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I'm currently visiting relatives with no internet connection, so I'm using my tablet over USB tethering, but when I do this the tablet's power slowly drains (it even warns me its "slow charging" despite this being a USB3 root port) anyone have any idea how I can keep it from dying just from...

Going through drawers I found my (late) mother's old iphone6, and (knowing little to nothing about the software/interface since I've almost always used android) just wanted to see if there was a free/cheap program to just let me dump all the contents onto my PC in a clean, easy-to-view/search...

I am sporadically needing to tether my laptop for internet - not daily, not weekly, not even monthly; I only need it for a few (completely random...) days per year; this makes most tethering plans a HUGE waste of money for me since they tend to be stupidly expensive with a set amount per month...

After upgrading my phone, my current car charger only makes the battery last longer - over time the charge still goes down, just ~half as fast as without it... Can anyone recommend a good wireless car charger (windshield mount)? If there's no real option for charging a phone like the S22U...

I recently purchased a Ring Mailbox sensor (https://ring.com/products/ring-mailbox-sensor/) and mounted it to my mailbox... however, due to the mailbox being on the opposite (far) side of the road as my house (there's a massive drainage ditch on the edge of the property so it cant be put on the...

My wifi reception is... I'll be generous and call it unreliable... (working on that, harder to fix than it sounds with the BS modem that the ISP provides) and I have most of my house lights wired for use with Alexa (as well as Amazon Music Unlimited) but thanks to the wifi issues, my Alexas are...

Having an issue with my media server where it'll play a few videos fine, then suddenly start buffering every few seconds (even on lower resolutions)... I'll have a tv series I ripped from BD on the server and when I sit down to watch it, everything works fine for about two hours, then, the next...

My current desktop is rocking a triple-monitor display, which I sorely miss on my laptop when traveling and recently I've been seeing more videos and reviews of some nice looking portable monitors for laptops, but most of them seem to have a flaw of some kind in their construction that makes...

My old dualcore laptop is starting to show its age, so I'm looking to upgrade... but I want something that will last several years AND is in a convertible form factor... What I'd like to see is: -Convertible laptop/tablet form-factor. -Core i9 CPU -64gb RAM (32 is acceptable, 16 is...

I have an old PC (23-inch monitor) in my garage for looking up/following instructions/tutorials/manuals/etc when working on my car/motorcycle and was wondering if this gadget worked well enough to replace a mouse for quick actions (like scrolling, "pinch to zoom", tapping "play/pause" on videos...

I've tried some of the "real surround sound" headphones in stores (and read reviews) and have been very... unimpressed... likewise I've seen wacky "gimmick" products like the Sennheiser Surrounder that seem to work well (though with rather glaring caveats) Has anyone found a portable...

Perhaps I've just been using the wrong terms but for years I've been looking for a non-OEM (driverless) version of the old Creative Labs "Crystalizer" software. It came with the Audigy (and presumably later cards) and, like many volume controls it would automatically decrease the volume when it...

I know I'm late to the game, but I'm just now starting to get into the voice-chat thing... and my headset's cable is only like 3-feet long, so if I need to so much as turn on/off the lights I need to take it off. However, I have some nice Bluetooth headphones (with mic) that work well... but my...

My desktop died on me, but I noticed that the RAM from it matched the specs for my server (ASUS M5A97 w AMD FX8320) but when I installed them it just started beeping continually and would not post. A quick google search revealed that there was supposed to be a bios update to support 4x16gb RAM...

This is something I've been fighting ever since I got my first 802.11b router back in the late 90s... I have a desktop. Its plugged into the wired ethernet. I have a laptop. It's connected to Wifi. the skies will rain fire before these two pcs will share files with each other... Years ago I...

I'm not sure what happened, but I can't seem to find a solution... I have a laptop (Lenovo yogapad 900) that I used to have a sign-in pin setup on... after a while though (starting around a month or so ago), its suddenly prompting me every time I sign in (boot up, inactivity, closing the lid...

I have terrible cell reception at my home, so I usually just leave my phone on my desk (where I get amazing 1-2 bars...) and hope I hear it ring. then I use my old Motorola Bluetooth 3 headset for calls --- but if I walk even to the other side of the room (forget walking into the kitchen or...

I don't know why... maybe its the climate where I live, maybe its some irregularity in the power grid, or maybe the house is built on an ancient native-American burial mound... but... every time I leave a smart device plugged in permanently, within ~6 months its battery swells and then...

I've got a weird problem that starts and stops randomly... My desktop and my mother's desktop (but not my server, either of our laptops, Echo, Xbox 360, phones, etc...) will randomly start every 24ish hours (always at night but at different times each day) stops being able to access the...

I've just spent several hours searching the net and kept finding instructions telling me to change settings that don't exist.... (my guess is the pages are outdated) Out of all the fixes, all I could do was disable S-Voice (which wasn't even setup) and retrain my voice. When I did this, I...

