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Title. So recently I bought a brand new 4070Ti (Gaming X Trio) and new case to fit it inside of for a PC upgrade, but after 8 hours of labour and wiring everything up, I plugged everything in, pressed the power button, and after a moment there was a very quiet pop sound (which I thought was just the AIO Cooler), but after a louder (still not loud) pop, I could smell a distinct burning smell which filled my entire room after a few minutes. I turned my PC off after a couple seconds as it didn't power itself off. I haven't done a sniff test to see what smells bad yet, instead I just went to bed and figured I'd deal with it tomorrow, which is now today. Specs: RM750x, 4070Ti Gaming X Trio, Ryzen 7 5800X, 32Gb Corsair Vengence (3200), Asus TUF X-570 Gaming PLUS (Wi-Fi). I did use only one PCiE Type 4 cable plugged into the 2 connectors for the 16>12 pin converter, but I read online that this was fine to do since both can handle 150W/ea. Now the question is what do I do next? I have a 2060 but don't want to fry it or anything else w the PSU if it did sacrifice itself. Should I get an RM850x so I can have 2 dedicated cables to the GPU? Could the GPU be the problem and, if so, kill my new PSU if I do get one? I'm stressing so hard over this so any and all advice is greatly appreciated... Thank you all

My computer audio will sometimes randomly make a faint cracking/popping/peaking sound while it is on. It is very inconsistent and I am sure others would barely notice it if they got on my computer but to me it is very prominent and annoying. While I am watching youtube, playing games, in a discord, or whatever, a very faint cracking sound in the audio will happen then it will go back to normal. I also noticed while changing the volume on different websites such as twitch and youtube there will be a consistent crack when the volume is changed and the volume knob is slid up and down. It is most prominent with the windows volume overall. I am unsure if this is a part of the problem or just something that has happened and I have never noticed it. It began when I first plugged in a new headset on the back audio jacks (mic in/line in). I was testing the quality of said headset and went back to compare it to my old one. This is when I first noticed the very faint cracking sound inconsistently while my friends in discord were talking. Then, with the old headset on, I played Warzone with them and noticed the cracking sound even more and even noticed that loud sounds (car music, jets flying overhead, a nearby contract beeping) would sound like they were peaking my headset. It got very annoying very fast and went on a hunting spree to try and fix it. Preface: - 64 Bit Windows - Did not happen (or did not notice) until new headset was plugged in 3/17 - Original audio drivers when old headset was in use: AMD High Definition Audio, High Definition Audio (Devices) - It is VERY inconsistent, and annoying. Could not reliably recreate it in games, but could, however; recreate it by replaying certain parts of videos (this may just be part of said videos) - Mic sounds the same - Don't remember my exact bit rate and sample rate I used with my old headset - The crack/pop isn't very loud, could almost be described as a small skip/break in the audio Things I have Done: - Tried reinstalling audio drivers - Tried changing audio drivers to Realtek High Definition Audio (Via updating [Realtek] back to High Definition Audio) - Tried using 5 different headsets to test if the problems still persisted - Tried using 5 different connectors/splitters to connect the headsets to the computer - Changed to almost all sample rates and bit rates for all the headset speakers - Tried most enhancements both Realtek and regular High Definition Audio - Disabled and enabled exclusive mode for each headset - Tried turning down volume - Tried turning up volume - Shutting down computer - Restarting computer - Turning on computer with no sound drivers available, then enabled them - Tested front and back 3.5mm jacks - Tried using a G432 jack to USB connector (Variety of results from this) - Tried only having the headphones jack connected while leaving the mic unconnected - Tried ditching the 1 to 2 jack splitter (splits one jack to have a mic in / line in) and plugged the headset itself into the line/audio in (front and back) - Tried using my monitor's speakers (They are quiet but the problem doesn't seem to happen there) - Listened to a long consistent pitch through my headset but couldn't consistently notice if the crack/pop was happening - Checked the jacks to make sure they didn't look damaged or loose - Uninstalled Discord to see if it was just a discord problem Things I Haven't Done: - Using an actual USB headset (I'd have to buy one) - Fully wiped all my files and apps - Using a Bluetooth headset - Fresh Windows Restart - Attempt to record the crack/pop/skip/break Weird Notes: - When a headset is plugged into the front or back line in jacks on my computer, and Realtek High Definition Audio is being used, the volume cracking sound is prominent ON BOTH JACKS when sliding the windows volume up and down. - When a headset is plugged into the line in jacks on my computer, and High Definition Audio Device is being used, the cracking sound is prominent ONLY ON THE BACK JACK when sliding the windows volume up and down. - With that said, whether High Definition Audio Device or Realtek High Definition Audio is being used, the inconsistent, may or may not be correlated random cracking sound while playing games and at a fixed volume is STILL PRESENT. - Front Mic In jack has never worked and creates a loud screeching sound in my mic Headsets Used: - HyperX Cloud Alpha Pro --- HEADSET THAT (POSSIBLY) CAUSED PROBLEM - TBI Imba Pro V8 --- ORIGINAL HEADSET - Logitech G432 - TBI Imba Pro V8 --- Used another one I found - Kotion Each Headset --- Unsure of Model Specs ASUS Rog Strix B550-F Gaming Wi-FI Gigabyte AMD 5700XT AMD Ryzen 3700X Vengeance Corsair Pro 2x8 16GB RAM Coolermaster H500 ARGB Samsung 970 NVME 1TB SSD EVGA 80+ Gold Certified 850 Watt PSU Conclusions - I could be crazy and this might all be in my head (I don't think this is) - Likely an audio driver problem I need help solving - Very faint cracking sound every once in awhile that is hard to recreate - Audio does however; crack consistently when volume sliders are moved up and down - The cracking sound doesn't just happen when loud sounds are being played, my friends could be talking in discord and it would crack/pop

