ASUS P48SX motherboard
Sapphire ATI Radeon graphics card

This problem has been reported on internet forums, but I have found no solution so far:
On installing the software, the device worked fine and i was able to listen to audio and record audio using cubase sx 1.02. The software was installed having formatted my drive and reinstalling windows xp and service pack 2, cubase and propellerhead reason and nothing else. On the next few boots, the computer would hang during the windows xp splash screen. Windows would occasionally load on cold boots only and audio can rarely be heard.

Either the device will appear to work fine, with the volume level faders appearing to work properly and audio playing back but just not audible, or this will occur for the first 3 seconds of a track being played (in windows media player) and then the track would freeze until moved on with the cursor, then play for another 3 seconds, and so on, or the device would work and i can use it as i please.

Each time i have tried loading a session into patchmix that i saved when the card was operational and i know should allow me to hear audio and record it, but this does not help. I have also tried upgrading the drivers and patchmix to v1.08 from 1.07 with no luck.

I have tried setting the bios to manage pci devices instead of the operating system, moving the device into a new slot (although device was originally in an unshared slot), to no avail. When i moved the card and reinstalled the software. it worked for a few boots, then the audio started to clip even with the output faders turned down, and then a couple of hours later when i returned to the pc nothing could be heard and windows could not communicate with the device! argh!!

This seems to be a common problem amongst users to i hope you can help!
Regards,
Dom