD drive, and when I close the machine, it touches the drive.

I would like to know if anybody knows or have any idea of how to solve this problem.

And I am grateful for any help someone could give.
Thanx!

Carlos

My Hackintosh
This currently running 10.5.1 Leo + EFi 8.0

My configuration is:
Motherboard ECS Elitegroup 945G-M3
processor Intel 3 Ghz HT 800
RAM 2 GB Kingston DDR2 667
HD SATAII 250GB
Gforce Nvidia 7300GT 256.

[aquamac]

Hi Carlos,

Your English is fine, welcome to aquamac forums.

Have a look at Ritalins project here (he is a mod here):



He used a laptop DVD drive. This is one of the few options you have, other than selecting a board that you know will fit in the first place, there are only a few.

Click Here

[carloss]

Thanx Aquamac.

the Job at Ritalins' is good.

but here in brazil DVD-RW drives for laptops are very expensive.

I would really appreciate another option, if you know some.

Also, I cannot switch my motherboard now.


I wanna try to create something not imagined yet.

Or find something that someone already did, but maintaining the original drive in place.


Or maybe something magic , LOL

thanx again

[ritalin]

Hi Carloss,

Have you considered not having an internal DVD? You could hook up an external DVD via USB. Personally I don't use the DVD on my machine that often. You could use the space left by the absence of the DVD to fit front mounted USB/Firewire ports. Not having the internal DVD will also help to keep the machine cool.

[carloss]

Hi ritalin

Yes, I have thought about it too.
But I am leaving it as a last option, if there is no other way.


I thought about reversing the front panel and the metallic parts of it upside down.


As in this picture that I made as a simulation.



Do you think it's gonna work?


Do you know how do I remove the ink of the plastic sides to make it transparent?

thanx

[B B]

Hello carloss,

This has already been done by different people. I found back a discussion where three mods are being refered :

forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=33891

enjoy.

[carloss]

Ok, this case is an example of quicksilver, my not, the cases are a
Little different.

thanx bb

[reddrag0n]

I knew i saw that idea before....
located here

[carloss]

ok reddrag0n

but, my case is G4 400 griz, no quicksilver.

thanx

[reddrag0n]

Yes i know your mod is with a graphite case, but i knew i saw the mod where someone turned the face upside down in order to get the cd rom to how they wanted.

[B B]

As reddrag0n said, the idea is to show it is possible to turn down the front panel and tha'ts what you need .