Thanks to the folks with the Gigabyte MoBo App Center Products and MoBo's Hi, I persisted with fixing this myself from the "Man" knows better than "Machine" standpoint. I took a lesson from Pizzly and Fanstein. Uninstalled the following: ASUS Sabertooth Z87 Apps. -- Removal completed successfully. AI Suite III, ASUS Product Register Program, ASUS Product Register Program, Asus Fan Control Service, Asus WebStorage Windows Service I reinstalled ESET 2014 from the CD with the downloaded update that gets Smart Security 8.0.312, AV Signature is 11881 (20150702) 6:15 PM (MST-7) I am running on ESET 8.0.312, So far all is well. As far as I can surmise something killed the Win8.1 of making BSOD dumps and also rendered the system incapable of running an ESET startup scan. 11/2014. The ASUS geo-location of code writers manufacturers with malware are suspect. Oh Well. Now more scans are needed and I do need the FAN Control back. Need to find out why dumps did not occur too,