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cpro

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I have been struggling with trying to find a fix for this for a long time now. I have searched various forums and tried the couple suggestions that seemed to be offered for similar issues but nothing has worked. I have no other serious issues with W7 but this is REALLY annoying and making me want to re-install XP.

Regardless of what I'm doing my volume level continuously changes. It's too loud..then too quiet. Sometimes it's fine for long periods then other times it changes every 5-10 seconds. It does this all on it's own with me doing NOTHING! I have tried putting the setting in the sound communications tab to "do nothing" and have also disabled all sound effects in the speaker properties to eliminate that loudness equalization option but nothing has worked. This also happens in a wide variety of programs so I doubt this is an application problem. It happens in several games, it happens watching Youtube videos and happens randomly with any number of websites with sound. It goes so quiet I can't hear so I turn it up..then 10 seconds later the volume goes back to where it was and blasts my eardrums out. I can't keep the volume at a steady level and it's DRIVING ME INSANE! Hlep!

BTW, I'm using W7 64 bit with onboard Realtek HD sound. I should also have all updated drivers as far as I know. Anyone have any info on this? :cry:
 

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I'm also experiencing this problem.
I'm not sure if it's the drivers problem or the recent update for RealTek Drivers.
It gets really frustrating, plus given the fact my computer recently crashes and restarts randomly ever since I updated my realtek driver.
RealTek and/or Microsoft needs to address these sound issues ASAP.
I know I'm not the only that wishes not to upgrade to Windows 7 if I knew the problems and issues that were going to come with them.
 

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Yes, I am having the exact same problem. I uploaded a video of it for others to help identify what the problem is.



The issue is that the sliders are moving up and down automatically, causing the sound levels to change by themselves. It's VERY annoying, and I'm hoping somebody will be able to find a fix.
 

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nobody has any ideas on this? :cry:
 

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Well, just so you don;t think noone is paying attention...

There is a feature where windows will mute sounds by 80% if it thinks you are getting an incoming telephone call. If comething were confusing that... You can turn that off by right clicking your speaker icon and selecting "Communications" and "Do Nothing". See if that stops it.
 

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Like I said in the OP..I have already set that to "do nothing" but it hasn't helped. :(
 

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Hmm, ok I missed that. But there may be some other piece of "smart" software like Skype or something that is also messing with the volume when it really shouldn't be :/

Some drivers also have a loudness control or volume leveling feature but I don't think that is a default Windows feature, at least I can't find it now but I remember seeing it once.

Other than that it almost sounds like a prank virus or something :(
 

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Same problem here. Exactly as cpro described. I've also changed the telephone setting to do nothing but no help. I have Asus p5q-vm do motherboard with VIA VT1705 6 -Channel High Definition Audio and I've tried every driver I have found. I've also tried without drivers (with windows "default" drivers) but no luck. I use the computer to watch tv so this problem is really getting to my nerves. I haven't played any games or used the computer to anything else so I can't really say does the problem occur on any other situation. I had XP on the same system before with the same TV-program (DvbViewer) and I didn't have any problems. Please help.
 

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I have been monitoring my sound sliders and mine don't actually change even though my sound does. So unlike the video posted above my sound just gets quiet without the slider actually moving (that I can tell). It also seems to do this randomly because I can go days with never noticing it and then for 1-2 days it happens constantly. Like I said in the OP it happens when I'm gaming and other times watching random Internet videos. As an example of how random it is I noticed that it happened at the beginning of this video so I started the video over to see if it would happen at the same spot of the video (at the beginning)..but it didn't happen at all the second time I watched it. This is VERY frustrating! :(
 

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This is a problem that, seemingly, only affects users of on-board sound. The only real advice is to see if there are any updated sound drivers; or get a sound card.
 

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cpro said:
I have been monitoring my sound sliders and mine don't actually change even though my sound does. So unlike the video posted above my sound just gets quiet without the slider actually moving (that I can tell). It also seems to do this randomly because I can go days with never noticing it and then for 1-2 days it happens constantly. Like I said in the OP it happens when I'm gaming and other times watching random Internet videos. As an example of how random it is I noticed that it happened at the beginning of this video so I started the video over to see if it would happen at the same spot of the video (at the beginning)..but it didn't happen at all the second time I watched it. This is VERY frustrating! :(
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There's two common scenarios that can change volume.

Right click on the Microsoft speaker icon in the taskbasr, select "Playback Devices".
Select the Communications tab, select... "Do Nothing". Select Apply.

Do as above except instead of selecting the communications, select your default output device in the main window then click on the Properties button.
Select the Enhancements tab, scroll down the list of enhancements until you reach "Loudness Equalization", de-select that option.

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On my behalf thanks for the answers. I've done all that has been suggested and now we wait. Yesterday went without problems, but as cpro stated the problem may sometimes stay away a few days. I've noticed that usually the volume only goes down (like 9 times from 10) but sometimes it first goes down and the up and so on.. And my volume slider(s) really moves. If this happens and I go and lift the slider up again it might stay there a few minutes and then it comes down again. Or it might stay there a few days. I haven't been able to find any one situation that could be reproduced so that volume would always do the same. So again, same situation as cpro had. Bill2 posted a link that had some good advices. I actually first had the Realtek Manager installed and I also tried disabling the front jack detection, but that didin't help.

So in my case the "fixes" that didn't help are:
-Disabling Voice recognition,
-Telephone call - Do nothing,
-Disable all enhancements,
-Disable Realtek front jack detection,
-uninstall all third party programs and drivers,
-install newest third party drivers

Some mixes of the above might do the trick but there's quite many different choises..
 

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I don't even use Skype. :|
 

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Thanks for the Skype tip, but don't have it.

Small update on the situation. Volume has been still for the past 2-3 days so it's looking good for me. We'll see..
 

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Volume has been "stable" for about 3 weeks now so I guess the problem is solved at my part. Sadly I cannot say what did the trick exactly but the answer is in this thread. Thanks for the answers and good look for everyone else with this problem.
 

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Mine comes and goes. I sometimes think it's gone and then a week or two later it returns. Very frustrating.
 

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Fix :D

cpro said:
I have been struggling with trying to find a fix for this for a long time now. I have searched various forums and tried the couple suggestions that seemed to be offered for similar issues but nothing has worked. I have no other serious issues with W7 but this is REALLY annoying and making me want to re-install XP.

Regardless of what I'm doing my volume level continuously changes. It's too loud..then too quiet. Sometimes it's fine for long periods then other times it changes every 5-10 seconds. It does this all on it's own with me doing NOTHING! I have tried putting the setting in the sound communications tab to "do nothing" and have also disabled all sound effects in the speaker properties to eliminate that loudness equalization option but nothing has worked. This also happens in a wide variety of programs so I doubt this is an application problem. It happens in several games, it happens watching Youtube videos and happens randomly with any number of websites with sound. It goes so quiet I can't hear so I turn it up..then 10 seconds later the volume goes back to where it was and blasts my eardrums out. I can't keep the volume at a steady level and it's DRIVING ME INSANE! Hlep!

BTW, I'm using W7 64 bit with onboard Realtek HD sound. I should also have all updated drivers as far as I know. Anyone have any info on this? :cry:
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i found a fix that works for mine, i clicked on my speaker and in the pop up volume control i clicked the speaker and Speakers/Headphones Properties and under the Enhancements tab i checked Bass Booster And Loudness Equalization and it has been working great so far. i literally got this computer 6 hours ago and had the problem and about 5 minutes ago i did that out of curiousity, it worked :D :cool:
 

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