I was looking at prices on ram and saw I could get 16gb sticks for my rig @ ~$40 each, so I was thinking about upgrading... However, I am already running 6x4gb sticks, totaling 24gb of ram. At this point, is there really any need to go higher except for making RAMDisks for quick-access to...

Despite it being 2018, I am still running a GTX 660 and while it is still able to run more modern titles like Fallout 4, it is starting to stumble with FPS drops and lowered or disabled effects. I'm trying to decide whether dropping another ~$30-$50 for a second 660 and running them in SLI...

Looking to upgrade my tablet to a SurfacePro 3/4 sometime in the next few months, so I'm watching for deals on a large MicroSD card. I know some cards have... issues... with certain devices, so... What cards should I keep an eye out for?

Ok, I know under normal conditions PSUs don't "slowly die" or "half die" like this (and often outliast the system they're installed in) but this is the most logical solution to me... The system is the desktop in my sig (i7 quad/16gb ram/7tb HDD/NVidea Card, etc) Note that the system is set...

My desktop has all my tv series and movies on it, and when I'm on the road I like to be able to watch them when I have nothing to do... What is the best option for Streaming from a w7 destop to either a Windows-7 laptop or an Android device? (specifically Galaxy Note2 and Galaxy note 10.1)...

I bought a new laptop and found out after the fact that the keyboard does not have back-lights. I know it will depend specifically on the laptop, but in general is it possible to upgrade a laptop that did NOT come standard with a backlit keyboard to one that IS backlit? (for those wondering...

I tried about 20 different methods to install Windows 7 on my 2010 MBP and all failed (superdrive is broken and USB-stick boot doesnt really work on 2010 MBP, decided to just wait untill the new crop of MBPs comes out in Oct and upgrade to a Retina) so I'm left now with a 500gb HDD that is split...

Looking for a good Debian-based Linux for a desktop environment (desc in my sig - sick of windows problems) I've primarily used Ubuntu (but memory issues have me looking for something else), Also tried Mint and happy with it, but want to know if there's a better option (would prefer to stick to...

After yet another crapout on my desktop I'm planning to give up and make Linux my primary OS, however, so much software is still windows-only that I need some flexibility... I've been running windows as a VM on my mac for a while now and it's working acceptably, however I know there is...

This is annoying the hell out of me because of the lack of logic. I cant find anything explicitly wrong with my system, but every time I reboot, windows hangs on the "loading windows" screen (animation keeps playing but the system becomes unresponsive, Control-alt-delete fails, optical mouse...

Ok, first off, let me say that I've spent hours hacking together a solution... I have a 2010 mbp (core i5, 4gb ram, 500gb HDD, dedicated graphics) with a busted superdrive. I installed rEFIt, and I hacked my bootcamp assistant to allow full functionality despite the presence of a CD drive...

I have a $100 VZW card I'm looking to sell for $80. Upon receiving payment I will scratch off the back and send PM you the code (as well as an image of the card) Or, for $81 I will leave the card unscratched, put it in an envelope and physically mail it to you (USPS standard mail 3-7 day...

I love my SGN2, really I do, it's the best MID I've ever had, I love the active style, the USBOTG... ...But as of late, it's been the worst *phone* I've ever owned... I'm sitting here with FULL reception (including 4G LTE) and I just got a buzz notifying me of an email --- a voicemail...

I'm about to go crazy here... I didn't know it was possible for 1 "set it and forget it" piece of hardware to have so many fucking problems! I get the ant miner and power it up, setup my pool info, then notice it's only mining at ~80-90gh/s. I search and search and finally find info in the...

Wrong forum, sorry. Didnt know [H] added a forum for Crytocurrency/hardware >.< Thread in correct forum for anyone browsing: http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1040870514#post1040870514

Ok, I just got two new games, one of them very new (comparatively - bioshock infinity) and my desktop (listed in my sig) can't play them worth crap. I'm talking single-digit FPS on lowest quality, impossible to control, not audio sync, etc. But my "new" laptop (specs here, mid edition not...

So, A guy on here was selling a laptop. It wasn't much of a deal, about average price based on eBay listings, but he was willing to trade. He had impressive heat with no negatives and had been a member for some time, so we worked out a cash+trade. I got the laptop and everything seemed fine...

Yeah, I know, Skyrim and Crysis aren't exactly "cutting edge" games, but... Currently running a 1gb Nvidia GeForce 200 (according to the official driver), and it works decently until I enter combat, then my FPS drops to single-digits... So looking at spending some Xmas cash to upgrade...

I've got a very frustrating bug... I have had 3 programs tell me I have problems with my internet connection. 2 of them telling me I am not connected to the internet (Note that I'm currently browsing the forum on the PC in question) BitTorrent keeps giving me errors saying "Hostname not...

I was talking to a friend of mine who's been researching Win8 and he told me something I thought I'd better ask about... Supposedly, with windows 8 MS has started a "Pay for installation" system where you dont actually get the windows license key (so you'll have to pay or at the least call...