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I've had my second Xonar Essence STX die on me in the span of 3 months.... am I cursed?
My computer shut down in the middle of a sc2 game, and did a full restart. I thought this was a typical bluescreen or that one of my GTX 580s was having heat issues or something, but I loaded back into windows and the sound was gone. So I checked my device manager, and and sure enough it gave me the "might have faulty hardware or software installed or damaged" message.
Do these things just randomly die? There is no noticeable damage to the card physically that I can see. Any ideas?
My computer shut down in the middle of a sc2 game, and did a full restart. I thought this was a typical bluescreen or that one of my GTX 580s was having heat issues or something, but I loaded back into windows and the sound was gone. So I checked my device manager, and and sure enough it gave me the "might have faulty hardware or software installed or damaged" message.
Do these things just randomly die? There is no noticeable damage to the card physically that I can see. Any ideas?