Volume during Games Question...

I would have posted in the Audio/Sound section, but it seems spammed or something. Anyway, I can't change volume during some games (Jade Empire, ES5 Skyrim, etc.), but others I can... Is there an override for this or a work around? Please help if possible and thanks
Computer is Qosmio X870-BT3G23 with Win 8 64bit
Qosmio X870-BT3G23

Its the system volume I am unable to change during some games, other games I am able to change system volume while in game.
Qosmio X870-BT3G23

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The issue is that while play a game the system experiences a short 5-10 second freeze during the game randomly, but usually several times an hour. During this freezing the sound would loop and as suddenly as the freeze occurs it would cease and the game would continue on as if nothing happened. However, sometimes this would result in the system freezing outright after this short 5-10 second freeze... but it does not feel like a total system freeze, but rather a video freeze as the sound continues and I still have keyboard control... but this does require me to force a manual reboot of the machine itself. I have scowered the internet and various forums in an attempt to find what the issue was and use various methods to remedy this issue, but so far nothing has worked in my favor... but it does seem like this issue has been plaguing other users with the MSI Neo2 Platinum motherboard. Below are some of the methods that I have used in an attempt to solve this issue:
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*Relaxed/Aggressive memory timings
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*Disabled all unneeded onboard components (Realtek NIC, Sound, SATA)
*Disabled nVidia MAC and attempted to use 3Com Gigabit PCI card instead
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*Tried PCI Sound Card (SB Audigy2 ZS Gamer) in PCI Slots 3/4
*Tried video drivers from 71.89 Official to 76.45 beta modified drivers
*Tried 5.10 official nForce drivers to remixed 7.02 nForce drivers (5.10 drivers uses 4.36 GART, higher drivers uses the 4.40 GART)
*Applied all the latest updates from Windows Update Website
*Reinstalled Operating System (Windows XP SP2) 5 different times clean with various settings (APIC on/off, etc...) and different drivers.
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*Replaced PSU (Previously was a Thermaltake 420watt PSU, 18A +12v) with a OCZ Modstream 520watt PSU (28A +12v)
*Video card is KNOWN working from previous build (AMD XP 3000, Abit NF7-S)
*Hard Drive is KNOWN working from previous build
*CD/DVD-ROM drive is kNOWN working from previous build
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*Used latency tweak to the video card
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*Memory passed MemTest86+ for over 24 hours
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HDD - Western Digital 1200JB 7200rpm IDE
DVD-ROM - Lite-On 16X DVD-ROM
Floppy - Mitsumi 1.44MB 3.25"
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I have been fighting this issue for well over a month now and I am frankly nearly out of ideas, this does not necessarly prevent me from playing games, but this does interfere with the games I do play (especially online games). I do demand absolute stability from the games that I play and this issue only began AFTER I upgraded to the new motherboard, processor, and memory. The only thing I have not tried is something that I do not have access in attempting on this motherboard, and that is increasing the voltage to the chipset.
Here is my theory on what is going on is that I believe is there is a fault with the chipset on this motherboard and this is manifesting itself while I am playing various games on this system. Of course I would like to try increasing the voltage to the chipset as that would increase stability, but there is no option in BIOS to increase the chipset voltage like the previous motherboard I had (Abit NF7-S). It is possible that either a) the chipset is at fault and is causing me this issue or b) the chipset is not recieving enough voltage.
My question to the rest of you is this, what do you think the problem is and what ideas do you have that I may try that I have not tried yet. Additionally if there is nothing else that I may try should I attempt to RMA this motherboard and will that help, and is there any other versions of this motherboard that I should be aware of. I would appreciate any response from a MSI representative and any comments from those that may have positive suggestions for my issue. Thank you in advance for your time and any help that you may be able to render.
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There are two other things I could try is use my old Geforce4ti 4200 and see what happens... or even try out WindowsXP 64-bit edition as someone earlier suggested. I wish I could find a new BIOS for my XFX 6800NU, but there there is only the revision 1 BIOS that I was able to find. The mystery continues...
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Message Edited by webaccount on <SPAN class=date_text>0-5-2005 <SPAN class=time_text>04:43 AM
Message Edited by webaccount on 0-5-2005 04:45 AM

