I need help Now!!!!!!

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Soundscaper

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I just purchased Sonar and a new computer: Here is what I've got:

1ghz processor
10 gig harddrive
256 Meg RAM
Windows ME

Everytime I do something in sonar my system stalls or goes to a blue screen. It shuts down sometime when I only move my mouse. I have the delta 66 sound card. Can some one help me!!!!!!! Please Please Please!!!!!
 
Sounds like its the computer...

How long did you have the computer before loading SONAR? Do you use it to run any other applications? Which drivers are you using for the delta (WDM or MME)?

While its possible that Sonar is contributing to the issue, I'd look at the system setup first.
 
Here is some info on my computer I just got it.

10.2GB Capacity
5,400 RPM Spindle Speed
Number of Platters: 1
Number of Heads: 2
8.5ms Average Seek Time
Ultra DMA 66/33 support
Acoustic Noise Suppression Technology
High Speed Digital Signal Processor (DSP) based Architecture
7 way interleave OTF Error Correction
S.M.A.R.T. compliant
SSB™
ImpacGuard™
NoiseGuard™

AMD Athlon™ Processor 1GHz
Features:
1GHz
Nine-issue, superpipelined, superscalar x86 processor microarchitecture designed to achieve high clock frequencies
Multiple full x86 instruction decoders
Three out-of-order, superscalar, fully pipelined floating-point execution units, which execute all x87 (floating-point), MMX and 3DNow! And Enhanced 3DNow! instructions
Three out-of-order, superscalar, pipelined integer units
Three out-of-order, superscalar, pipelined address calculation units
72-entry instruction control unit
Advanced dynamic branch prediction
Enhanced 3DNow! technology
200-MHz AMD Athlon system bus (scalable beyond 400 MHz) enabling leading-edge system bandwidth for data movement-intensive applications
High-performance cache architecture featuring a split 128-Kbyte L1 cache, an integrated 256K L2 cache (external 512K L2 cache for Model 1 and Model 2), and a large dual-level, split Translation Look-aside Buffer (TLB)


Socket A for AMD Athlon™/Duron™ 200MHz FSB processors
95/100/103/105/110/115/133 MHz FSB
Auto-detects CPU voltage

Chipset
VIA VT8365 (KM133)
VIA VT82C686B
Chipset with build in S3 savage 4 graphics core
Creative CT5880 PCI sound chip (4 channel)

Memory
2 168-pin DIMM sockets
Supports PC-100 / PC-133 SDRAM and VCM SDRAM
Supports up to 1GB SDRAM
Supports only 3.3V SDRAM DIMM

Slot
1 x AGP slot supports 4x mode
3 x PCI Slot supports 33MHz and PCI 2.2 compliant
1 x AMR slot (reverse)

System I/O
2 x UDMA 100/66/33 bus master IDE ports on board
1 x FDD, 1 x COM, 1 x LPT, PS/2 keyboard, PS/2 mouse on board
1 x VGA (DB15), 1 x joystick, 1 x line-in, 1 x line-out, 1 x MIC on board
2 x USB ports on board

Power
ATX power connector
Power-on by LAN, RTC, modem and switch
Power-off by Windows® 95/98/2000 shut down and switch
Stop CPU fan during entering suspend mode

Form Factor
Micro ATX , 4 layer PCB (24.4*21.0cm)

Hardware Monitoring
Auto speed down and alarm when CPU overheat or fan failure
System voltage detect (Vcore, VDD, Vcc, +12V)
Stop CPU fan in suspend mode
Hardware detect and report Power-in voltage, CPU voltage and CMOS battery status
CPU/System fan revolution and temperature detect

BIOS
2Mbit Flash RAM
AMI BIOS with enhanced ACPI feature for PC '98 / Win '98/2000/Me compliance, Green, PnP, DMI, INT13 (>8.4GB) and anti-virus functions
IDE#1~#4, SCSI, LS-120, ZIP and CD-ROM bootable
AC recovery ON/OFF control
Auto-detect and report system health status

Other features
Suspend-to-RAM (STR)
Includes Wake-On-LAN header (WOL) and internal/external
Supports USB keyboard or mouse wake up
Includes 3 fan power connectors
 
You remind me of Veruca Salt from Willy Wonka.

"I want an Oompa Loompa NOW Daddy!!!"
said in a spoiled English accent.
 
Need more info...

You didn't answer all of the questions. Driver type? Other applications? Was the system stable beofre SONAR was loaded?
 
sjeez, that took me a full minute to scroll down :)

Soundscaper, after a quick scan, I didn't notice a graph card, just a chip. You might consider adding one. Although the graphical specs of Sonar aren't too high, I suspect any separate VGA card will be an improvement, maybe Sonar stalls whilst trying to draw a waveform, who knows.
Secondly, if you haven't done so already, try to disable that Creative Ct5800 soundchip, it might conflict with your Delta card.

greets...t.
 
Here is what I have so far:

I own a HP computer running windows 98SE and sonar works great on it. NO errors. It is even a slower system than the one with the errors. It has a K-6 processor. Here is all the drive info I know:

I downloaded the WDM drivers and the other drivers from M-Audio and they both did not work.


I am thinking about installing Windows 2000 professional edition. Do you guys and girls think this could solve the problem? One of the tech guys I spoke to said 98 and 2000 professional is a more stable OS than ME.
 
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