How can I disable the unsafe volume warning?

Problem solved. :) My Samsung (Ativ 6 - NP680Z5E) laptop, after putting anything (even a paper clip) into the 1/8th" audio hole and trying to turn up the volume above 39, displays a "loud volume warning" banner that requires interaction before allowing me to move on with whatever task I was doing before hand. After a lot of phone calls, I have found 3 ways to resolve this issue...

1. Sell said Samsung device, and never purchase anything branded Samsung again.

• They made this banner warning happen intentionally, see details below.

2. Uninstall the Realtek audio driver, and let windows control the audio.

• Worked on my machine, but may not work on yours.

3. Use an older driver from Realtek.

• Samsung sucks for making me even look to other OEMs for a driver on a year old machine.

Details-

I have spent many days trying to resolve this issue without losing the many valuable features available from this sound card. The windows driver does a good job of running the Realtek device, however it does not drive it as hard (lower output from device), and the windows driver does not provide access to certain features of this device. EQ is the feature I am most interested in. The EQ allows you to store "presets" which is very handy when going from the car stereo, to home stereo, to portable speakers as all speakers sound different. I frequently use my audio jack for bigger speakers, and not so much headphones.

1. "Sell said Samsung..." This is the best option. I hate having to sell such an investment, $1500 on my end. I spoke with Samsung, even let them remote in. Samsung, in the end, said, " All of our devices do that, and we will not help you disable it." Therefore, selling your Samsung device is the best option as they intentionally did this screeching stop all work of a banner and don't care what you plug into it. They obviously don't care about their customers' needs either. It is better to get out of a bad investment before it costs you more money, sell now.
2. "Uninstall the Realtek audio driver..." From the "uninstall or change a program" section of the "control panel". You will need to restart your machine for the uninstall of the Realtek driver, and placement of the Windows driver. After you uninstall Realtek, and restart, the Windows driver should now be in place and no more banner. Windows had a hand in this too. They are the ones that enabled Samsung and Realtek to do this to us. If Microsoft was any better at customer service than Samsung, they would help us disable it. They know how, they just won't tell us.
3. Use an older driver. I found the Realtek driver 6.0.1.6699 works well on my machine, with no banner. Further more, it does not change the volume based on what whether or not anything is jammed into the hole. It turns out that Realtek had a hand in this too. Realtek has no customer service, and only has their latest driver listed on their website 6.0.1.7xxx. Samsung, Microsoft, and Realtek all had a hand in this bad banner, and none of them are willing to tell me how to make it stop. Samsung, so far as I know, is the only OEM that uses this "banner" portion of Windows and the Realtek driver. Other OEMs, like Sony and Toshiba, use the same Realtek devices and drivers with no banner. This is why I listed "sell device" as the #1 option. Other companies do not practice this bull. After comparing computers, devices, and drivers I found Samsung is ultimately to blame for actually implementing this stupid false sense of security. The people at the EU are way more stupid for coming up with the regulation. This laptop was sold in the US as a US model and should not be held to dumb EU standards. I say dumb because the device has no way of telling what you put in that hole. Seriously, I don't recommend trying it, but a paperclip will trigger this volume banner. Samsung has no drivers on their website, their SWupdate program must be used to obtain any Samsung drivers. I found my copy of 6.0.1.6699 from another OEM. I don't endorse Softpedia.com, and if you use it you do so at your own risk. I used this one...

http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/SOUND-CARD/REALTEK/ASUS-P8B75-V-Realtek-HD-Audio-Driver-6016699-for-Windows-8.shtml

It seems to work well. No banner, full function of the Realtek device (I have EQ! :)), and no other issues on my Samsucks laptop.

Good luck to all. Boycott Samsung whenever possible.

Just uninstall Samsung audio drivers (In my case Realtek) restart and voilá!

Warning is gone, sound working as good as always.

I case you find problems after doing that just look for generic Realtek audio drivers from their website and don't use Samsung ones.

Thanks! Turns out you don't need the manufacturer's programs for anything in modern Windows. Just uninstall Realtek's audio driver from Add or Remove Programs and everything works perfectly.

Looks like a Samasung thing. I first saw it on my Galaxy s3. Very annoying as I rarely plug headphones in to any device I own. I usually plug in a real speaker system, sometimes even concert sound systems (live audio engineer by trade). As soon as I can confirm, I'll update this post. My Samsung laptop, NP680Z5E-X01US does this no matter what I plug into the "headphone jack" and I don't even have to be running audio. From a fresh boot (startup) plug ANYTHING into the hole and try to turn up the volume. DOH! It stops at 39, removes any fullscreen, darks the display, and shows a stripe on top of everything else that says, "High volume can cause hearing loss Your ears are important. Turning up the volume past this point can cause hearing damage." With two options, "allow" and "don't allow" and the warning does not go away until you chose one.

-IF YOU OWN ANY SAMSUNG PRODUCT THAT DOES THIS, CALL 800-SAMSUNG AND COMPLAIN!!!! SAMSUNG WILL CONTINUE TO SCREW US, LIKE THIS, UNTIL WE DO.

Good luck.

Windows, do more, pay less. 

P.S. don't try to remove/rollback drivers on a Samsung computer, it will break it.

Ditto to all posts.  I have noticed this irritating volume warning on my Samsung series 7 all in one PC.  My problem seems to occur when I plug in my wireless headphones transmitter.  The volume problem seems to rotate around 41%.  If I increase the volume it goes up, if I go below it then increase it the warning pops up.   I get it on Windows Media Player and Xbox Music as well unless I disconnect the wireless transmitter USB from the PC.  Since I listen to the wireless headphones ( a cheap set ) then this is a real nuisance.

Yes this only happens when my speakers are plugged in and it warns me at precisely 42 on the volume control and if I lower the volume below and try to increase it again it warns me again!

My computer is a Samsung NP3530EC now running the Windows 8.1 update.

I don't remember encountering this volume problem before the 8.1 update.

My speakers are Model EMC2.0 by Diamond Audio for Gateway (powered by mains, not USB)

I haven't installed any third party audio manager software.

I am wary of uninstalling audio drivers as I accidently did that on my last laptop and I encountered several problems!