Dropouts Dropouts Dropouts...

I'm in dire need of help. This is my setup:
p4 2.8 w/HT
512mb ddr ram 400mhz
Aardvark DP Q10
Win XP
Sonar 3.1 producer's edition


I can start a new project and it will work fine but if i save it and then reopen it and try to play or record or do anything it drops out and plays whatever is there very slowly and jittery I have tried absolutely everything in the help online and bundled with sonar to no avail if i save it and close it i'll never be able to use it again. Also, the 3.1.1 patch won't recognize that i have 3.1 so it won't install. Any help on either of these would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Also what kind of pc are you using?

Dear Magic,
I ahd tons of dropouts too on about the same type of system that you had and what helped me after my requests and the many answers that I got was basically changing the Audio Buffer I/O up to 512 from 64 which was the defaut.
You can do this be going into Options/Audio/Advanced and you will see the Buffer I/O. Also it depends on also the amount of effects in your effect bin that you are running, what kind as well. You should adjust your Mixing latency in the same Options/Audio/ General Tab. Play around with it and see what you results you get. also please check the thread I put out and the generous repsonces I got from this very helpful Forum, pretty helpful people here. Being a studio muso sometimes it s pretty lonely place, hard to find someone that speaks our lingo, ha!
Here is the title of the thread: Audio Dropouts like Crazzy, Helllp! 25/5/2004 sorry I am not so good with computer stuff so that's about the best I can give you for the thread. But if you check back posts you can almost find the answers to most problems or at least comfort yourself that your not alone, ha!
Tim In Taiwan

Thank you for your help so far to stitch and kegerator I'm using two wd 7200rpm 8mb cache drives one exclusively for audio. I built the comp myself so I know all it's inner workings. Cakewalk is installed on the exclusive drive. Windows and everything else are on the general drive.

Thanks again

Also, the 3.1.1 patch won't recognize that i have 3.1 so it won't install.

yeah, what's up with that? I'm having the same problem. Went through a period of uninstalling/installing/re-partitioning/etc...and at some point the 3.11 decided it wouldn't install any more. It tells me I need to install the 3.1 patch first, which I have done several times over...but no luck?

Anyone know how to get around that?

Hello,

Thanks for the tip, but what is the correct value? I am comfortable working within the registry, but have not yet had reason to change any values.

P.S.( This forum rocks!!! The info I have been able to get has saved me weeks if web research. Serious thanks to everyone.

OBrown