Yet my board, with the via chipset has been good as gold :} However, that doesn;t help us with what is conflicting now on yours and setting off the windows default ding nor shut it down. if you go into the computer management area, is there anything in forced/sharing hardware, or anything in the device manager that would give us somewhere to look? at least somewhere to start, and maybe we can move around the offending item, and get this thing quieted down.