josh107

Greetings, Planning of doing build, some parts ordered ( still on its way ) are 9600k, Asus TUF Z390M-PRO GAMING (WI-FI), GTX 1660 Ti, Noctua NH-D14, 1x M.2 NVMe and 1x M.2 SATA drive. Checked the Noctua's site for memory support, all good there, but some time after ordering remembered to check motherboard compatibility only to realize that cooler is going to block first pci-e slot. Motherboard has two PCIe x16 slots, does the second slot operate at x8 speeds? Manual just states that in single VGA configuration you should use first pci-e for best performance and second PCIEX16_2 is listes as N/A. So am I in trouble or what, should I change cooler to smaller one, change to ATX motherboard or am fine using second pci-e slot? Thank you.

The issue is probably caused of having bad onboard audio. Issue seems to go away when using echo cancellation.

Greetings, I recently my hands on HyperX Cloud Stinger headset. It has single 3.5mm output + splitter for speaker and microphone. Its picking up audio that I'm hearing ( music, game sounds etc... ). The issue persists even if mic is muted. If I plug in some random desktop mic I have laying around, the issue goes away. What could I try to find out if its either hardware ( motherboard or headset itself ) or software issue?

http://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/X550CA/HelpDesk_Download/ - So you've installed most of the drivers from here? Including Wireless, Lan, Chipset, Utilities -> ATKACPI driver and hotkey-related utilities, USB 3 drivers etc ? Edit: There's also some kind of "Asus Live Update" under Utilities, have you checked that one out ?

Nvidia also has better drivers on Linux compared to AMD.

For one laptop which came with Windows 8 pre-installed ( OEM key ). This Microsoft thing did not work.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-8/create-reset-refresh-media - Should be close to previous post. Or you could get it from torrents, find an ISO that includes not pre-activated editions and simply install and activate using the key.

Maybe cmd would to the trick, open up command prompt and type "shutdown -a" ( without quotes ).

http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/create-a-usb-stick-on-windows - this is one of the ways.

Depends for how long you hold power button down, 4-5 seconds should force it to shut down. Have you done any changes to system or have idea after what such an event could occur? I still would suggest you to create some Linux Live USB, even just for testing and see if it has any effect.

All depends what you want from this operating system. 1. If you are not gaming or you're dual booting then go for it 2. Also you could create live usb and look around without doing permanent changes to hard drive. Ubuntu isn't hard to configure at all, probably one of the easiest ones out there.

Computer also wouldn't react to ctrl + alt + del ? I guess the best would be to determine if its hardware or software issue. I would try creating Ubuntu Live USB, boot into Linux and let some video play for a while.

Well you can get the dust out with compressed air, not that expensive way to go. So you probably want to try that out first, clean your system from dust. Also you could bring out what brand is your PSU and is it 80+ Bronze ( or better ) certified ?

I'm kinda out of ideas, but you're not alone with this problem. A lot of people seem to have similar problem of yours ( Google ), you can search and see if you find anything that might help. If not and your laptop came Windows 8 pre-installed then you probably can re-install it with the same license ( You can extract key from BIOS with certain software, for example RWEverything ). If you are going for re-install, and you'd want to restore some files, your best bet is either create Bootable Live USB / CD of some Linux or connect laptop hard drive with the desktop machine.

Have you tried monitoring the temperatures ? How old is the CPU anyways ( last time you've changed thermal compound ? / or it probably came pre-installed )