... hardware connection/disconnection notifications

timeless said:

not trying to do anything related to VSS, it just seems to run allot. now l would have disabled the service, but lm given to understand it is an integral part of system restore which means it is part of the service which creates restore points and such.

You had said that VSS "executed" around the time of the sound. What do you mean exactly by that--what exactly is in the log?

For the last 7 days I have only 10 instances, for Source VSS, of Event ID 8224 "The VSS service is shutting down due to idle timeout."

l just took a gander in the event logs, within mins of receiving the sound and it was one of a few entries that were created around the time the device connection/disconnection sound occurred, cant remember which but l have been randomly receiving the sound, sometimes l get an extra one when l connect an external (a disconnect sound before l connect a drive) and the last couple lve noticed found like something connecting and coincidentally have happened as l randomly walked into my room after grabbing a drink or something.

and only two events under the tree information in the summary box occurred (on the main page of event viewer), the only other frequently occuring event is related to "DHCPv6-Client" and my laptop happens to do that allot without issue so lm sure l can rule that one out.

l can rule out sleeping drives as l have set them not to sleep, one of the first few things l tried. and l do believe l have set (at least within windows settings) usb devices not to power down when not in use.

its just annoying l havent been able to track this issue, l could live with the sounds around the time l was connecting/disconnecting drives but the fact that its been happening without me touching the computer (coincidently randomly ever time lve entered the room so far, its weird), l just hate not being able to resolve an issue, kinda like the annoyance l have with mkv files first one always freezes (if it has subtitles) for a few seconds but lm reasonably sure thats related to the font cache.

its not a smart TV, regardless l was so bothered l reinstalled.. this time l didnt install all the crap that came on the motherboard disk.. lve just done all the drivers that worked for me (installed the intel usb ones rather than the gigabyte ones) l did originally have bsod issues due to ram but a fresh install might give me some relief l guess.

the only gigabyte app lve used is Smart Recovery2, l did use it before but lost the backup due to issues with my external recently and lack of space however lve just created a new clean backup image now lve got space to store it on and off system again. the only thing that leaves is me keeping an eye on things and if it happens again well, lm stumped.

kinda annoyed, the svchost issue l had has seemed to come back... the size is slowly but surely creeping up higher and higher however it might be something to do with the trustedinstaller (winupdate l believe) as the size only starts creeping up after and around when it runs.