Hmm, not wanting to add another change/variable I would leave the drivers for now.
Is there anything in the Windows event log to give us a clue?
Still feels like a USB issue, until of course it's proved otherwise
Windows Updates seem to be working, as I have gotten several updates the past couple of weeks, though those 3 earlier failed updates are still missing.
I updated my Audio-gd NFB-28 DAC's firmware and driver. This has mostly eliminated the static "pop" sound after the audio stopping, if I hear anything (mostly I do NOT), it is a faint "pop" compared the the loud "crack" before.
I checked for new USB controller drivers, but upon checking, my PC said that I had the best driver.
Today, after MC behaving badly (comes in clusters), I tried changing the Output (normally use ASIO):
WASAPI: similar audio stop, manually have to Stop and then Play to resume music
Default Audio Device [Direct Sound]: instantaneously stopped and automatically resumed (~1sec), but audio was "confused" with timing wrong
audio-gd USB audio [Direct Sound]: BSoD
After BSoD, I finally got an Event 100 (which does not mean much to me) in the Event Viewer, details below:
+ System
- Provider
[ Name] Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance
[ Guid] {CFC18EC0-96B1-4EBA-961B-622CAEE05B0A}
EventID 100
Version 2
Level 1
Task 4002
Opcode 34
Keywords 0x8000000000010000
- TimeCreated
[ SystemTime] 2014-11-27T19:21:52.836721600Z
EventRecordID 571
- Correlation
[ ActivityID] {02EF8C48-F800-0001-224B-CB0C770AD001}
- Execution
[ ProcessID] 1716
[ ThreadID] 2844
Channel Microsoft-Windows-Diagnostics-Performance/Operational
Computer Z400-PC
- Security
[ UserID] S-1-5-19
- EventData
BootTsVersion 2
BootStartTime 2014-11-27T19:19:22.578000100Z
BootEndTime 2014-11-27T19:21:47.677426500Z
SystemBootInstance 77
UserBootInstance 66
BootTime 143787
MainPathBootTime 63314
BootKernelInitTime 13
BootDriverInitTime 274
BootDevicesInitTime 3999
BootPrefetchInitTime 0
BootPrefetchBytes 0
BootAutoChkTime 0
BootSmssInitTime 7379
BootCriticalServicesInitTime 4980
BootUserProfileProcessingTime 1449
BootMachineProfileProcessingTime 0
BootExplorerInitTime 26813
BootNumStartupApps 14
BootPostBootTime 80473
BootIsRebootAfterInstall false
BootRootCauseStepImprovementBits 0
BootRootCauseGradualImprovementBits 0
BootRootCauseStepDegradationBits 0
BootRootCauseGradualDegradationBits 0
BootIsDegradation false
BootIsStepDegradation false
BootIsGradualDegradation false
BootImprovementDelta 0
BootDegradationDelta 0
BootIsRootCauseIdentified false
OSLoaderDuration 1996
BootPNPInitStartTimeMS 13
BootPNPInitDuration 4032
OtherKernelInitDuration 3167
SystemPNPInitStartTimeMS 7139
SystemPNPInitDuration 241
SessionInitStartTimeMS 7441
Session0InitDuration 3322
Session1InitDuration 234
SessionInitOtherDuration 3822
WinLogonStartTimeMS 14821
OtherLogonInitActivityDuration 20230
UserLogonWaitDuration 1311