Finally, some progress.
@JoelG thanks for suggesting the Behringer driver install.
After installing the driver, the PTF is no longer crashing.
However, it now gives me this error message upon opening.
"your audio is configured with a unsupported audio buffer size.
Please choose 32,64,128,256,512,1024 or 2048."
Per your suggestion, I did disable the Interface by going into Control Panel, Sounds, and disabled - to be sure Windows isn't going to try to output anything to it.
Also, did the following things mentioned in the Optimization Guide:
http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/t...0-Guide#run_as
1.) Update Graphics Drivers
2.) Update Network Adapter Driver
3.) Adjust Power Options
4.) Supplemental: Disable USB Power Management (USB interfaces only)