I had a similar problem with my Asus Pundit (small form factor), except mine happened later. Initially there were no problems with the card, but after messing with a totally unrelated USB driver, I got a similar blue screen (sorry, don’t remember details now). What I found interesting was when I restored an older drive image, I still had problems until I disabled the plug and play in the bios. (Usually you reach the bios by hitting the delete key when the system is first booting). Who knows, maybe it was also the incantation of 4 letter words that provided a little extra magic to fix things!
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