ASIO4ALL issue w soundcard

This is strange. Beagle helped me before. Does anyone know how to contact him?
 
I am running HomeStudio 6XL on a Windows 7 machine. Previously I had no soundcard at all, and of course SONAR wouldnt work without one. So Beagle got me install this thing called ASIO4ALL which interacted with the soundchip on my motherboard and the program would play. Unfortunately, it would crash as soon as I tried to play any other kind of sound file, like an mp3, or do anything else that used sound, like access a web page with sound on it, or youtube.
 
So I got a soundcard recently, a SoundBlaster Audigy Fx. I had a local shop install it and it sounds nice. However, in SONAR, I noticed that the ASIO4ALL is still being used. In fact, over the Main output bus, it says, ASIO4All v2 Sound Blaster speakers 3. And the Soundblaster card itself, isnt available or even listed when I go to Audio Options, Drivers... the only thing listed is what I wrote above, the ASIO4ALL somehow attaching itself to the soundblaster speakers.
 
Would anyone know why this is? Is it because the soundblaster card didnt come with proper drivers, or the shop did not install them? Or is it because ASIO4ALL just wont give up being in control now?

Any help would be appreciated. The program does work and I can play and mix, so its not like it doresnt work at all. However if SONAR is open, I cant play anything else thru any other player, like media player or foobar, I get an error. Its like SONAR or ASIO4ALL has hijacked the soundcard and wont let anyone else play anything.
 
thanks for any replies.

Thanks for replying! If I uninstall ASIO4ALL, will I then have to "show" SONAR where the Creative drivers are? I'm not sure I know how to do that.... Or will it just find the creative drivers automatically?
 
I'm afraid I'll end up with no driver loaded at all, and then no sound...
 
and can you please tell me where the "share drivers" feature is found?

Of all the sound cards on the market I'm sorry to say you have picked the one that is very well documented on this forum as  not usable for DAW Audio.
Those cards are made for Gaming and watching movies. Creatives Audio drivers , which they claim will be ASIO, will not run in ASIO mode with Sonar. I personally have my doubts that they are even "true" ASIO.  So you end up running WDM or MME mode and are your back to square one. Even if you get it working you will have major timing issues. I know this first hand I'm not just repeating what I've read. 
 
Years ago I tried in Vain to make a Sound Blaster Audigy card run with Home Studio. 
That was the year I joined the forum. Back then there was not much information about audio sound cards. 
The forum taught me this Mantra: 
You must have a proper audio interface to work with Sonar or any DAW. 
A proper audio interface not only provides the right connectivity, it comes with stable ASIO drivers. There are very good audio interfaces for $130 ( example Scarlett 2i2) 
Under $100 you will probably be having issues, not with the hardware so much as with the Drivers.
Audio drivers are the heart of a DAW system. 
 
Not only from the past but just a month ago my son gave me one off his computers to replace my P4 Office machine. It's a modern AMD Quad core with way out there specs running Window 7 64 bit Ultimate. 
 
He had been using it for Gaming and watching movies. He had installed a Sound Blaster Audigy I card in it! It had the Creative ASIO driver logo. 
 
I bought a Roland keyboard that came with X1 LE so I thought I'd install it on this computer as I certainly didn't need it on my DAW computer. I know my way around Sonars audio system and set up procedure. Guess what. Only WDM mode would run on Sonar. Trying ASIO mode Sonar told me was not an option with the drivers. 
The software was unusable to me. It was like a flash from the past. I opened the Drum Synth and hit a skin, It took a good full  second to play the sound. If I tried working with that I'd go nuts. All your tracks will also end up out of sync because  the creative drivers are so unstable. 
I bought an new Audio interface for my main DAW so I retired the old Tascam us1641 to this computer. After I removed the SB card ( PCI ) and installed the Tascam ASIO drivers, Sonar X1LE was performing excellently. 
 
 
Buy the way, ASIO4all is not really ASIO, it is a WDM mode in a "wrapper"   look it up. You don't even need it as most sound cards already supply WDM mode in their drivers. It was a "fix" from 10 years ago and is totally outdated and a waist of time. 
 
Beagle can be found in the coffee house, I think he retired from helping people as one can get burnt out repeating the same info :) 
 

Ha ha Funny Spacealf was typing same time as me and has almost said the same thing so there you go... 
Start shopping. 

another thing I need to add.... I'm not recording in this computer. I'm only mixing. Recording is done on another computer, an XP machine, but it has the Delta 1010LT soundcard in it... works fine for recording, even 8 simultaneous live tracks. but it doesnt have the computing power to mix. I record, then transfer the entire work folder to my other machine, the big Windows 7 machine, and I mix on that.

It sounds like a pain but it has worked well for me so far. I just need a soundcard that will run with ASIO drivers for the big windows 7 machine. I dont plan on recording, just mixing.

If I do get one, should I un-install ASIO4ALL before installing the new soundcard?
 

"Share drivers with other programs" - this worked and allows me to not have to close the program to hear my work in any other player, so, that problem is solved, thank you!!!