Hi, Some four weeks ago a friends laptop made a pop sound (twice or three times) after connecting it to the power supply. Some context as he described it: The night before he used his laptop ( not connected to the power supply). After he stopped using it (still with charge), he left the laptop on the table disconnected, although the power supply was connected to a generic ups. That night there was a heavy thunderstorm. The next morning he connected the laptop to fully recharge it and after some minutes he heard two or three "Pop" sound coming from behind the laptop. The thing is, his laptops works as intended and he continues playing/working/editing with no issues. He even run some tests after that issue (3d mark and some others). All results are as good as before. So the thing is. What was that? just some non damaging static in the air because of the thunderstorm? A serious thing that luckily didn't fry the laptop? An issue he has to further investigate to see if something or the whole laptop is about to go kaboom? If the last one is a probability. Any advice of how to self identify it or just turn it to a repair store?

Which pop filter is good for headset mics? If any, link please

I'm in shock. Let's see if I get it: funko executives thought this two deserved to exist in glorious plastic injection shapes. My obvious reaction was to run, grab my credit card and look for Elon Musk's. Can you guess what happened? Exactly, it was nowhere to be found. My point is: what do this people have inside their heads? Could it be amniotic fluid? Air? A black hole, maybe? I just find it intriguing...

EVGA is generally a trusted power supply brand, but what about the 600w, it looks kinda sketchy, but it is an evga...

Hello all, I have recently brought a 2nd hand ASUS VG236 monitor and really enjoy it, however it occasionally makes small or big cracking or popping sounds, not sure if it would be internals or the plastic structure, I ruled out the spring that was on the stand as it is now wall mounted and it still continues to make these sounds. Any help would be appreciated!

Hello Guys, Im very new to Linux and i have the problem that always when i try to boot PopOS! from a USB Stick or thru my VirtualBox, i just wont Start. Always when its booting it stuck at the same spot, i thought maybe my .iso is damaged and loaded a new one but still the same problem. At the picture you can see the Spot where it always get stuck while booting. Can anybody help me?

