Unknown disconnecting device
A while ago I could hear Microsoft Windows warning me with a sound alert of a device disconnecting and immediately reconnecting. I wasn’t able to identify the device that was causing this. The first thing I tried was to check in the Device Manager to see if I could understand what device it was about. No luck. The actual Device Manager behaviour in this case was a continuous refresh of the device list each time Windows was also playing the sound connect/disconnect notification
Right. Speaking to the Device Manager did not work. The information I was looking for was related to the connection and disconnection time of each device. I eventually found out that the Device Manager View Utility was actually able to display this information. All I had to do was to run it, order by the Connect Time and/or Disconnect Time column and I was eventually able to identify the device causing the triggering of the sound alarm
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Hope this helps you too in identifying the disconnecting device. What you will do with it next depends on your findings: it might be about a cable in need of fixing, some drivers to be taken care of or something else