How to completely disable laptop sound?
- by Alvaro Rodriguez
I have a HP Pavillion DV7 laptop with win 8 pro.
The laptop has an unidentified problem with sound drivers or hardware that sometimes causes volume to constantly jiggle up and down. This is very annoying because of these consequences:
Renders mute unusable - as the volume changes the sound unmutes automatically
Causes an annoying win 8 "surface UI" notification to appear constantly in the upper left corner, which is distracting enough by itself, but more importantly
Renders the whole "surface UI" unusable, because it loses focus whenever the sound changing notification appears
When the jiggling happens, the laptop also loses the ability to redirect sound to earphones - sound comes out of the speakers even if earphones are connected.
To solve these issues I want to completely disable sound in the laptop (I've tried reinstalling drivers several times to no end).
I have tried disabling all sound related drivers and devices in the Device Manager but Windows re-enables those automatically whenever I restart the laptop. The BIOS doesn't have any settings to disable sound hardware either.
Please don't suggest having the laptop sound serviced or fixed. It's not worth the expense. I just want to remove sound support so I can use it normally. It is very unusable as it is now.
