Sound Problem in Windows fix

I finally figured out my stupid computer sound problem. Windows thinks there is some kind of communications device asking for control or something and suddenly, for no reason, the sound volume goes down. You can’t quite figure it out. I have my computer with the problem being a Windows 8 Pro new build (by me) and it had several HDMI enabled sound plugins, but that’s nuts, as I only have plugged into one of those HDMI port with my montitor on this install of Win 8.

I uninstalled all of the extra hdmi devices. So I had a few things here and there that were confusing. Mostly I do think it came with the built in sound on the board, a build in HDMI port for the cpu, using 2 video cards with HDMI ports in SLI mode.

I’ve got my monitor plugged into the first video card.

I have a Razor Black Widow keyboard. It has headphone and microphone plugs. Plug into the back of the computer and there on the keyboard you can plug in really easily.

My motherboard has back plugs, but my case also has front controls tied into that sound. For some reason the back just wasn’t working for me. It was something I figured out, to get sound out of the keyboard port. But in my computer it made no sense. No headphone profile.

So I had disabled everything but the one HDMI profile that I was using. Then in Device Manager I scanned for hardware changes. That put back the regular things. Thank God!

So I then made HDMI default.

Then I got my nice headphones, plugged them into the front headphone jack on the computer. In the playback devices window I then made that the default device.

OK!

So when I unplug, Monitor takes over the sound.

But the reduction in volume was still happening. That’s on the Sound window, Communications tab.

Windows can automatically adjust the volume of different sounds when you are using your PC to place or receive telephone calls.

When Windows detects communications activity:

• Mute all other sounds
• Reduce the volume of other sounds by 80%
• Reduce the volume of other sounds by 50%
• Do nothing

To fix the sound thing, select the last option. My was on the second, reducing my sound by 80% for seeming no reason on my end. I had no incoming or outgoing anything going on.

So now it’s set to “DO nothing” and if I want to use Skype or something, then I can control the volume myself manually. Mostly though, I’ll just be using my actual phone. FWIW.

So this isn’t really a fix. I just am using that word since it seems to fix it. It’s just setting the control to nothingness. I don’t know what Windows is thinking, it’d be nice to fix it, but that’s a whole different thing that will only happen if I want to figure it out to keep my music on when making or taking a call… uh, not gonna happen. So forget it. Manual only. Since I know when I want it to go down, and Windows doesn’t know at all.