Morning, people. So, here I stand with manjaro, pop os and elementary looking at me, waiting for my decision... which I can't make yet... So I need your guys' help: How's elementary OS for web development? I know about the packages, that it "feeds" on Ubuntu repositories, but how about it for coding? When searching on YT I see a lot of people using pure Ubuntu, some others with manjaro(that I heard was more on the bleeding side of the bleeding edge), but I don't know which to pick. I need stability, not too high of resource demanding (i got a i3 3240 with 8 gb of DDR3 and a kingston SSD, but want that baby flying on compilation). My main focus right now is Javascript (with node and vscode), but soon enough college will require Java and C. Can you guys help me out? What distro would be good for a guy learning to code?

I was just minding my own business playing a bit of classic wow when all of a sudden, POP! Fuse box tripped in my house and the lovely smell of fried components rose from my beloved PC I think I have a 10 year warranty on the PSU from corsair but it was bought in 2012, what I'm mainly worried about is the rest of the computer. How likely is it that other components are dead? Is there any harm in me buying a replacement PSU and simply turning it on again? I dont want to make things worse. Also, the information about what minimum watts I need for my build all conflict with each other. Cpu r5 3600 Ram 16gb ddr4 corsair 3600 Gpu 5700xt red devil Would I be good with a nice 650w from say corsair? Or should I change brands to avoid the possibility of another grenade being inside my psu? It was loud and I might need to change my pants... Thanks!

I bought a new pc a few days earlier. One the first day the psu made a loud pop noise and my pc turned off and I immediately turned off the main board switch. i turned it on again and it was working fine until it did the same thing again the next day .This time I didn't turn off the main switch immediately and saw the pc restarted so I assume it was going to restart the first time too. I went to the shop and got my psu replaced. That day my pc worked fine but on the day after that same thing happened except this time a spark also came out of my psu(is was plugged in a different switch board btw). My pc did not turn on this time because the corresponding mcb switch of the plug point fell. i turned on my pc and saw that it was working fine but I am not using it till I find a solution. I use my pc for long times before the psus pop btw. [CPU][AMD Ryzen 5 3600] [Motherboard][Asus Prime B450M-A] [Memory][2 x 8GB Adata XPG D30 3000] [Storage][SSD Adata 480 GB SU 630 and HDD Seagate 2 TB 7200 RPM] [Case][Deepcool matrexx 55 mesh 4f] [Power Supply][Corsair CX 750]

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Hi, I've been trying to determine how to stop an annoying windows 10 nvidia pop up which causes my secondary display to flicker whilst watching movies and gaming. It appears each 1-2hours which is driving me insane. My setup: Display 1: Sony KDL55w800c via HDMI Display 2: Benq xl2420g via Display port. My first display is used in my Living room. Second is in my office. I'm hopping to be able to use both display at the same. Any help with trying to fix this would be great. Cheers.

I need help with my audio output. Recently I started hearing a faint popping from youtube videos mostly from recorded voice. But now it is pervasive in music and other sounds and sources. I have replaced speakers, cables, and have used my Bose headphones on the front panel and back and they pop also. I reloaded all the chipset drivers and updated the bios and replaced the audio drivers. Still popping. So I am going to assume that the audio circuits in the motherboard have had a blow out or something. Cant adjust it out and it wont go away. So, should I get an pci-e audio card and turn off the HD Audio in bios? Or should I roll the dice and buy a new motherboard? The price is not that much different. Mobo is Asus Z170-A with 32gb memory, i7-6700K, Windows 10... Or does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix the pop noise? Thank you!

