I recently acquired my first external DAC, a JAVS DAC-2 March edition, capable of doing 24/192, just like my soundcard at the time, an Asus Xonar DS. I hooked it up using the optical output from the Xonar, and almost immediately started getting BSODs. Mind you, that was after making no...

I would have started a thread asking about this in the Computer Audio forum, but apparently I don't have permission to start new threads there yet?    Anyway, I have an Asus Xonar DS that I'm hooking up to an external DAC via the optical output. Now, this is a soundcard that I've used for a...