GA-P35 DS3P Rev. 2.0 external firewire audio card suddenly stops working

So with a fresh install of windows xp sp2, grapics driver (xfx)
chipset driver, lan driver and drivers for either of my external sound
cards (1394) , after a few minutes of just navigating through folders
or surfing the net I loose sound. I have also updated the bios to the
latest version.

If I restart the computer, I get sound back but it just does the same
thing all over. If I cycle the power on either external sound card
while in windows I sometime will get sound back, but it will vanish
soon after. I have experimented with both sound devices and
regardless if one or both are connected the error is the same. I have
also tried just one sound source with only one set of drivers on a new
install of windows with the same results. I've basically tried every
basic thing I could think of.

Any Ideas what could be causing this drop out?

Mike

And I've disabled the onboard sound in the bios...before installing
windows.


On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:03:21 -0500, Mikey Ice <Nope@way.com> wrote:

>So with a fresh install of windows xp sp2, grapics driver (xfx)
>chipset driver, lan driver and drivers for either of my external sound
>cards (1394) , after a few minutes of just navigating through folders
>or surfing the net I loose sound. I have also updated the bios to the
>latest version.
>
>If I restart the computer, I get sound back but it just does the same
>thing all over. If I cycle the power on either external sound card
>while in windows I sometime will get sound back, but it will vanish
>soon after. I have experimented with both sound devices and
>regardless if one or both are connected the error is the same. I have
>also tried just one sound source with only one set of drivers on a new
>install of windows with the same results. I've basically tried every
>basic thing I could think of.
>
>Any Ideas what could be causing this drop out?
>
>Mike