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Here's a hopefully comprehensive list of what happens (this is the Microsoft forums so I expect you guys will read a lot of information):
The sound on my USB PnP sound device randomly cuts out for no reason. It is not being touched at all, and it happens a lot when I'm not even listening to any sound.
Before it goes out, it makes a fuzzy sound in the headphones like it is being unplugged or the cord is being cut or something. I have to unplug it and plug it back in a few times for it to work.
It's been working properly for several months, it just this month started doing this, for about a week.
I cannot use my headphone jack because it is loose. I got the usb device to solve this problem because it's too expensive to get the jack fixed. I didn't buy the device first hand, I got it from a family member who took my laptop in to get it fixed, and the guy there recommended and sold us two of these jacks.
When it goes out during a game, I cannot get the sound to return. I can sometimes fix it on a game (like Portal 2, for example) by going into options and changing the sound type (or whatever it's called) from headphones to speakers, then back to headphones. However, the game often freezes when the sound goes out and I have to remove the usb, and in that case the game also has to be restarted. Plus, not everything has sound options like that.
This happens randomly, but it tends to happen every five minutes or every few seconds, and coincidentally it almost always happens during a loading screen on a video game.
It doesn't always give me a warning sound, especially on games. It just goes silent.
The device manager does not show an exclamation point or question mark next to any sound device and the usb pnp device is listed properly. In the sound options in control panel, there are sound bars next to the usb device that shows that sound is playing, but it isn't actually playing. The usb pnp device is listed as the default device, so don't tell me to do that. The microphones are disabled as well.
It does the same thing in all my usb ports.
The driver is up to date and meant for Windows 7.
I do not install Windows Updates. Updates are evil.
The box for it calls it a 'USB External Stereo Audio Adapter' by StarTech.com, or 'ICUSBAUDIO'. It came with a disk which I used to install the driver, and I went to their website to get one for Windows 7 specifically and installed that.
I'm running a Windows 7 64-bit laptop. In device manager, there are three things listed under sound: Realtek High Definition Audio, Intel(R) Display Audio, and USB PnP Sound Device. None of the USB devices have exclamation points.
For the first time today, when the usb made it's unplugging sound, my computer told me 'Device not recognized' and said it might have malfunctioned; when I clicked on it for more info, it said it couldn't tell me what the usb even was because it was not plugged in, which wasn't true. I also had a window show up that tried to install the device driver (it's already installed) and then told me the device had been unplugged before it could do so (not true). The latter just happened a couple seconds ago, for the second time today.