Sound mutes and unmutes itself

[blackroseMD1]

OK, so I've been having this problem for about a week now, and it's getting worse.

Randomly, my sound will mute/unmute itself, sometimes several times in a row. I'm using my onboard Realtek HD Audio with the newest drivers. . I was thinking it may have something to do with my Microsoft multimedia keyboard/mouse combo, so I uninstalled Intellitype 7.0, but the problem still persists.

Also, I've noticed that when I test the sound on my 5.1 speakers, the sounds come out of the wrong speakers (Subwoofer sound comes out of center speaker etc.).

Any ideas?

 

[not so gray matter]

This may sound stupid, but if your sub-woofer sound is coming out of your central speaker, are you certain you have all of the 3.5mm plugs in the correct slots?

 

[blackroseMD1]

This may sound stupid, but if your sub-woofer sound is coming out of your central speaker, are you certain you have all of the 3.5mm plugs in the correct slots?

Yeah, that was actually the first thing I checked...all the plugs are plugged in correctly on the back side of the subwoofer as well.

 

[GixxerGirl]

Did you resolve your issue? My issue is similar but started out slowly and only today has made the system unusable. Actually, it started out only being the mute 1x a day, then more frequently, and now some .dll file is attempting to open itself every 5 seconds or so. It started out opening Windows Media Player (my default player) so I disabled the player and now I get the "Caution, You are attempting to open a file of type 'Application extension' (.dll)..."

I have run several virus and spyware checks and my system has been clean. I have no idea where to go from there. I have read several forums and tried many suggestions aside from reflashing the hard drive and reinstalling windows.

Has anyone has any luck solving this??

 

[blackroseMD1]

For me, it turned out to be my wireless keyboard going haywire. Have you tried using MalwareBytes to do a boot scan?

 

[karlsnooks]

Did you resolve your issue? My issue is similar but started out slowly and only today has made the system unusable. Actually, it started out only being the mute 1x a day, then more frequently, and now some .dll file is attempting to open itself every 5 seconds or so. It started out opening Windows Media Player (my default player) so I disabled the player and now I get the "Caution, You are attempting to open a file of type 'Application extension' (.dll)..."

I have run several virus and spyware checks and my system has been clean. I have no idea where to go from there. I have read several forums and tried many suggestions aside from reflashing the hard drive and reinstalling windows.

Has anyone has any luck solving this??

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