hell4real

Hi, i'm using my pod hd500x with my computer and recording with Reaper ,i'm on WIN 8.1 with all the recent updates. Whenever i use the pod and record i get blue screens on my pc,i know it's the pod because if i power it off the blue screens stop. The blue screen appers randomly;sometime after 10 minutes and sometime after hours. The blue screens mostly say: "KMODE_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED" and if i view it with blue screen viewer it addresses this as "ntoskrnl.exe" I've already updated the pc soundcard to the last drivers, and reinstalled the pod drivers and it didn't help. is there a solution for this?

I have a problem that i can't set my pod hd500x to 24bit,a message will appear telling that the format is not supported by the device.even though in the manual in 9*10 it is stated to set it to 24bit 44K. i'm adding an image

First of all i need to say that up until now i just played my guitar though a regular amp so i'm new to all of this musical equipment. So i recently purchased pod 500x and i have a few problems connecting everything. I want my monitors to be connected to my pc and the pod at the same time so i could hear them both. I don't want to use the pod as my sound card and connect the monitors to the pod because the master volume on the pod controls the volume of the pc and the pod but if i lower the the volume on the pc only the pc signal will lower and the output from the pod will stay the same, and i don't really want to adjust the volume on the pod and bend under my desk each time . I also want to connect my headphones the same way . Someone told me that the solution might be to buy a small mixer and to connect my headphones and my monitors to the output and my pc and pod and mic to the input,and control the volume from there. will it really work? if it does how do i connect my pc to it? can someone reccommend a small cheap mixer that will do the job? or is there other solution ? Another thing is that i will buy studio monitors in order to use them with the pod and the pc. How will i connect them with the mixer ? balanced or unbalanced? xlr? or other way?