{"id":31,"date":"2010-05-15T13:26:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-15T12:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/?p=31"},"modified":"2010-05-15T14:36:40","modified_gmt":"2010-05-15T13:36:40","slug":"power-on-psu-without-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/2010-05\/power-on-psu-without-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Power-on an ATX PSU Without a System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve got too many hard drives or other components connected to your computer, you may need a second power supply. In order to turn it on without connecting it to a motherboard you have to &#8216;jump&#8217; it. It&#8217;s a really simple process &#8211; all you have to do is connect the <strong>green<\/strong> wire to any <strong>black<\/strong> wire on the 20\/24-pin connector.<\/p>\n<p>You can get a small piece of solid core wire (or a paper-clip) and poke each end in, get some proper ATX pins and connect them to a short piece of wire or, if you don&#8217;t mind permanently &#8216;damaging&#8217; your PSU, snip the wires off, strip the end and either twist or solder them together.<\/p>\n<p>That was easy, wasn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve got too many hard drives or other components connected to your computer, you may need a second power supply. In order to turn it on without connecting it to a motherboard you have to &#8216;jump&#8217; it. It&#8217;s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/2010-05\/power-on-psu-without-system\/\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iain.rauch.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}