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29/12/07 4:11:39 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.UserEventAgent-LoginWindow86) Exited: Terminated
29/12/07 4:11:44 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:44 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:47 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:47 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:47 PM Dock113 _DESCRegisterDockExtraClient failed 268435459
29/12/07 4:11:48 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:48 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:50 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:50 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:50 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:50 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:50 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:50 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:50 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:50 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:51 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:51 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:51 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:51 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:51 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:51 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:51 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:51 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:51 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:51 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:51 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:51 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:52 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:52 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:52 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:11:52 PM com.apple.coreservicesd59 NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
29/12/07 4:19:31 PM com.apple.launchctl.System[2] fsck_hfs: Volume is journaled. No checking performed.
29/12/07 4:19:31 PM com.apple.launchctl.System[2] fsck_hfs: Use the -f option to force checking.
29/12/07 4:19:32 PM com.apple.launchctl.System[2] launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.Cvnt.daemon.plist
29/12/07 4:19:34 PM com.apple.launchctl.System[2] launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist
29/12/07 4:19:34 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
29/12/07 4:19:34 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.cups.cups-lpd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
29/12/07 4:19:34 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.cups.cupsd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
29/12/07 4:19:34 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.ntp.ntpd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
29/12/07 4:19:37 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.AEServer) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
29/12/07 4:19:37 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.openssh.sshd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
29/12/07 4:19:45 PM org.apache.httpd26 httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using josh-wiltons-power-mac-g5.local for ServerName
29/12/07 4:19:55 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.UserEventAgent-LoginWindow88) Exited: Terminated
29/12/07 4:19:55 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.RemoteDesktop.agent87) Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 92 PPID 1 AppleVNCServer
29/12/07 4:20:23 PM AppZapper151 isRunning: 1, _endRunLoop: 1
29/12/07 4:20:28 PM Quicksilver139 ended at 861.000000 564.000000 1
29/12/07 4:20:28 PM AppZapper151 isRunning: 1, _endRunLoop: 1
29/12/07 4:26:18 PM com.apple.launchctl.System[2] launchctl: Dubious permissions on file (skipping): /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.Cvnt.daemon.plist
29/12/07 4:26:20 PM com.apple.launchctl.System[2] launchctl: Please convert the following to launchd: /etc/mach_init.d/dashboardadvisoryd.plist
29/12/07 4:26:20 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
29/12/07 4:26:20 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.cups.cups-lpd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
29/12/07 4:26:20 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.cups.cupsd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
29/12/07 4:26:20 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.ntp.ntpd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
29/12/07 4:26:27 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.AEServer) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
29/12/07 4:26:27 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.openssh.sshd) Unknown key: SHAuthorizationRight
29/12/07 4:26:31 PM org.apache.httpd26 httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using ::1 for ServerName
29/12/07 4:26:32 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd) Throttling respawn: Will start in 6 seconds
29/12/07 4:26:39 PM org.apache.httpd83 httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using josh-wiltons-power-mac-g5.local for ServerName
29/12/07 4:26:41 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.UserEventAgent-LoginWindow82) Exited: Terminated
29/12/07 4:26:41 PM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.RemoteDesktop.agent81) Stray process with PGID equal to this dead job: PID 90 PPID 1 AppleVNCServer
29/12/07 4:26:50 PM Dock116 _DESCRegisterDockExtraClient failed 268435459

I've got 2.5 gig of memory, both games are Leopard compatible (and had the exact same problem in Tiger), and all have current patches. I also own both games, so I know it's not about downloading some faulty bits for P2P or anything like that. I also have 75 GB of available memory out of a possible 300 GB, so it's not that there's a lack of space causing problems. As I mentioned, I erase/installed a fresh OS. I've turned off airport, alternated between hard drives, tried creating a new user account, even ejected my backup hard drive in case that was gumming things up. Permissions and repairs are A-OK.
I finally found a thread that suggested there some issue with dual processors and 3D games, though primarily the people who were talking about it were Intel users, many of whom were playing games through BootCamp and Parallels. Nothing helpful there.
Any more thoughts?

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