Recently my windows 7 computer makes the "hardware added" prompt noise and lags everything out.

[powersupplywoes]

It does this at random times between every 20 minutes to an hour. It's killing me in games when the lag randomly occurs due to this. I ran my paid for Avast virus scan found some apparently unrelated minor viruses, I did a check disk (it was fine) and defragged my hard drive all to no avail.

The only thing I can think of that I have installed recently is the Elder Scrolls Online Beta. This has been going on for a couple of weeks and it's starting to drive me nuts mostly from the mystery and the consequences of sudden lag spikes. I greatly appreciate any and all help!

Edit: It is apparently making the noise that occurs when you add hardware. However, nothing pops up and I can't tell what it is that is causing it. Is there a way to track this somehow? Nothing pops up when the noise occurs.

 

[Austin R]

Try going into safemode and check what you have starting up, it could be a FUD virus or some program randomly trying to start up and failing to do so.
Any windows error logs you can show?

 

[powersupplywoes]

Try going into safemode and check what you have starting up, it could be a FUD virus or some program randomly trying to start up and failing to do so.
Any windows error logs you can show?

I can try and do that, I'm not getting any windows error logs so I can't show any.

 

[Austin R]

Did that work or are you still having issues?

 

[powersupplywoes]

Did that work or are you still having issues?

I'm still having issues and I have no idea what's causing it. Totally intermittant and random. I'm almost certain its some sort of hardware issue.

 

[powersupplywoes]

I figured it out, It was a USB headset that is now slightly off from my 5 year old son yanking on it. It does it periodically when the headset is plugged in.