*UPDATE - LOL... shot myself in the foot real bad... the default IO's were ASIO, my creative X-Fi only uses WDM... so once I fixed that... voila!
Chiming in here... I not only get a failure at the UI notification but endup with a BSOD error stating DPC_WATCHDOG_VIOLATION (with the resultant forced restart)
I've tried updating hard drive drivers, but I don't have iastor anywhere.
I've attached my sysinfo file (memory.dmp is too big)
'preciate the feedback
sysinfo.txt