Windows 8 constantly plays the Device Connect sound [duplicate]

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.)

I had a similar issue before, I thought it was a software problem too because I thought I unplugged everything. Turned out that I still had my monitor's USB hub connected (with no devices connected to the monitor's USB ports). It seems that it had a faulty port; whenever the desk shook a bit, the noise would play. Disconnecting it fixed it for me.

In "Advance Power Options" you need to disable USB selective suspend settings

To do this, click:

• Power Options
• USB Settings
• USB selective suspend settings
• Switch to: disable

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...

I have the same problem with Windows 8 except it plays the device disconnect sound. Three tones down, it's even more depressing.

I disabled all notifications in the Modern UI configuration but it did not work. Eventually, I found a solution: I right-clicked on the speaker icon in the taskbar, click "Sound" entry. In the dropdown menu, I changed from "Default Windows Sounds" to "No sounds".

The good: no need to choose between annoying sound and no musics or films. The drawback is if you like to have sound notifications.

Try to go to the Control Panel > Ease of Access Center > Use text or visual alternatives for sound The

Click turn on visual notifications for sounds and click none for visual warning. Hit apply.

(Mine was set to 'Flash Active Window')

Hope this helps