Blue Screen of Motherboard Death?

[Valles]

Aaaaaaargh. Stupid Yuku.

So, I downloaded an update for my antivirus, and now, whenever I try to
play any sound (game, system, music, or video file) after letting my
machine go to sleep, it BSODs and restarts itself too quickly for me to
read what's going on. When it comes back up, Fucking Vista claims that
my (built into the motherboard) 'Audio Device is not installed'.
Rebooting the machine does not get my sound back, but shutting it all
the way down and bringing it back up does. Once I have it back
it works fine until the next nap.

Now, I was planning to nuke my current system back to the bare metal at
some point anyway, but when the system comes back up after the
crash Fucking Vista's 'let me find a solution for this' box tries to
pin it on the hardware. I wouldn't trust this OS if it claimed the sun
rose in the east, but it seems wisest to see if anyone has a way to
make sure before I start my rebuild.
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