Sound requires two boots to work.

[Graceman]

Just recently I  have had to start booting twice for my sound to work, First boot from cold sound does not function and no icons for sound. Close and re boot and sound with icons works.
I do not seem to be able to start sound from within windows which makes me think its a basic driver problem but I have not really changed anything recently but obviously something has changed.

Can anyone suggest were to look or explain how to get the boot process to start step by step so I can read the screen this is the bit before windows starts. I know I can use F8 but its the bios screens I cannot read they open and close too quickly to read.
 
MB is GA-X58A-Ud3r ver 1.0

[RobD]

To see bios screens, hit pause or depending on you keyboard layout, you might need to hold alt down, then hit pause.
To make it continue, press space [or any other key]