Windows 10: How to identify annoying notification sounds

It was one of these from Ebay. Couldn't find much on Amazon at the time.

Thanks for the help and toDatapod too for the USB suggestion that pointed me in the right direction.

 

Pleased to have been of assistance.

 

EBay? OUCH! I don't bother with that place any more as well as price shop all over once I have something specific picked out. So far I haven't actually seen much difference when trying things out on a 3.0 flash drive compared to a similar 2.0 version of the same model when booting live as far as how fast things load up. I even plugged the 3.0 drives into the 7 port hub and know you won't be losing out on much! The quality of the hub as well as the usb devices is what counts!

 

Just wondering if your still having this problem or you found a fix? I upgraded from Windows 7 to 10 a few weeks ago. About a week after I upgraded I started to hear a notification sound during startup, which I assumed must be devices connecting/disconnecting.. the sound I hear is mainly the disconnect sound. It seems to stop after all the devices or services have started, but it's very annoying for the first 10-20 minutes. I haven't noticed the sound event happening after my PC has been on for some time, so I think it's confined to the startup sequence. I haven't been able to find anything helpful on the web, and then came across this post. Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

 

No further problems since ditching the cheap USB hub. Hope you find the answer.

 

Thanks for the update, I've started experimenting with all of my USB devices. I also have a cheap hub.. that's first!
Cheers

 

Hi there.
I am having the same problems, it´s driving me mad also. When I have my e-Sata external drive connected I hear the plug and unplug sound and sometimes the drive disapears and I have to turn it of and on to be recognized again. It´s very anoying, could it be the drive no getting enough power or something, like a defective power cable?

Cheers

 

I was getting random Device Connect and Device Disconnect sounds and no notifications or messages as to why. My USB printer was connected but turned off so the only other connected devices were my monitor, speakers, keyboard (PS/2) and USB mouse.

Disabling/enabling options did nothing to stop the sounds. I turned off all Notifications & actions, AutoPlay and the USB "Notify me if there are issues connecting to USB devices" option and my computer still made the Device Connect and Device Disconnect sounds.

After playing with it for a while I noticed that the random sound occurred when moving my USB mouse but the sound did not happen every time I moved the mouse. I found that by just moving the mouse around I could make the Windows Device Connect and Disconnect sounds play and even several times in a row by moving the mouse around quickly or erratically.

The USB mouse was working correctly other than not being able to wake the computer from sleep even though it was set to do so in Device Manager. I switched it out for another Dell 5 button mouse and have not heard the random sounds since then (other than when I actually connect or disconnect a device). The replacement mouse also wakes the computer from sleep mode.

I found several posts where the random sounds were caused by a USB device. Either a USB cable, a USB mouse or a USB3 hub. I suspect for most people who are getting these random connect and disconnect sounds it is because of a USB device but not always, see this device connect/disconnect thread. I would start with disconnecting or replacing your USB devices, including built-in memory card readers, one at a time until the random sound stops, that device should be the culprit.