Hoping someone on here can help point me in the right direction.. For about the last year, I have had an issue with my audio getting out of sync over time. This is especially apparent when watching videos on youtube. The longer the video the farther out of sync it gets. I have tried rolling back sound drivers, using different browsers, even a fresh install of windows. reinstalled drivers multiple times. I will say that rolling back the drivers does work sometimes. If I roll them back, I will get a few days worth of no issues, then it just goes back to doing what it was. I think Windows is forcing the drivers to update, but then when I go back and try to roll them back again, it doesn't fix the issue. It's weird and that's why I gave up and started using the following... My temporary solution has been to plug the speakers into the monitor audio output and everything stays in sync. But, now I have a pop noise whenever I open something that delivers audio, such as when I go to youtube, it's like the monitor has a audio output sleep mode and it wakes it up whenever it sees something that could put out a signal. sometimes the videos will start and play for about 3-5 seconds before the audio actually starts. It stays in sync, but there is a noticeable delay at the beginning. And a "Pop" when it comes out of the sleep mode. Anyone heard of this before or know how to fix it? I think the issue is the onboard audio on my motherboard since the gpu audio output works fine, though I would rather be using the motherboard audio.

Every single time I start a youtube video, a VLC video, whatever has audio, I get a pop. When I close that down, a pop. I am using Arctis Pro GameDac and I don't know what to do anymore. I disabled Realtek, which wasn't gonna have an influence on that anyway, but I gave it a try. Didn't work. Every driver, including bios, is up to date. Anyone maybe with experience and know how to fix that? P.s.: Enhancements are also not enabled. Edit:// Previous USB Headset didn't have it. I assume it's the GameDac maybe, but what to do about it? It seems to be going into "power saving" mode or whatever you wanna call it. So it activates and deactivates as soon as you don't have audio. I thought maybe USB suspension is on in power settings, but it's not. I disabled it.

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Hi all, I have a problem with my setup.. What I have atm is the KEF LS50W and a Samsung Q80R. What I noticed is that I somehow get sometimes a short crackling/pop on my slave speaker. Sometimes it is several times in an hour and sometimes I don't have it for a couple of hours. What I used to have is that the slave speaker also had no signal for a short second. It's all very weird to me.. I connected this all by optical and what I noticed is that my TV is making somehow some optical noise, a slight fast ticking hum (only on the slave speaker).. this is weird because I though that the optical connection doesn't have a any problem in regard with interference... maybe is's because of the bad output on my TV. I don't know.. When I do disconnect the optical connection the speakers have a very silent his, but this is normal.. but they sound the same and when I connect the optical connection again. Then the ticking hum is back on only my slave speaker... Connections: Power Speakers: Outlet, Surge Protector, Powerline, Kef Power TV: on a circuit with everything else, Wifi outlets, lights (led's), network switch, Telefon Audio connection: TV, Optical, Optical Switch, KEF Where I noticed these crackles and loss of Audio on the slave was with that the audio came form my TV. Maybe the optical connection is bad on my KEF's? How can I check this? This is all very frustrating. I invested a lot of money in this setup and I would REALLY like that it just functions... If I have forgotten some information, feel free to ask me! Thank you for your support!

