The fact that your PC is crashing should be telling you something straight away!!!
I suggest you visit the UMPTEEN websites like MUSICXP and learn about running Music Hardware on PC's!! It sounds to me quite obvious that its a Problem with your system if your PC is crashing and not a Problem with your M-Audio Hardware. M-Audio are known for very good products and great drivers, I think its YOUR setup. It sounds like you need to educate yourself a bit more in the way of using your PC and not be so QUICK to rat on M-Audio, when you yourself couldn't even be bothered to add paragraphs and formatting to your email to them.
1) You don't need a pre-amp with your VIRUS it outputs line level signals. You can adjust the +4, 0, -11db amounts in the mixer app.
2) unplug the Midi-OUT of your Virus, you don't need it, you maybe creating a MIDI loop, test it, without and see if it still happens. I think there is a option on my Virus to send all incomming data back out the output, you would want to disable this!!!
3) Run your PC in 'STANDARD PC Mode' much better for Audio Work
4) Disable any other Audio Devices in the System Devices of your Control Pannel, including any other MIDI devices which may be fighting for System resources on your BUS.
5) Download a different Music App, that is MIDI compatible, Tracktion for example, see how it responds to MIDI, this will tell you if perhaps FRUITY LOOPS is the culprit.. (I think its not, but you need to elliminate it from the equasion)
6) Pick up a USB 2x2 midi Interface, very effective and cheap too!!!!
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