Holy Christ, kill me now

I got a new laptop and the headphone jack has horrible popping noises come through every time sound stops playing

Like the PC is cutting power to the jack and just dumping residual capacitance straight into my ears, this is Hell.

@Windatica Help 😂

remove battery

and don't put it back in!!!

or get a usb dac

or usb-c dongle

or maybe see if theres some power saving setting for the audio out

I think it's gonna be the USB dac, there's no battery to pull 😂 One of those newfangled varmints with everything buttoned-up.

I'll keep my eye out for some kind of power saving but this is a PC with the i7-y processor; it's designed for bleeding power saving. Do get fourteen hours or more out of a charge which is nice for a Windows 10 device, but still...

I want to know if it's supposed to do this, or if I have to RMA <:thinkjojo:333980344044879872>

try with/without the charger connected

Definitely still doing it on or off charger 😂 Also takes a moment to start playing sound again after that horror noise. So it's got to be some power-saving malarkey. Going to contact HP tomorrow. HP... <:blobhyperthink:427568506905559040>

HP <:thonk:288060975775612929>

its not power saving malarkey

its their fucking stupid board design

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what machine in particular if i may ask

I'll ring up some code monkey (read: loo) and see what I can see. Last product of theirs I owned was from 2009 😂

It's the Folio Spectre.

Otherwise really nice hardware.

Yeah the board is tiny so they need to stick shit really close together and as such noise from fucking everything else in the system rapes the poor DAC

RMA it and see what happens

maybe it's a bad unit

Every PC I've had until now has had mind-numbing little issues that make you wonder how they get sold. Like my Sony Vaio Duo 13 would blue screen trying to connect Bluetooth audio. It was a driver conflict between Broadcom and Windows 10 and both parties pointed the finger at each other until support for the chipset was dropped outright. Otherwise was a great pc. <:thvnk:332928260004642827>

look at this cute little motherboard

how could you be angry at that?!?!

The Lenovo x230T I used before that could technically boot from an mSATA drive...every 20th boot it would fail to detect the drive PERMANENTLY, unless you could boot from the regular full-size hard drive.

I'm sure it's a bad board.

Or HP is faggots and tell me that's how it works 😂 🔫

The first laptop I owned, a tx2z, was known to desolder itself from the absurd heat the GPU and CPU could output. One heatpipe, and a stack of copper>aluminum shim>thermal pad to the GPU. Hilarious.

Find me one laptop that doesn't have some absurd pile of fuck in its feature set, I dare you.

I actually think this is an RMA issue; I have literally never heard of a computer with this issue and I can't find any owners talking about this issue with my PC.

I've had this issue on my laptop

I was the one motherfucker dumb enough to buy an Alienware M11xR3 back in the day and that shit had terrible audio noise floor when the GPU was in use

My lappy reboots randomly

so I had to always use a USB DAC with it otherwise everything sounded like ass

Dell came and replaced the board and everything was good again though

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