{"id":873,"date":"2006-08-09T21:53:19","date_gmt":"2006-08-09T21:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/?p=873"},"modified":"2025-03-09T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T16:38:10","slug":"give-me-more-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/uncategorized\/give-me-more-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Give me more POWER!!!!!!!!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4577\/3234\/1600\/kieran_at_work.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/4577\/3234\/320\/kieran_at_work.0.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I nearly gave up trying to figure out what was wrong with my computer. Even Kieran had a go at looking to see what he could find (see picture &#8211; YES THE POWER&nbsp;<strong><em>WAS<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;SWITCHED OFF!!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got Windows installed earlier, but everytime I started it up, the computer would shut down on me before I could do anything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It then occured to me &#8211; I&#8217;ve just added a new 200Gb drive, and recently I&#8217;ve been getting a message saying that not enough power was getting through to my GeForce 6600GT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, I disconnected the DVD drive and started the computer&#8230; It worked fine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I then reconnected the DVD drive and restarted the computer &#8211; it crashed on me again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I disconnected one of my hard-drives and restarted &#8211; it worked fine without crashing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ITS THE BLOODY PSU &#8211; Obviously it&#8217;s not powerful enough. Its only a 350w PSU, so I&#8217;ve opted for a 550W PSU from&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.novatech.co.uk\/\">Novatech<\/a>. That should arrive Friday hopefully. In the meantime after disconnecting the internal DVD drive, I&#8217;m currently using my Laptops DVD drive as a shared network drive which I can access wirelessly from my desktop PC &#8211; ingenious!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I nearly gave up trying to figure out what was wrong with my computer. Even Kieran &hellip; <a title=\"Give me more POWER!!!!!!!!!!!\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/uncategorized\/give-me-more-power\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Give me more POWER!!!!!!!!!!!<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":874,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.captains-blog.co.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}