Hello, This is the only place that I hope can bring peace to my mind. I have a persistent problem since the Windows 10 Anniversary update that has challenged my mental capabilities each and every one of these 20 days since the update. The problem is: Sound crack and Popping occurs when playing audio/gaming/streaming videos followed by stuttering / mini stuttering when playing game. Especially bad if I switch tabs or doing both at the same time. I checked my PC's DPC latency, and it is through the roof. I used 2 programs to check my DPC latency: Latency Mon and DPClat. The first tool brought up a detailed report as to what causes the problem and the second just informed me of my extreme latency (1500 ms). According to Latency Mon (I will include the report below) dxkrnl.sys (DirectX Graphics Kernel, Microsoft Corporation) is what causing the huge spikes. The first thing I did was to re install the drivers of my GPU (GTX 970). Nothing changed. I then proceeded to remove my GPU, remove the drivers using DDU and checking again. The same thing was reported with my integrated gpu. I proceeded to do a clean install of windows 4 different times, testing from the beginning if I had issues and until I installed all the necessary drivers of my motherboard. The same problem was reported each and every time. And the same problem with the sound occurred each and every time. I sold my 970 and got a 1070 (was planning an update anyway). Same thing. Now I am sitting here, with no GPU inside my rig, with a fresh install of windows, trying to figure out what is wrong and what is causing the DirectX Graphics Kernel, Microsoft Corporation to cause all these problems. On top of that, to eliminate any problems related to audio drivers or bad integrated sound card, I used sound from my AT2020 USB+ microphone which has a dedicated sound card. Same thing happened when using sound directly from the microphone. P.S - Before you post the usual, yes I did everything a sane person would do. Changed the power settings to be at high performance, removed from BIOS any power management related setting, Removed drivers and reinstalled them using DDU, did a fresh installation (not even reset) of windows, changed cables of each and every component, updated my GPU to a new one, changed ram slots, removed any oc on CPU, GPU, RAM etc etc etc. Please, for the love of God and everything holy, help me find the issue. It's been 20 days that I cannot do anything on my PC. P.S 2 - SPECS: Mobo: MSI z170 m7 Gaming CPU: i7 6700K GPU: MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X (Prior: MSI GTX 970 Gaming) Ram: HyperX Savage @2144 (2400 OC) 8G (1 stick, planning to purchase more in the near future) P.S 3 - Latency Mon Report (Displays Win 8 as my operating system, I suppose it's a bug as it was just updated to windows 10 compatibility)

I've got my self built pc for about 3 months. Just from yesterday, i noticed a static noise whenever i have a tiny little lag. It's not just in games. While browsing on chrome or opening new tabs, it occur. Even when refreshing the page The noise sounds like when your earpiece jack is about to fray and have to bend a side to hear. I've tried reinstalling my driver, realtek HD audio. For a while it's fine. But about 5 mins later it came back. Any idea?

Hey friends, I have 2 problems I need to address. 1. A while ago my PC randomly reset all my audio settings such as EQ. Not sure why, but I went through it all again and it all seems normal. However, when I am playing music and have a game or something open, the music sometimes goes quiet. It's not the setting in Windows for communication programs to make everything quiet, because I have checked that and it is set to do nothing. Only when something else loud happens in another program it happens. I am running a Creative Soundblaster sound card!!! 2. I have also started hearing some popping from my headphones. I am using a reasonable amp, I don't think it is a lack of power because it was fine before hand. It isn't too bad, but enough to annoy me. I honestly don't know what is going on, and I have asked all my mates and no one really understand what I am saying. I hope the screenshots of my Soundblaster settings helps!!! Cheers guys!

My Asus VS278Q-P of probably 2 years has recently started to make a clicking/popping sound which only happens around 5 minutes after being "shut off" (sleep mode) It then persists for about 10 minutes and seems to get a little quieter and take a little longer after each click/pop until it eventually stops all together. I haven't noticed the sound when the monitor is on, actively displaying something. Is my monitor going to die soon or something? I doubt it's related but I believe it was a couple months ago I noticed these two spots that are always abnormally bright. It may not be easy to see in the picture, but I can still see them . I have no idea what this issue is either. It's not dead pixels, it's not brighter pixels, it appears to be two dots with backlight bleed. Thanks for any help

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Are Monitors/TV's being made that have picture-in-picture or picture-out-of-picture via 2 different HDMI sources? All of my sources are HDMI only and none are for cable TV. The only one I could find is the monoprice 28" 4K monitor. Are there others available?

Alright guys so I got rid of my Be quiet straight power 10 because it was giving me uncontrollable coilwhine at uncertain times. Now I got myself the Cooler master v650 Semi modulair. Install went fine. Booted up quiet. no complains there. But when I was satisfied and wanted to turn my pc off I heard a loud pop/click/tick (like flicking a switch) right before it lost power. I booted up and shut down a couple more times to make sure but yeah there is a rather loud sound. does anyone know what this is? or do I need to RMA this one as well?