USB Connect & Disconnect Noise going off constantly!

[Pepperkeet]

Hey guys, so I've basically been having this USB Connect/Disconnect noise going off constantly for about a week.
The only big thing I did was install a RX480 on my rig. I thought it was the videocard so I checked it on another computer but that's not the case.

So I tried Eventghost and basically noticed this is the event I'm seeing take place constantly

System.DeviceRemoved [u'\\\\?\\DISPLAY#SNYC603#5&d6a6501&2&UID265#{e6f07b5f-ee97-4a90-b076-33f57bf4eaa7}']
System.DeviceAttached [u'\\\\?\\DISPLAY#SNYC603#5&d6a6501&2&UID265#{e6f07b5f-ee97-4a90-b076-33f57bf4eaa7}']

Obviously now I know it's not my USB but my monitor... so I changed the HDMI cable from the videocard to the monitor and nothing...
It's still doing it... any ideas what I can try to solve this? Most of the Google Search Options that pop up have not worked for me
or basically once i reboot the PC the beeping comes back again...

[kgschlosser]

ok. little bit of how windows works and how it knows a monitor is attached...



there is a single wire in DVI-D and HDMI that is used to transmit Extended Display Identification Data or EDID for short. this is used so the video card knows things like what's the max resolution and refresh rate. but also so windows knows what monitor is attached and what driver if any to use for said monitor...

the issue you are having can occur from a couple of things.

1: Bad Cable
2: Bad Video Card(not usual)
3 Bad Monitor(happens but less rare then video card being bad)
4: Faulty Driver(usually the case)

so we can rule out a couple of things here buy changing the cable...
change the cable type... (from HDMI to DVI-D or if possible VGA)
if the problem disappears after this is done we know it was either the cable or the physical port on the monitor or card

we can change out the monitor and see if the problem occurs. if it still does then we narrowed it down to the video card or the drivers

I have also seen where people will purchase a new component for their pc and it manages to tilt the power supply just over it's tipping point for being too small.. this actually occurs quite often and the EDID is extremely voltage sensitive. check the rated wattage on you power supply, also see if it has more then one "rail" to break this down nice and simple if you power supply has 4 rails then it's like having 4 power supplies just in one box. now they don't make all these smaller power supplys put out the same power. and if you have to much on one rail problems will occur.

but look at your wattage rating also. and then times that number by .60 the reason for this is because most power supplies fall into the 80% efficiency rating meaning that it will turn 20% of the power draw into heat and not wattage.. and heat is baddd... so i typically don't like to go more then 60% of the rated wattage for 2 reasons... you will start to get voltage drop the closer you get to it's rated wattage. and i really hate hearing the power supply fan going nuts.

if you power supply is too small you can have just enough voltage drop where you will get strange issues. and they will come and go depending on load and what you have plugged in to the usb... things of that nature..

so don't rule that out either....

but go and remove all of the drivers i mean Uninstall them... and have the PC go back to VGA

and then download updated ones and install them and see how goes from there..


usually the drivers are what i would go after first. then start checking cables and power supplies... then swapping monitor..


but to be honest with you i really am thinking to small a power supply.

say with a 6 core machine and 8 gigs memory and ssd HDD and Sata HDD dvd, and all of the onboard devices.. as well as the bucket load of USB's and devices you can plug into them now can go upwards of 1amp per device. with the video card... you really should be no smaller then a 600 a 500 ehhh it will work but it's driving the PS over that 60% rule i have but only by a pinch.

it could also be the card is not seated 100%. change the pcie slot put it in and out of the slot a few times.. dust does get in there...

but ati does have infamously problematic drivers. so go to a version of the driver before the last if you are in fact using the latest.

One other thing. if you happen to have any kind of on board video. turn the thing off. or make sure you set the bios to use the video card in the pcie slot instead. never try and link the 2. even if it states you can. i have always had problems with that working properly

i am still really thinking it is an under powered PS