Question Speakers popping (All-In-One PC)

[Inf_Freeman]

Hello to everyone,

I use HP All in one PC with built-in speakers since 2019... so far so good, but recently I installed Linux on a crappy 2.5" hard drive with lots of bad sectors connected via USB , in external-powered HDD enclosure, but not directly to the PC's USB - via a USB hub, just for experimenting/fun...

I noticed that the speakers are "popping" when I start the PC and at least another 2 times during the rest of the boot process... but this happens only in that specific case - when the PC OS (or at least that Linux) is on the USB HDD...

The speakers also pop when the system (Linux) is making any kind of sound through my headphones, which by the way are constantly connected to the PC via 3.5 mm jack.

No such issues when botting my Windows 10 normally from the NVME M2 SSD inside.

No matter with headphones or not - the popping is there... I actually gave up on that "USB HDD Linux project " and I plan to install a fresh copy of Ubuntu on a brand new SSD in the coming days, and I will connect it again with the same setup in the HDD enclosure to see what happens.

Actually the big problem maybe is that these built in speakers cannot be disabled or turned down.

I found an old similar topic, but decided not to resurrect it

Speakers making a loud pops when I start my computer?

Another thing is that all of my USB ports are being used all the time, I had at least 2 cases when I had to unplug them and then plug in again because the BIOS was beeping and the PC wasn't going to boot up.

Can I somehow avoid the speakers being popping loudly in the mentioned scenario ?

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

I installed Linux on a crappy 2.5" hard drive with lots of bad sectors connected via USB , in external-powered HDD enclosure, but not directly to the PC's USB - via a USB hub, just for experimenting/fun...
You should remove the HDD from the hub and hook it to the USB port native to the all-in-one. To add, HP have a number of all-in-one's in their portfolio, which one are you working with? Model and SKU to HP all-in-one would help us two fold.

Speaking of USB hubs, can you pass on a link to the hub you're working with?

What is the capacity to your NVMe SSD? You could shrink the size of the Windows 10 partition, create another partition and then install Ubuntu on the latter partition, that way you have a dual boot system but please be warned to backup your mission critical data in case the process goes sideways.

 

[Inf_Freeman]

Hello again and Thanks for the good welcome !

My hub is this: https://www.orico.cc/usmobile/product/detail/id/3381


The SSD is 250GB (232GB actual) and currently I have only 70.9 GB free on it. I even had a 50 GB virtual machinde disk (.vdi) on it, but moved it now to a different device.

I am aware of the dual-boot configuration variant, although I don't want to mess with my primary system's boot disk. I am an experienced user, at least to some extent, but mostly with Windows. I once installed Kali Linux on a system with already installed Windows 10 on it and it asked me during the installation whether I want to keep both OSes and make the dual boot... and that was what I did.
It seems that with the newest releases this is not the case...

In fact, as I mentioned in my first post, when I install any kind of Linux - I use it just casually, for experiments, etc... so this is one of the reasons that I don't need it to be on my Windows SSD.