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  1. Darren

    Solder on plastic Lenovo power port?

    Is the power jack on a cable that's plugged into the board (not soldered?). Looks like it. If so just pull that out completely, find a replacement on ebay, and stick it in there. I can't speak to the copper but the port should work even if it's loose as long as it's plugged in. If not then it...
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    Using 2 monitors for youtube and games decreases performance, but using one monitor works fine

    Well you probably want to install drivers for your Nvidia card since that's the gaming card.
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    AIO rattling

    It's probably on its way out. Not much you can do. Mine rattled for quite a while and still cooled fine but I did eventually replace it with an air cooler.
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    Hard Drive Data Retrieval Question

    It's likely assets from other programs and applications that were on the drive. Icon files, animated gifs for menus, etc. The software you used probably just pulled every single image type file and hence you got it all. Shouldn't be anything to worry about.
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    HP Officejet Pro 8600 Plus has white streaks only in the "Blue" print Cartridge (I attempted cleaning the printhead).

    10 year old HP All in One Printer with issues? Color me not remotely surprised. Probably not worth the effort to mess with it beyond what you've already done.
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    How do I remove a website from my search results

    Not really a proper way since you're querying something else and it's answering. You need to change your query. Can add "-amazon" to most any search engine and it should remove anything related to Amazon. First image below has "-amazon" and it doesn't show up, but regular search has it as...
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    I have older hp 19-2113w that came with Windows 8 is it possible to install Windows 10?

    I know I'm late to the party but I'll just say my current 10 Pro license was lifted from a Dell Tower OEM sticker of 7 Pro and activated on my custom built machine no problem. Prior it was a Home Premium 7 key I bought from Newegg a decade ago, just did it to jump to Pro.
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    Upgrading the Graphics card

    Sorry but lol what. Ryzen is a CPU line made by AMD, not a graphics card. You need a new computer/platform upgrade to Ryzen or whatever Intel's latest offerings are. I went from an 8350 to a first gen Ryzen 7 1700 and it was a night and day difference, and we're like 6 or 7 generations past...
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    What are you currently playing?

    Yeah I'll probably grab it eventually. I've bought several games for the SD recently and need to get through those. I grew up living and breathing HP, I read them all and had the books on tape basically playing in a loop for 6ish years while playing Runescape and WoW :D. Probably heard each...
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    What are you currently playing?

    I've been debating Hogwars Legacy but I also got laid off so I'm trying to be cheap right now. Also have a feeling it'll make me want to upgrade and I've been doing my gaming exclusively on my Steam Deck since I got it, which I know would struggle with it.
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    WIndows 10 How to search for a text string WITHIN a file?

    https://helpdeskgeek.com/how-to/search-inside-multiple-text-files-at-once/
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    Ready to buy a new computer, need your advice. Thanks

    Again, if you're still confusing RAM and memory (these are the same thing) then I think building yourself is a bad idea.
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    i7-9700k normal idle temps

    So this might have been fixable with software. Since idle temps are kind of moot, and 40oC, while warmish for idle, is not remotely detrimental to leave it at that. It might be set up to prioritize noise over temperature when at lower idle temps. Might have just needed to adjust the fan curve...
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    How should I part this laptop out...selling

    Don't waste your time, recycle it. You could MAYBE get like 20-30 bucks for the RAM. That said if it doesn't even boot, I wouldn't in good faith sell any of the parts without knowing the problem. To me it sounds like the tech just didn't want to mess with it, and I don't really blame him.
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    Ready to buy a new computer, need your advice. Thanks

    I appreciate the enthusiasm but given your posts, I would heavily encourage you to just a prebuilt. If you have to ask if you need an HP branded monitor with an HP system, well... let's just say that's indicative of experience level. :)
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    Samsung M7 Series 43” LS43BM700UUXUF - why so cheap?

    It's a 60hz VA panel, and likely not a super great one. VA and 60HZ are both on the low end, the only higher end aspect is the size and resolution. The selling point on this is clearly the "Smart" functionality, which they might actually be able to sell this at a lower price since they can...
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    Zotac 1070 AMP 8G vs Palit 2060 dual 6G

    Yeah he means benchmark.
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    Trouble transferring from one SD card to another

    I would maybe recommend a SSD if you're worried about long term storage and not losing files. External drives are pretty reliable but still have spinning disks so an SSD would be ideal as they are much less likely to go bad, really just depends on if you want to spend that much. Seagate, WD...
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    Trouble transferring from one SD card to another

    An external hard drive.
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