John, try it. I remembered this while thinking about the annoyances James Francisco has been having with his Steinberg interface. However, I think a reboot forces loading drivers and I don't think this will solve your particular problem.

Jeff, jcland gave you the best reason to do this in the post just above yours. When Windows hibernates, this restarts the drivers.

I can't think of a downside to doing this for computers using digital audio. The additional time to load drivers will hardly matter.


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