On my PC, Windows 8 keeps playing the Device Connect sound (Windows Hardware Insert.wav) - a slightly discordant sequence of 3 notes. This is at least every 1-2 minutes, but can be up to every ten seconds.
This happens even after I've unplugged everything.
There's nothing in the Event Viewer about this, and there are no highlighted devices in the Device Manager. What can I do to figure out what the problem is?
(I'm hoping there's some information I can get out of Windows. I don't particularly want to go through some trial-and-error process of disabling/uninstalling devices, or similar.)
Answer
I had further problems with USB devices disconnecting themselves, making restoring my backups from my USB hard drive very difficult. So out of desperation I installed the motherboard manufacturer's Windows 8 drivers, all of which are marked as beta, and all of which predate Windows 8. I wasn't therefore expecting much, but in this particular case, installing the audio driver seems to have fixed the problem. No more annoying noises and no more randomly-disconnecting USB devices.
My PC's motherboard is an Asus P8Z68-V PRO/GEN3. Perhaps this will help somebody else with the same motherboard, and the same problem.
I suppose the lesson is that even beta drivers can be better than the Windows default ones...
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