Volume goes low when plugging USB In/Out

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Weird one this.

Whenever I either plug in or pull out a USB device, the volume has dropped to nearly silent.

I have had the Volume mixer displaying everything, and I saw that I had 4 sliders.

Speakers | System Sounds | Adobe Flash Player | Firefox

And I set them all to 50% just now, and when I plugged a Flash Drive in, the System Sounds and Adobe ones, both dropped to 6%
I reset them back to 50% and then I pulled it out and they both dropped again, this time to 20%
Then a third test and the Adobe one only flickered a tiny bit while the System Sounds one dropped all the way down.

This is happening all the time and its piddling me right off.

Anyone have any clues?

Win 8 Pro. 64Bit. SB Recon3D SoundCard
 
Look in the Advanced tab for Sound for your default device. Untick 'allow applications exclusive priority'

Or something like that
 
Interestingly, I just taken the 2xnVidia cards out of my PC and put the single ATI back in. ( Cannot justify 2 big powerful cards in a PC when I can no longer play half the games I like to )
I also put in a PCI Firewire card instead of the PCIE one as a test because the PCIE one is a cheap and nasty while the PCI one is a good one, and my Firewire MAUDIO card has started sounding funky, and well... I just did some other bits ok?

And anyway, I opened up Thunderbird, it bleeped the you have Email bleep and while it did this, it was drowned out as if the volume turned down. Quick check and sure enough, the volume for the steam client was turned down.

The main volume ( so far ) never gets affected, but the System sounds and whatever else is there is.

I have never noticed the Firefox one get affected either, but thats always been on the end and as the main volume being on the left end, does that mean only the middle ones get affected? Ah, I dont know either?

Now, when I dod open the mixer thingy, I also noticed that when it played a sound to say that something was found, it also dropped the volume then too!

So, its clear that any system sound will practically drop the volume.

And yeah, not seen it before and Im absolutely stumped. I think I iwll simply turn off system sounds for a bit... At least then I will be able to play my por... Erm, my Youtube videos and music etc without having to keep turning the volume back up.
 
You've checked the communication tab in the Playback Devices part of the Sound control panel?

It defaults to reduce the volume of other sounds by a certain percentage when a comms device is plugged in.
 
BloodyL said:
You've checked the communication tab in the Playback Devices part of the Sound control panel?

It defaults to reduce the volume of other sounds by a certain percentage when a comms device is plugged in.
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If this works I shall worship you.

It's been doing my nut and I just assumed it was another quirk with ASUS's dodgy drivers in Windows 8.



I'd just taken to pausing or muting the volume for whatever program was using sound whilst I was plugging or unplugging my phone.
 
Stupidly, what you ask, is the same as Bledds is it not?

Anyway, I have had another look at ALL the Sound Mixer settings and sure enough, Iwas wrong, they are 2 different things.

In the Properties-Advanced Tab, I first used the "Allow apps to take exclusive control of this device" and this is what I assumed Bledd meant and it is the one I first fiddlied with.

However yes, I have also had another fiddle about and I find the one you referred to and sure enough there it was, in the communications tab. Its radio button selection is now set to "do nowt"

Thanks to both you and bledd for this.

Doing my nut in it was.
 
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