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July 21st, 2017 15:00

Inspiron 15 7579 Sound Cracking/Gliching/Buzzing

Hello, I have noticed my sound begin to crack and glitch whenever I plug in and out the charger into the laptop. I have updated by Intel RST and the issue persists. The sound also occasionally glitches out and buzzes randomly. The most common issue for me is the sound cracking (staticy). I've noticed this issue since I first bought the laptop but assumed that a update would fix it. Anyone have a solution to this? I am running Win10 Home. If anyone more system information is required please tell me.

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July 28th, 2017 09:00

Hello, I was able to fix all the warnings of whealogger in the event viewer. I am still experiencing the audio problems. Ive been monitoring the CPU in the task manager and noticed that the audio issue happens when the CPU spikes up to 100%. The CPU speed went up to 3.03 or somewhere around it. I now believe that there must be either a driver or a program which is causing spikes in the CPU. Without playing music i noticed that the CPU speed is unstable, the speeds range from .98 GHz to 2.94 GHz. For the most part it is under 2.00 GHz but fluctuates a lot. While playing music the CPU speed is around 2.50 and very rarely goes under 2.00 and also rarely goes up to 3.03 GHz. Hopefully this information is useful in order to sort out this issue.

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July 29th, 2017 05:00

there must be either a driver or a program which is causing spikes in the CPU.

Have you tried LatencyMon? It might identify a problem driver.

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July 29th, 2017 10:00

Hello, I ran a test using LatencyMon. I am going to post it here so it could be viewed and analyzed. Please if anyone spots anything post it here. Also if there is any action that I need to take please tell me.

Here is the report:

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CONCLUSION

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Your system appears to be having trouble handling real-time audio and other tasks. You are likely to experience buffer underruns appearing as drop outs, clicks or pops. One or more DPC routines that belong to a driver running in your system appear to be executing for too long. Also one or more ISR routines that belong to a driver running in your system appear to be executing for too long. At least one detected problem appears to be network related. In case you are using a WLAN adapter, try disabling it to get better results. One problem may be related to power management, disable CPU throttling settings in Control Panel and BIOS setup. Check for BIOS updates.

LatencyMon has been analyzing your system for  1:16:56  (h:mm:ss) on all processors.

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SYSTEM INFORMATION

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Computer name:                                        DESKTOP-9R3JU6P

OS version:                                           Windows 10 , 10.0, build: 15063 (x64)

Hardware:                                             Inspiron 15-7579, Dell Inc., 0K1J52

CPU:                                                  GenuineIntel Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7200U CPU @ 2.50GHz

Logical processors:                                   4

Processor groups:                                     1

RAM:                                                  8061 MB total

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CPU SPEED

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Reported CPU speed:                                   2712 MHz

Note: reported execution times may be calculated based on a fixed reported CPU speed. Disable variable speed settings like Intel Speed Step and AMD Cool N Quiet in the BIOS setup for more accurate results.

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MEASURED INTERRUPT TO USER PROCESS LATENCIES

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The interrupt to process latency reflects the measured interval that a usermode process needed to respond to a hardware request from the moment the interrupt service routine started execution. This includes the scheduling and execution of a DPC routine, the signaling of an event and the waking up of a usermode thread from an idle wait state in response to that event.

Highest measured interrupt to process latency (µs):   8733.814069

Average measured interrupt to process latency (µs):   9.817836

Highest measured interrupt to DPC latency (µs):       8622.427827

Average measured interrupt to DPC latency (µs):       3.819225

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REPORTED ISRs

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Interrupt service routines are routines installed by the OS and device drivers that execute in response to a hardware interrupt signal.

Highest ISR routine execution time (µs):              4759.351032

Driver with highest ISR routine execution time:       ACPI.sys - ACPI Driver for NT, Microsoft Corporation

Highest reported total ISR routine time (%):          0.050647

Driver with highest ISR total time:                   HDAudBus.sys - High Definition Audio Bus Driver, Microsoft Corporation

Total time spent in ISRs (%)                          0.098989

ISR count (execution time <250 µs):                   2202637

ISR count (execution time 250-500 µs):                0

ISR count (execution time 500-999 µs):                5

ISR count (execution time 1000-1999 µs):              0

ISR count (execution time 2000-3999 µs):              0

ISR count (execution time >=4000 µs):                 0

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REPORTED DPCs

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DPC routines are part of the interrupt servicing dispatch mechanism and disable the possibility for a process to utilize the CPU while it is interrupted until the DPC has finished execution.

Highest DPC routine execution time (µs):              17945.885324

Driver with highest DPC routine execution time:       ACPI.sys - ACPI Driver for NT, Microsoft Corporation

Highest reported total DPC routine time (%):          0.212442

Driver with highest DPC total execution time:         dxgkrnl.sys - DirectX Graphics Kernel, Microsoft Corporation

Total time spent in DPCs (%)                          0.705807

DPC count (execution time <250 µs):                   14749904

DPC count (execution time 250-500 µs):                0

DPC count (execution time 500-999 µs):                25201

DPC count (execution time 1000-1999 µs):              355

DPC count (execution time 2000-3999 µs):              93

DPC count (execution time >=4000 µs):                 0

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REPORTED HARD PAGEFAULTS

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Hard pagefaults are events that get triggered by making use of virtual memory that is not resident in RAM but backed by a memory mapped file on disk. The process of resolving the hard pagefault requires reading in the memory from disk while the process is interrupted and blocked from execution.

Process with highest pagefault count:                 none

Total number of hard pagefaults                       0

Hard pagefault count of hardest hit process:          0

Highest hard pagefault resolution time (µs):          0.0

Total time spent in hard pagefaults (%):              0.0

Number of processes hit:                              0

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PER CPU DATA

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CPU 0 Interrupt cycle time (s):                       260.687857

CPU 0 ISR highest execution time (µs):                4759.351032

CPU 0 ISR total execution time (s):                   15.209072

CPU 0 ISR count:                                      1858658

CPU 0 DPC highest execution time (µs):                17945.885324

CPU 0 DPC total execution time (s):                   104.474733

CPU 0 DPC count:                                      13692032

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CPU 1 Interrupt cycle time (s):                       82.198089

CPU 1 ISR highest execution time (µs):                154.782448

CPU 1 ISR total execution time (s):                   3.037661

CPU 1 ISR count:                                      340310

CPU 1 DPC highest execution time (µs):                2901.933628

CPU 1 DPC total execution time (s):                   14.351758

CPU 1 DPC count:                                      412141

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CPU 2 Interrupt cycle time (s):                       72.046024

CPU 2 ISR highest execution time (µs):                327.858776

CPU 2 ISR total execution time (s):                   0.025923

CPU 2 ISR count:                                      2904

CPU 2 DPC highest execution time (µs):                2075.301991

CPU 2 DPC total execution time (s):                   7.802850

CPU 2 DPC count:                                      430018

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CPU 3 Interrupt cycle time (s):                       73.719930

CPU 3 ISR highest execution time (µs):                74.601401

CPU 3 ISR total execution time (s):                   0.006626

CPU 3 ISR count:                                      771

CPU 3 DPC highest execution time (µs):                1621.489676

CPU 3 DPC total execution time (s):                   3.705381

CPU 3 DPC count:                                      241369

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