I'm guessing it's as much a driver issue as a random conflict within windows 8/8.1 it seems (much like the issue with the mute button becoming locked. Wasn't Microsoft or the Sound card makers fault, just an annoying, hard to find, conflict), lol. As long as you don't update your comp the damn thing works great! but who wants to run an old sketchy version with no fixes?
I have a ethernet cord and a spare card just in case this problem eventually fries it, worries me every time it says it can't start .. And to be honest I think it's actually a bigger pain in the ass to have my girlfriend complain about it and make me fix it, just because she can't get on tumblr or youtube.................
Should really just get over it and buy an entirely different brand to be done with it, but alas, that's far to easy
