So I get a blue screen that is a lighter blue than the standard blue screen sometimes. It only happens on my first boot up each day, but doesn't do it every day. I have to just power off and back on, and then it boots fine. Also, I noticed that my sound seems to glitch sometimes and play in slow motion. When someone talks in ventrilo, the sound glitch goes away (only thing that fixes it besides restart or mode switch on Creative drivers). I just got this board back from Gigabyte after RMAing it due to the first 2 DDR3 banks were dead. This problem has been fixed, but I believe I had the same blue screen issue before. The sound glitch is new after getting the motherboard back and installing the SSD.

Here's a picture (ignore the headset...):



System specs:
Windows 7 Ultimate 64
Intel i7 920
Gigabyte X58A-UD3R
OCZ 6x2GB DDR3-1600
Crucial M4 120GB - boot drive
Western Digital Black 500GB - storage drive
Creative X-Fi Platinum
Corsair AX850 PSU

 

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You don't happen to run dual monitors do you?

 

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Nope. Single 24" 1920x1080 Samsung.

 

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Uninstall your graphics driver and reboot a few times to see if the problem persists.

 

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1 - Notice you didnt state your Operating System.


2 - Is the SSD is a new addition to the system after getting it back from being fixed....If so, remove it, see if the sound issue persists.

Editted my post. It's Windows 7 Ultimate 64.

As for removing the SSD, its my main drive with everything on it. Not sure if there's an easy way for this...

 

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So, you had the SSD in there prior to the sending of the board to be fix?


If so, and the Sound issue only started after getting the board back, then it most likely is not linked.

I installed the SSD when I set the computer back up with the new motherboard.

 

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My sound card is officially dead.

I'm really hating Realtek ATM, which sound card should I replace this one with?

 

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