Fucking Windows sporadically gets into an endless loop of playing the sound of a USB device plugged in and out. It requires one or two reboots to fix it. I’ve tried everything, nothing else helps.

It forgot sounds on when watching machine porn

Sounds like you have a loose pcim card or you have hardware going bad.

Check all your hardware connections and try to remove some of it.

@sariel doesn't it make that sound when you create a virtual device? Could be driver fault too?

@sariel Did that already

@netikras that's a good point.

It could also be malware trying to mount a virtual device to run packaged code as well. It's one way to get around the windows scans before the payload is delivered.

@sariel I *think* this sound is played when a PnP device is plugged in. I see no reason it couldn't be some virtual pnp device.. Or some actual pnp dev got a driver update [with windows updates] and is now running in circles. Or there is an actual hw fault, like some loose usb connection and moving its wire makes it sporadicaly dis-/connect.

Need to monitor the devices' list at DevicesAndServices to find the culprit.

Welcome to hell.

Although I would take the noise over actually reconnecting devices for no good reason.

https://devrant.com/rants/5175825/...

What I’ve tried:

Plugging all usb devices into other, previously unused usb slots.

When the loop starts, unplugging all usb devices. The loop doesn’t stop.

Can you see anything relevant in the event viewer? https://tenforums.com/drivers-hardw...

@rEaL-jAsE nope. See things that I’ve tried.