{"id":498,"date":"2005-09-18T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-18T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2005\/09\/18\/i-canna-give-you-any-more-power\/"},"modified":"2005-09-18T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-18T15:49:00","slug":"i-canna-give-you-any-more-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/2005\/09\/18\/i-canna-give-you-any-more-power\/","title":{"rendered":"I canna give you any more power!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the past year, the fan in the power supply on my G4 has been making a grinding noise. This week it got loud enough to drive <a href=\"http:\/\/raininva.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">raininva<\/a> to distraction, so she asked me to please fix it. (Frankly, I was sick of listening to it too.) Replacement Apple power supplies run $130 &#8211; $230 on the web, so that was right out. Besides, it was only the fan itself.<\/p>\n<p>I pulled the power supply out, then the fan, and took it to CompUSA. They had a wide variety of fans, but although several were exactly the right size and shape, they had three-pin connectors instead of two-pin, and the amperage ratings were different, which worried me. The technical guy there strongly suggested I just get a new power supply. (Fans are $10, power supplies $40. Hmm.)<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, my G4 can use a standard ATX power supply, but the motherboard connector pinouts are slightly different, and I&#8217;d have to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xlr8yourmac.com\/systems\/ATX_G4_AGP_conversion\/G4_AGP_to_ATX_case_pg2.htm#next\" target=\"_new\">splice some wires<\/a> (and me without a soldering iron or, indeed, much soldering practice). Also, my power supply is 237 watt. I <b>think<\/b> I can use a 250 safely, but I don&#8217;t <b>know<\/b> that.<\/p>\n<p>On a better note, we played <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamereport.com\/tgr8\/plagueandpestilence.html\" target=\"_new\">Plague and Pestilence<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjgames.com\/dorktower\/\" target=\"_new\">Dork Tower<\/a> at Card Night last night, and both games went over well. Dork Tower even came with a free 8-page mini version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sjgames.com\/frag\/index.html#dorkfrag\" target=\"_new\">Dork FRAG<\/a>, which means that by taking advantage of the Dragon*Con sale, I got two games for the price of half of one. Not bad!<\/p>\n<p>Soooo tired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the past year, the fan in the power supply on my G4 has been making a grinding noise. This week it got loud enough to drive raininva to distraction, so she asked me to please fix it. (Frankly, I was sick of listening to it too.) Replacement Apple power supplies run $130 &#8211; $230 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,49,18],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-apple","tag-gaming","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1xCb9-82","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gatocasa.com\/unimat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}