I have three sound cards from NI: Traktor Audio 2 Mk I (old), Traktor Audio 10 (a bit newer), and Komplete Audio 2 (very new). All of them have the same problem: whenever I air the room and the temperature drops (a little! just a handful of degrees - I'm not turning the place into a freezer by any means), they become extremely unreliable - sound drops, USB connection drops, ultimately the system halts completely, with a bluescreen: "DPC watchdog violation" -> reboot necessary, unsaved data lost. this happens with all three of my cards. As the room warms up again after I close the window, the problems continue until (I assume) the hardware reaches a temperature equilibrium again. Usually that comes out to around two further bluescreens/reboots. depending on unknown circumstances, they also sometimes forget their ASIO settings and revert to minimum latency, which means broken sound. Even hours later, the cards will still sometimes do their little
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...and die, and have to be disconnected/reconnected or even powercycled before they will work again. It happened twice today, five and six hours after the initial temperature event. It's not good.
Now: Is there anything to be done about this? Would it harm the hardware to have it run in something like an oven mitt perpetually? Does anyone else have these issues? Is there help to be had?