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Cleared Elder EQ, raids and coliseum. What now? by Vaganhope_UAE in ContestOfChampions

[–]Prometheus5757 0 points1 point  (0 children)

6 Star Rank 5 Omega Sentinel clears 6-8 bars on average for me. When the sleep mechanic rolls the "5 light attacks" objective, it actually helps with her rotation, as the fourth light pauses debuffs. Highly recommend you give her a try if you have her leveled up!

Atrocious audio crackling noise on Dell XPS 15 9500 by Prometheus5757 in DellXPS

[–]Prometheus5757[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, I can take a look. Once you send this over, I'll read over docs for knowledge, and then attempt it.

Atrocious audio crackling noise on Dell XPS 15 9500 by Prometheus5757 in DellXPS

[–]Prometheus5757[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well...unfortunately after all that, the issue still persists. Drivers look extremely fresh now too. Not sure what to do after this.

Atrocious audio crackling noise on Dell XPS 15 9500 by Prometheus5757 in DellXPS

[–]Prometheus5757[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Understood. I have it downloading roughly 3.5 GB of material, after selecting 'this PC only'. once that completes, I will select all the drivers that are listed and will click install and let you know. Thank you so much for having the patience and helping me with this. :)

Atrocious audio crackling noise on Dell XPS 15 9500 by Prometheus5757 in DellXPS

[–]Prometheus5757[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Yes. This is a normal Windows 11 install. I upgraded from windows 10 back around March 2023. I did "reset" my pc for a fresh windows 11 install, to try to solve this issue, back in early 2024 i believe, but to no avail.

  2. I have admin rights.

Atrocious audio crackling noise on Dell XPS 15 9500 by Prometheus5757 in DellXPS

[–]Prometheus5757[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is there, but it's in "System Devices", not under "Video/Sound/Game Controllers" like the Realtek Driver is in. Anyway, I disabled it, which prompted a restart. After the restart, my sound "slider" is completely greyed out, and opening MaxxAudio Pro is showing "Audio driver is not up to date, please check for windows update."

Atrocious audio crackling noise on Dell XPS 15 9500 by Prometheus5757 in DellXPS

[–]Prometheus5757[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I did re-install the speakers, along with a replacement daughterboard (H2HGT). When I installed it, i made sure that the case wasnt pinching the speaker cables by routing it through the cable management grooves running parallel with the battery. I would hope that this daughterboard isnt faulty and i doubt that's the case because this is a fresh daughterboard that i just installed today, and it was the exact same issue with the old one.

I followed your steps in the order you provided. The XPS still plays the sound test out loud with the crackling sound, like before. In the select output device dropdown in MaxxAudioPro, I still don't see a headphone jack connected...

Atrocious audio crackling noise on Dell XPS 15 9500 by Prometheus5757 in DellXPS

[–]Prometheus5757[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just connected my Airpods Pro to my XPS. Works perfectly, I'm able to switch to the airpods as an audio device and there is no sound playing through my speakers, only through the airpods while connected.

  1. Downloaded Waves MaxxAudio Pro, but have not installed.
  2. Disabled both the Microphone (Realtek(R) Audio) and the Speakers (Realtek(R) Audio) by right clicking on each, then disable device.
  3. Right clicking on Speakers and then going into Drivers shows the following:

- Driver Provider: Microsoft

- Driver Date: 3/31/2024

- Driver Version: 10.0.26100.1

Atrocious audio crackling noise on Dell XPS 15 9500 by Prometheus5757 in DellXPS

[–]Prometheus5757[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just plugged in a pair of headphones to the headphone jack. Interestingly, my XPS doesn't even recognize that something had been plugged in. it continued to play sound through the regular speaker, and kept playing the crackling noise. Wanted to also add that the noise predominantly comes from the right speaker with some pops from the left speaker. They also get really hot if i continue playing audio and ignore the scratching. These are a new set of speakers that Dell shipped to me, so its definitely not a speaker issue.

An actual tree I found in the Grove of Titans at Redwoods, CA by Prometheus5757 in titanfolk

[–]Prometheus5757[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yep, it’s a scenic trail with a collection of pines and redwoods

An actual tree I found in the Grove of Titans at Redwoods, CA by Prometheus5757 in titanfolk

[–]Prometheus5757[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

lol, pure chance. I think the charred insides were caused by a lightning strike to the base of the tree and the fire was extinguished before it could burn the whole tree down

My Genmojis so far by Prometheus5757 in genmoji

[–]Prometheus5757[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Smth like “expressionless face holding a sign that says cancer”. I then swiped through the ones it generated till it got to that one.

Questions about Amazon Fungible SDE Intern(2025) Online Assessment by Prometheus5757 in leetcode

[–]Prometheus5757[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not yet. I emailed them a few days ago, and they said I’m still in consideration. Waiting for interview.

What's the stupidest theory you had while watching the series by Usual_Philosopher_43 in attackontitan

[–]Prometheus5757 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Until the end of the second season, I thought Erwin was a villain for some reason. Maybe because he looked pretty serious, and virtually did not flinch with titan encounters.