{"id":1461,"date":"2003-07-19T13:03:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-19T17:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2021-05-24T03:16:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T07:16:46","slug":"blog-within-a-blog-my-new-computer-4-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/07\/19\/blog-within-a-blog-my-new-computer-4-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Blog Within a Blog: My New Computer 4.0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/gadgets2bug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; I hate computers. I installed the processor last night, fired it up, saw some pretty lights, and that was about it. I can&#8217;t get any display on my monitor so I can&#8217;t tell what&#8217;s going on. The processor warms up, so that seems good; the motherboard is passing power, so that seems good.  But I can&#8217;t get any display and I don&#8217;t hear any hard drive activity or POST.<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; I tried wiring everything up from scratch, but that didn&#8217;t help. I tried swapping video cards, but my old one won&#8217;t fit. I tried different monitors too, with both analog and digital cables &#8212; and I put a nice thumbprint defect on my new LCD screen in the process. I don&#8217;t like this anymore.<center><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/compfans-lg.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/compfans.jpg?resize=450%2C337&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" style=\"border: 2px solid #555;\" title=\"Click to enlarge\"><\/a><br><small>The Quick and the Dead<\/small><\/center>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; I hate computers. I installed the processor last night, fired it up, saw some pretty lights, and that was about it. I can&#8217;t get any display on my monitor so I can&#8217;t tell what&#8217;s going on. The processor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2003\/07\/19\/blog-within-a-blog-my-new-computer-4-0\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,20,16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets","category-new-computer","category-me","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}