Might not be the most elegant solution, but zipties work.  Just get four of them and make a bracket of sorts out of them.  

Gotta be honest, had to fight the urge many times to just grab the darn thing and fling it against the wall.   I've actually honestly given up by this point.  Switched over to my onboard for the last few days while I decide exactly what I want to do.  To answer your suggestions though...

Thinking of different things I can try at this point and been considering either simply getting a different self-powered usb dac to see whether the problem persists, or changing to a different connection type.  For example SPDIF. I currently have the older original Modi with just USB, but the...

So the problem came back.  It was seemingly resolved for a day or two once I changed the power settings in both device manager and by editing the registry but that could have honestly been a fluke.  Everyday since then, its been the same.  Boot up, doesn't recognize, and I have to dick around...

So as it turns out, I think the issue was Windows power management which is odd to say the least.  After failing to get it to work once again this morning, I tried disabling power saving in the device manager for the USB root hub, this instantly seemed to resolve the issue.  I guess I still have...

Doesn't work at all.  If I simply plug in Wyrd by itself, it does detect as a generic usb hub.  This is both by itself and with Modi attached.  I tried your method step for step though, and it didn't make a bit of difference.  Wyrd works, then I plug in Modi and it comes up as unknown device.

As far as I can tell, that isn't even an option for fastboot in my BIOS for my specific mobo.  I run an MSI P67A-G43 if it matters.  Also, as I've already described above, I can't even boot my PC with the DAC powered on anyways, so your second suggestion is irrelevant.  I always turn my DAC on...

Aside from simply listing it as an unrecognized device, no.  I did eventually get it to recognize today by once again spending half an hour just unplugging it, plugging it back in, switching Wyrd off/on repeatedly until finally Windows recognized it.  I guess I should also mention, that I...

So a few days later, still having issues with this.  I managed to get it to work til now by spending ten minutes or so unplugging and powering on/off repeatedly every time I powered on my computer, but today it seems like no matter what I do, the DAC doesn't want to recognize.   And the issue...

Yea I've already tried different ports.  The cables are fine as well. I've tested them on other things in addition to using them to hook up the DAC to my macbook instead of my PC, and it worked fine.   In addition, after turning Wyrd off/on while waiting for random periods of time I did manage...

So I've been using a Modi for awhile now on my computer which hasn't gone through any recent changes.  However the DAC started to fail a couple weeks ago.  Upon turning on my computer, it would simply be undetected, and I would have to play a game of unplugging it, and plugging it back into...

Long live the new flesh!

Just got through one of the last quests for the Dark Brotherhood, impersonating "Gourmet" is easily one of my favorite moments in the game thus far although this might depend on specific dialogue choices.

Quote: Loved Kitchen Confidential, then again I'm pretty much a Bourdain fanboy at this point.

Ringworld by Larry Niven

Revised thoughts on AC: Revelations, kind of disappointed honestly.  I've been extremely happy with the whole series thus far.  Many complained that there was a lack of new or revised mechanics, but I found each following entry just enough to keep me interested.  Overall, changes were always an...

Played a bit of Assassins Creed Revelations.   For the most part what I expected which is a good thing but definitely not liking the whole tower defense mini-game.

Started two books Christianity: The First 3000 Years by Diarmaid MacCulloch and Rule 34 by Charles Stross.

Just finished the main missions on Saints Row the Third plus some of the side stuff and clocked around 15 hours.  To revise my initial impressions, it may be a bit short but there is still tons of stuff to do that I wasn't aware about.  Also, the missions in general have such a polish to it that...

Took a break from Skyrim tonight to play Saints Row the Third.  Its pretty frickin epic although I do have a few complaints.  I've only sunk about 3 hours into it and my completion percentage is already 20%.  From my understanding that percentage includes all side missions and activities which...

Read about that sound fix but it did nothing for me. The last time I loaded it up I disabled Steam overlay and it didn't crash but its hard to say whether that did anything or not since its so random.

Its not a spec problem, running it on a i5-2500k, HD6870, 8gigs of ram.  Running at 1920x1080 on high settings.  The crashing is really irregular and seems to be happening to alot of players.  i.e.  while it seemingly crashed often this morning, I didn't crash again all day and I probably played...

The thing that is really getting on my nerves is the random crashing to desktop.  It seems to happen randomly and nothing apparently or obviously triggering it.  I can go 8+ hours playing with no crashing or it can be like today where its apparently crashing every 15 min or so....

Honestly, I thought that graphics were pretty good given the scale of the game, also runs smooth on high settings for me.  The only thing I've noticed graphics-wise is missing/messed up textures.  Haven't tried ultra settings yet but will try later after work to see how well that runs on my...

Just finished 1Q84.  Mind has been blown.....