OK two hours crash free so far with the sfc /scannow. Does anyone know exactly what this does and how it fixes the crash problem?

OK this is running now. I'll post an update when ran.

AAAAAAAND Just as I posted that - it crashed.    Still looking for a solution. 

Sorry I realise this may be a little vague. Here is what I did:-   1. Press the Windows key on your keyboard to open the "start menu" (or horrible purple touch screen with boxes on it) 2. Type "control panel" and press Enter. 3. Click Sound. 4. On the popup window disable anything that is...

HI NA Blur, many thanks for the reply.  I have tried these solutions already but it seems the simplest and most obvious thing to try has actually worked and I am now crash free!   All I had to do it seems was DISABLE the laptop's on-board sound card in the device manager. It looks like there...

Just received my new eagerly anticipated Fiio E07K DAC and am most frustrated. I am using a HP Pavillion AMD x64  x2 laptop with Windows 8 64 bit and the drivers from Fiio's website. I have no other USB devices running on the USB bus. USB 2.0 only.    I contacted Fiio first who told me to...