Thank you! I did a clean boot, and decided to try system restore, and it worked! I think the slowdown issue is fixed, but will have to test and confirm.

I tried to redo the chkdsk while in clean...

1. Logs are attached
2. What am I supposed to do in clean boot?
3. I did. It did 10 iterations overnight. I can't seem to find logs if there are any, but I know everything passed

Thank you! This is super helpful, and I'm really grateful for your time in helping to identify what the issue is. I'm skeptical of the FiiO driver ever behaving properly. It's downloaded from a...

I have random crashes that I can't seem to fix. It happens once every 3-4 hours it seems, but it's not a regular thing - i.e., can go all day with no problems, while other times it can crash twice in...