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Hey guys/gals, do any of you have a reputable place to source a phone battery from? I'm looking to replace the battery in my Samsung S9+ and I'm asking because the last "guaranteed new replacement" is terrible in under one year and was actually manufactured in 2018... Is there anyone even making batteries still? There has to be a lot of these devices still around... I kinda don't want a new phone because I like the headphone jack and the fingerprint sensor on the back. Any help greatly appreciated :D, J

We have wire mesh in out walls, but not the ceilings. The WiFi won't go through the walls, but it has less of a hard time going from the attic.

Hi! I've been asked to handle our network setup at home. Our connection is through an LTE box, and I'm planning on having 2 access points with the same SSID broadcasting so you can seamlessly go from one side the house to the other. My question is: are RJ45 surge protectors necessary? We live in a house without a lightning rod, and the access points will be in the attic so I can't unplug them in thunderstorms. Is there any danger of them dying from lightning hitting nearby and inducing a current in the long-ish patch cables? Also, if any of you great people have any suggestions regarding which APs I should choose, I'd be grateful :D, I was thinking of using the Ubiquiti UniFi 6 Lite, but I'm not quite sure. Thank you in advance for any answers tech tips :D. J PS: Sorry for my English, it is not my 1st language

Well, it took some pretty drastic measures due to me not having the right equipment :D. Do Not Look inside of the spoiler if you don't want to be horrified (seriously). The good news are that the new SSD is in, I could even reuse the stupid screw from HP that caused this in the first place :D. The boi lives: Thanks for all of the tech tips! I know I can always get the best ones here! J PS: I really hope this SSD is okay without a cooler :D, it would definitely benefit from one, but it's inside of a laptop sooo....

Like this?

It came like this, that's my main problem. After all of my problems, I don't think I'll be buying HP again. They might even try to sell me additional warranty to deal with their crappy screws :D.

Thanks, I'll try that :D.

What even is this. I went to pull out the SSD to put a new one in and I was greeted with this. I can't do anything with this, I'll have to take a small file or something to it (I don't have a dremmel). If anybody has any ideas on what I should do, I'll be very grateful. Sorry for rant and bad English, not my first language but this just has me fuming.

So my father tried to play a bit of Skyrim a while ago. But his integrated graphics in the i5-2400 kinda couldn't cut it. So I searched for a bit and found an old gt640 from Zotac that I had for quite a long time now. I connected it, and it isn't getting detected. The system boots and everything, the fans spin, but the card isn't detected. I tried updating the bios, trying a different slot etc. but no luck. Would anybody please have any tips for me? Thanks for any help.:D CPU: i5-2400 RAM: 4GB DDR3 1333 MHz Motherboard: P8H67-M PRO (Sry for my English, it's not my 1st language)

Thanks! The warranty is gone anyway and the thing is that this one is running really hot even for this particular laptop (also the difference in temperatures between cores is like 20°C which I don't think is normal). I was thinking of using thermal grizzly cryonaut, people like it, bunch of different tech channels recommend it and it is non-curing (which I think is good :D). Well anyways, thanks for the tip J

So I recently acquired a new laptop. It is the ROG GL702vsk, well, not really, it is s7vs7700, but that is the Chinese version of GL702vsk (or at least the specs are the same and it looks the same when you open it, even the parts say GL702vsk, it is just the model number that is different). Point is, when I'm playing the Witcher 3, cores 1 & 3 stay at reasonable +-80 °C, while 2 & 4 shoot up immediately to 95, which throttles the whole processor down, I also have some throttling issues regarding the GPU (it runs at around 800 MHz instead of 1400-1600). I did try other games and the problems seem to persist, they just aren't as prominent as in the Witcher 3. Do I change out the thermal paste on this? I know that this laptop usually does run quite hot and doesn't usually boost very high, but the air coming from the heatsinks is quite warm, but not hot per say (my other laptop with a 1050 spits out much hotter air) and it also probably shouldn't sit at 800MHz. Thanks for any suggestions & sorry for any grammar (English isn't my first language) J

Thanks, could you recommend some to me? I really don't know what to use... :]

Kinda dumb of a question... Some laptops have tape inside of them to help the airflow. Does anybody know what tape is that? Recently, I had to replace the thermal paste in a new laptop bc the stock one was garbage and this tape around the area with heat pipes came off. Normally I would just use the electronically insulating tape but I don't want it to melt due to the high temperatures... Thanks for any help J

Hey everybody :D, just a quick question. Does any of you know a satellite internet company (USA, TN) that you can recommend? I'd be really glad for any recomendation :D.

Hey guys, thank you all for helping me, I have not resolved it yet, but I am applying for warranty claim since my charging port stopped working as well :D. (its just braking down, damn HP :D). So once again thank you and may the force of Linus be with you.