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As the chipset is the element that's likley connecting the NIC to the rest of the system (and potentially also the NVMe drive if it's not directly connected to the CPU) you'll be sharing bandwidth via the chipset.  You should still get great speeds from the NIC (for sure better than gigabit) but if you wan to tweak, turn off everything you're not using from the chipset in the BIOS.  For example. the shipset sometimes reserves some bandwidth to enable SATA. if you're not using it.. turn it off... 

Also, yes.  That circled chipset driver....  download and install that...  Doesn't hurt to get the Audio and LAN driver also
 

OK, so disk doesnt seem to be an issue, good.  In the Event viewer you actualyl need to expand the tree view on the left out to look like this:

Here you can then see what was going on around the time of the issue... look for lots or errors or warnings or even LOTS of "information" from a single source RIGHT BEFORE the freeze....  Event Viewer can get out of control (verbose) so you need to keep an eyue on time... only events in the few seconds before will really be relevent at a guess...

You said warranty? is it a pre built?

Hi,  When I  think of freezing it can be loads of things but you said "audio device disconnects"  Does it do the windows "Deo , deo Do.... wait.. di, de Do" noise of a USB device being lost and registered?
 
I find this is usually SW related OR a failing USB port/chipset But you'll have to dig to work out what's going on. Try...
 
- Have Task Manager on Performance Tab open all the time... after a freeze have a look...  has Disk activity on a drive gone to 100% just before the event? (you have NVMe so this is unlikely the cause but for HDDs and SATA if you saturated the disk windows was on it could cause soft lockups that recovered themselves). Might as well check eh?
- Clear your event log at the start oft he day... when you get a freeze up note the time. go in to event log after and select the system logs and the application logs... hunt for warnings or errors around the time of the freeze up (will point you towards a device if it's a device issue).  This is the best bet on tracking what's happening down quickly.
- Are you using USB Hubs.... if you have many devices plugged in to a hub and it draws to much power it can cause them to dissappear/reappear (causing a hang up).  Try plugging devices to direct USB ports if you are.
- Finally, to rule out GPU drivers download the latest versions from Nvidia website and then run DDU (display Driver Uninstaller) to remove every trace and install new drivers...
 
At all points, keep checking that event log for erros and warnings... Random hooks ups can cause other stuff to look broken when its not

Top 250 in the team rankings.... a long way to go now (and progress slowing down  FAST) but not bad for results based off generic spare parts and the odd upgrade!!!

Top 250 in the team rankings.... a long way to go now (and progress slowing down  FAST) but not bad for results based off generic spare parts and the odd upgrade!!!

Top 250 in the team rankings.... a long way to go now (and progress slowing down  FAST) but not bad for results based off generic spare parts and the odd upgrade!!!

Top 5000 in the Project yesterday and now cleared 250,000,000 points.  Not in the same league as some of the big guns here but nbot bad for a mish-mash of recycled computer HW and old mining cards bought on the cheap Onwards and upwards

Milestone for me today...... got on to the LTT Team leaderboard....  Now, position 980 so plenty of time to improve... but still... Happy days!

Milestone for me today...... got on to the LTT Team leaderboard....  Now, position 980 so plenty of time to improve... but still... Happy days!

Happily scrapping my 800k a day with what I got.  At rank 1234 and I'm coming for you 0/day'ers!

I'm a bit unsure TBH.  I'm not getting a steady string of Work Units at the moment and the stats for estimating the PPD change a LOT.  Rx580 GPU and R9 3900X (at 4.3all Core, all the time) should produce a lot... the old 1st Gen i5 sitting in the corner... yeah, that's estimated at 27k/day..... Every little helps right?

Recuva will do that...  Just plug the drive in to another computer and get the program to do a deep scan.  It's free and you'll be able to recover loads of the 'lost' files.  be aware that it'll also show up stuff you've deleted if it's not been overwritten