Here it is, I log on and start playing. Everything is fine but after I hit anywhere from 1-4 hours of playtime the issue starts. I normally play all my games while using skype, but this issue happens even during sessions when I don't use a VoIP as well. I play FF14, Rift, Planetside2, and ESO. I have lost volume in FF14 and Rift but only in game never over Skype and game and very rarely. I would do a quick log out and in and the issue would be fixed but not for ESO.
With ESO I lose all volume coming into my headset but my friends can still hear me. So I try to quit out of ESO and it black screens till I am forced to task manager "end task". In task manager it says program is not responding, and if I try to log back in I still don't get any sound coming through. Next step I take is to shutdown my pc, now I get stuck in the shutting down screen. Today I waited it out roughly 17-20 minutes before I got the "Blue Screen of Death" or BSOD with a message that went away too fast for me to notice mainly because I zoned out watching the spinning circle under the "Shutting Down" notice, lol. The only thing I can remember is it something about a "Driver_Power_State_Failure". How bad is this and what can I do to fix it? I ran a check on my hard drive to see if it had errors but that came back fine also ran a check on my memory to make sure there weren't any errors with that and both came back clean. Ran viral scans with Microsoft security essentials which has everything saying its clean, and all BIOS and other video/audio drivers are up to date.