I wouldn't use an HTPC for those activities, Firestick or Apple TV would be the better route.
I use Apple TV 4k's here at my house and Firestick and Fire cube at my girls house.
Firestick with the built in alexa remote is pretty nifty to, just tell it what you want and it finds it or plays it.
I bought a pair of these a few years ago, really hard to get at the time due to the chip shortage and stuff, and they were $120 each.
Nice switches but both power bricks failed after a year about a week apart.
I ended up using some power bricks from some externals I shucked.
Unit has a 2 year...
One of my drives was used for mining and wrote nearly a petabyte of data in a few days, that is why mine shows 56% life left.
Is yours showing a really high total host writes?
Does your software look like this?
If you change it to 2.0/2.1 Stereo
Play some bass heavy music and go to this screen and just move the sub up and down and see if anything changes on your setup.
It doesn't do anything on my setup since I have 2.1 but my sub runs between my speakers and is...
not sure how harmful but it leaves a residue and smell on the parts.
A fire in your house and your PC sucking up all the smoke and soot makes the PC really filthy though.
this is a machine I sold to a friend who had a kitchen fire. I fully cleaned it and upgraded the coolers and fans,
Depending on how heavy you smoke and how ventilated the room is will determine how much nicotine will get stuck to the parts in the PC.
I used to smoke in the garage for years with the ashtray in front of my PC and the inside of the PC wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, and there are no...
I'd do it but if you live near a Microcenter, that means you would live 3 hours from me at least since that is the closest MC to me.
Wha's the warranty on your board? 3 years? maybe send it in and have a spare if they do warranty it.
Try doing the BIOS update with the BIOS button on the back of the motherboard and see if it will eventually POST.
Or try this, pull out the GPU, power on the system for a few minutes, power it down by holding the power button, unplug the power from the wall, hold down the power button for a few...
give this a read and see if this works for you,
https://www.easeus.com/backup-utility/automatically-backup-usb-drive-when-plugged-in.html#:~:text=On%20Windows%2011%2C%20go%20to,my%20files%20automatically%20as%20needed.
I tried to redeem it and it says I already own it. I don't own it but I have Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and it's free on there, anyone else have game pass and not own it and try to redeem it?
I just moved the SSD from my nephews core2quad or core2duo setup into an i3 8100 system. Windows 10 booted up fine and just needed a couple of restarts to get all the drivers working.
btw, Windows 7 was great at moving between completely different machines and booting up.
only time you would...
I used to use Ultramon back in the day and I am pretty sure it had hotkeys or shortcuts to disable your other monitors and automatically move the windows that are open on those screens to the active one or ones.
Looks like the last update was back in 2018 to support Windows 10...
I am pretty sure that the manufacturer probably has some kind of software since they know the layout of the board and what controllers are assigned to what port on every model board, but not sure there is a way for regular software to map it without doing it the way I mentioned for every...
has anyone every had a psu fail and damage components? I've experienced a couple of PSU failures but they made the machine either not boot or crash when under a gaming load (stress tests wouldn't crash the PC for some reason so it was hard to figure out what was wrong).
My Amiga 3000T that I...
Ya, that one read BD, HD DVD, DVD, and CD. Pretty cool drive. That is what I used in my HTPC back in the day since I was buying some HD-DVD's for cheap when Bluray won the format war.
I also had the HD-DVD drives for the Xbox 360. I bought 2 since they also worked on the PC and I wanted a...
isolation pad or stand will lessen or remove the resonation. I went with some IsoAcoustic Stands for my studio monitors and they removed the resonance and actually made the bass tighter.
I bought them since I needed to raise the speakers and watched videos talking about the isolation feature...
If you sit directly in front of the monitor most of the time and your left and right speakers are triangulated to your position then you don't need a center speaker since the mono center channel will sound centered when coming from the left and right speakers.
If you sit off to either side, then...
before I updated it would show 36 or another number depending on if I powered on from cold or from sleep.
I just did the latest BIOS update and it still shows AA. but now there isn't a white LED on under the segments like in the above picture I uploaded.
Also, after the update and during the...
I had to update my board a week or so ago since something happened one night after Windows 11 rebooted after doing an update.
PC wouldn't post and the board had an F3 error Code.
Started getting this code and LED's after flashing but still no GPU output and POST,
I then ran the PC without a GPU...
Most hubs I looked at just now have 1-2 PD outputs.
https://www.amazon.com/Minisopuru-Powered-Charging-Transfer-Splitter-dp-B0CX174KDV/dp/B0CX174KDV/ref=dp_ob_title_ce...
something like this
https://www.amazon.com/Charging-Stations-Unitek-Compatible-Adjustable/dp/B06XQ139DN?source=ps-sl-shoppingads-lpcontext&ref_=fplfs&psc=1&smid=A3BJHT3856LVW8
get a 5600G processor
or an Intel Arc A380
this one is an open box for $90, new is $110
https://www.neweggbusiness.com/product/product.aspx?item=9b-14-930-076r
Secondary keys like the ` through = aren't backlit, same as the numpads secondary keys.
In this pic you can see the <>? aren't lit up, actually, it's every secondary key that isn't lit up. (this is my G815, but the 915 should be the same)
I wouldn't call that a PC accessory. Mice, keyboards, speakers, old gaming headsets, usb hub maybe.
A usb cable could be considered a PC accessory, bring in an old one and see.
it uses 2 batteries in series so 1.2 x 2 is 2.4 volts
you can try those Lithium Rechargeables, it says low temps and shows devices that are low drain so should they may be LSD type batteries.
Best Buy has 20% of Select Logitech items when you bring in an old PC accessory to recycle.
https://www.bestbuy.com/site/logitech-g915-lightspeed-full-size-wireless-mechanical-gl-clicky-switch-gaming-keyboard-with-rgb-backlighting-black/6360844.p?skuId=6360844
These are the current...
I am still on the same set of batteries, it came with 8 AA Lithium batteries, each camera uses 2, so it comes with an extra set of batteries for the 2 cameras.
If you have a lot of traffic and the cameras get activated a lot, the battery will not last as long.
I have it save to a thumb drive...