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Thanks for your reply, but now the problem has been solved. The first time I created the bootable USB stick with Rufus and after all the problems I decided to redo it with Pendrivelinux. That seemed to work, booted at the first attempt. Don't ask me why, when I used Rufus I was able to boot on my PC, but not on my laptop.

I'm using Prema's BIOS for quite a while now, they're great! Today I wanted to boot Linux from a USB stick, but I didn't succeed. The Bootable USB stick shows up in the boot menu but after selecting it, it proceeds with my normal OS. I tried to play a bit with the BIOS settings, without succes. The USB stick is bootable, because I've also tested on my desktop PC. Anyone has any idea why it didn't work?

Hi all, A while ago I noticed that my laptop started to make a popping sound. At the beginning I wasn't sure what was causing it, first I thought it was the harddisk. Later it seemed to come from the speakers, but to be sure it wasn't the harddisk, I installed a new SSD and removed the orignal harddisk. Unfortunately the problem wasn't solved with the SSD installed. Moments when the popping sound occurs: - during booting. - at random in the OS. - while muting/unmuting by clicking on the speaker symbol. Later I tried with headphones, the popping sound was hearable through it. I tried a lot of different drivers too, all seemed to have the same problem. Any idea what's causing this? Maybe a hardware failure? Regards