LogFAQs > #882298782

It's a brand new gaming laptop, and I've spent most of the last 3 days installing/updating/fixing settings/etc. So there's a pretty good chance that I accidentally turned on some notification or something that I don't remember.

But when I'm playing a game (both Witcher 3 and Subnautica, so it's not coming from the game itself) it will play a notification-style chime every 3-5 minutes or so. Sometimes it'll do it twice about 10 seconds apart and then take another 3-5 minutes for the next chime. It's really annoying, and kind of kills the experience when it's going off in the middle of cutscenes or a tense fight with 5 ghouls.

Thing is, I know it's also not from Steam because it's still chiming when I'm just browsing GameFAQs and Steam isn't even open (nor running in the background). But it does it about half as frequently. Maybe about 10 minutes between chimes when I'm not playing a game.

For reference, it's the chime titled "Windows Background" in the Sound properties. It's assigned to 5 different things all under Windows:

1. Asterisk
2. Default Beep
3. Exclamation
4. Low Battery Alarm
5. System Notification

Obviously I can rule out the Low Battery Alarm easily, since I'm plugged into the wall and the battery itself is at 96%. But the other 4 are literally about the broadest possible categories you can think of. I don't even know where to start trying to figure out what's causing it. -_-
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