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Budget (including currency): 900 US Country: USA Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Older game emulation, basic PC tasks, home use Other details: Current PC LENOVO 90HV000NUS ideacentre 510A-15ICB / 3.60 gigahertz Intel Core i3-8100. ASUS GeForce GT 1030 2GB GDDR5 HDMI DVI Graphics Card (GT1030-2G-CSM) I have an I3 from Lenovo in 2019. I have upgraded it with a 2 tb Samsung SSD and the graphics card for use with a 4k Samsung monitor. I was thinking of getting a new PC with a graphics card already built in. However those are not cheap at the moment so I might just buy a PC without it and transfer my old graphics card into a new one. One person online told me my current i3 pc could be upgraded to a Intel i7-9700 3GHz. However I have never done that kind of updating before. I have done other things, but never messing with the CPU. Not sure I want to risk it. Also in some reviews for new pcs I see an HDD listed with the SSD, but some say there is no HDD with it. Is it normal now to not have the extra HDD anymore? I can only assume some people reviewed different versions of the same desktop?

I am guessing these may have been asked before, but thought I would check. I am thinking of using shop pay and getting a LLT Screwdriver. Does LLT store do the pay in 4 payments with Shop Pay if its over $50 US? Some online stores I have seen do not. Also I am in the US (North Dakota) does the product ship from Canada or is there a US store? Shipping times? Thanks.

For years I have had the Harmony remotes for controlling everything entertainment wise. After I got YouTube tv my family got into Rokus and the remotes for rokus can control tvs so I just got into the habit of those. Well I have started going back to simple Harmony 350s where there is no LCD screen to change the controls, you just hit the "tv" or "dvd" buttons and the like to say what devices you want to use. Well since Logitech has stupidly decided to get rid of Harmony it has cause everyone to sell their Harmony on ebay for 100s of dollars even when its very clearly heavily used. So I bought a new remote from amazon a Sofabaton U! remote that is supposed to be the replacement for Harmony. While I do like that you can use a phone/tablet app to program the remote instead of cords and a pc program. I find the U1 has two major flaws to it. First I have to be almost right in line with the device to work. On my roku I have to be pointed directly at it, not even up a little bit, or it wont work. Second if I do not use the remote for a bit the buttons seem to need sometimes 3 presses to get the device to respond. Like if I want to pause I have to hit the button a few times to get it to go. Then it will seem to remember the device its controlling. But after a few more times... it seems to take a few button presses again to do the same thing. I have read of the more expensive version the X1 getting bricked by the last update on some remotes. Is anyone else having trouble the Sofabaton remotes? Is there a better Harmony replacement? Devices I used it on.... Samsung Series 8 4k tv Roku Streambar (mini version) Xbox One Tivo streamer box

Not sure if this is the right place, but here goes. I have a windows 10 desktop, I use google chrome as my browser. Used to be if I had to reboot windows, then I could just reopen chrome and my tabs would reopen. As of a month ago anytime I do a reboot (if chrome is open or not) I try to open chrome after the reboot and it locks up. It shows the google search screen locks up. It shows two message 1. Asking if I want to restore my last session. 2. That Flash will be finished in December 2020. I have to go into task manager and it shows I somehow have up to 18 tabs open when none are, and I have to 'end task' it. I try several more times and the same thing happens. Only about 10 minutes or so after I can open chrome and it works again. I do not see anything in a virus scan or a malware scan.

I got a Acomdata esata 1tb usb external drive from my bother to get stuff off of it. I had no power cable, so I tried many universal ones I have where you can select various size plugs and work them. Nothing worked to power it on. I found a T8 screw driver and opened it up. I took out the sata HD which turned out to be a samsung hd103ui 1 tb drive. I tried a few things I had. I had a HD docking station and the dock would not show power lights when the samsung drive was plugged in. When I took it out of the drive the dock lights came on again. I tried a sata port board with a usb cord that I got from a kit that you use to clone HD data from a pc HD. It had a blue light on so I assume it also had power. The blue light on the board was lit, but no reading on the pc. One place I see online says to remove the control board from the bottom of the HD with the sata connections on it, and replace it with another one of the same kind/number and see if that works. So they think it could be just the circuit board on the HD with the sata connections on it. But I have never done that and do not know how to do that. Not sure if its just removing screws, and replacing the board on the bottom of the HD. When used before the drive was on a vista/xp pc. It had either usb 2.0 device cable or a esata connection. I have a Windows 10 64bit pc. Could that cause the trouble? Though I do not think it would stop it from turning on? Thanks