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Mac OS 9 Discussion => Hardware => Topic started by: lokki on March 28, 2014, 03:57:01 AM

Title: atx power supply in mdd
Post by: lokki on March 28, 2014, 03:57:01 AM
hey guys,

probably you are all aware of this, but it is really easy to use a standard tax power supply for your mdd! just follow this post and you will be all set:

http://idecker.blogspot.ch/2012/02/standard-atx-power-supply-in-powermac.html

the only downside is that you loose support for adc because of the missing 28v

the upside for me is that my atx power supply is dead silent :-)
Title: Re: atx power supply in mdd
Post by: supernova777 on September 23, 2014, 05:19:28 PM
it would be nice to try one of these mini-itx psus to put "directly in same place" as the old mdd psu
http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817338081

400 WATTS! SO TINY!
Title: Re: atx power supply in mdd
Post by: Protools5LEGuy on September 23, 2014, 06:40:16 PM
[youtube]wEzbl3eJIro[/youtube]
[youtube]HN09R-m4UO8[/youtube]
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Also, from the laserhive for all those G4 with motherboard/cpu/psu broken a conversion to the box to be mATX, for those REALLY dead powermacs that do not worth repairing
[youtube]tsLqOz5ZAnw[/youtube]

A cool case for a x86 machine, don't you think?
Title: Re: atx power supply in mdd
Post by: Protools5LEGuy on September 23, 2014, 06:50:39 PM
There is a 16 June 2014 update on http://atxg4.com/mdd.html (http://atxg4.com/mdd.html)
He is accepting orders, I guess.
He is making them really pro!
(http://atxg4.com/images/mirror-adapter2.jpg)

No more dead MDDs due to the PSU.
Title: Re: atx power supply in mdd
Post by: supernova777 on September 24, 2014, 06:24:47 AM
wow! great post dude!!
and double wow to the atx g4 guy i thought he had croaked :D
i emailed him before and he didnt respond at all
diehard said the same thing that he got no response from him
if anyone had gotten emailed back from him please let us know!
i still question the reliability of this guy
Title: Re: atx power supply in mdd
Post by: blemk on December 23, 2014, 01:26:50 AM
Time to combine threads? ;)  http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?topic=1879.0

Anyway, I ordered one for a MDD. Great work. BTW, would skip mini itx and look at micro atx. No case cutting needed and can be far smaller then mini itx given current day options/offerings in micro atx power supplies.
Title: Re: atx power supply in mdd
Post by: Metrophage on December 23, 2014, 02:01:47 AM
What I did was just buy an ATX extension cable. Then I removed the molex pins from the connectors and put them where I needed them. It was a fairly quick and easy job.
Title: Re: atx power supply in mdd
Post by: blemk on December 23, 2014, 07:31:17 PM
Powerfull (for micro atx, 450 watt) power supply in my setup (just posted these images in thread about h20 cooling). Micro ATX has a great fit in this case.

Edit.. Image to big to image embed and be viewable for most.. Hyper link instead. http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2027.0;attach=1666;image (http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=2027.0;attach=1666;image)