Weird 3-tone sound while general use of PC w/ Win 8.1

Klatt3n

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Hey guys,

my girlfriend recently (yesterday) bought a brand new computer with Windows 8.1. Long story short; while she's browsing, doing every-day stuff, at no definite interval, the computer plays an odd 3 tone sound that goes from a high tone to a lower, and the third one even lower than that. It occurs randomly, as often as several times per minute, to one time per five-ten minutes. From the "feel" of the sound I'd say it's a notification from an app running in the background, but I can't locate it. It also lags the mouse input for a really short time when played (some milliseconds).

I myself have a Surface RT with 8.1, but I've never heard that specific sound before. Any ideas?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 7
Nevermind, I figured it out. Windows 8 obviously has a new hardware connect/disconnect sound compared to Windows 7 and the mouse is the culprit. It's has a bad cable and disconnects half often, causing the hardware disconnect sound to play.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 7
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