ZXR sound stops randomly

Hi, been trying to fix this problem for a couple of months now. Got a X79 system with Soundblaster ZXR, it works fine for hours (sometimes only minutes) and then suddenly the sound stops, only way to get it back is to reboot. Tried quite a few things, update bios, set bios to optimised defaults, remove any IRQ conflicts, even swapped my ZXR with a friends ZXR, nothing has worked and I'm at my whits end as the ZXR is awesome and I don't want to even try onboard audio or any other soundcard.
Latest driver is installed, also happens on my Windows 7 system, current gaming system is 8.1. Am using 5.1 and SBX Pro Studio. Any suggestions much appreciated, even just hearing of one other person having the same problem would help, if no one else has the problem then it must be something specific to my system.

Originally Posted by Theages
I had a possibly similar occurrence. Even after a reboot the ZxR could not be found in the device manager. I had to power the computer off for several seconds to get it back after a reboot.
Cause was an error in my system RAM (checked with memtest86+). I had tried to set my DDR4 RAM to DDR-2800 (which it was specified for) on my ASUS X99 Deluxe.
After reverting to auto detection for my RAM (resulting in DDR-2133) it has never happened again. The RAM does not show any error when checked with memtest86+ at this speed.
Try to check your RAM for errors.
To test different things I run a 60 minute long iRacing replay, the sound is almost guaranteed to stop during that time. I tested setting bios to optimised defaults, the sound stopped, I've tested just about everything I can think of related to my system and it always stops.
Just did one more test tonight though, set windows to 2.1 stereo and the sound didn't stop after playing the same replay 5 times (5 hours). So it looks like it's either a 5.1 Windows bug or it may relate specifically to iRacing because the sound has never stopped in BF4 although I don't spend as much time playing it.
Do staff look here and make posts? I'm willing to test if you want to try and fix this, maybe there is a diagnostic tool to show what causes the loss of sound when it happens? The only reason I bought the ZXR was for SBX Pro, I could use my Firewire card if I wanted high quality stereo. This seems like a pretty major bug.

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