Sonar 7 Producer, soft synth tracks have no outputs to choose from in existing midi file

Hi all, using 7 Producer on my laptop. Been searching for an answer to this for two days. I'm trying to change an existing midi file to use soft synths rather than the windows instruments. The midi file plays fine, and the soft synths work fine by themselves, and insert fine into Sonar, creating their own tracks. The midi tracks that are not set to use a soft synth still play, even with some other tracks set to use a soft synth. When played, the midi track lights up but the soft synth tracks show no activity.
I set the output of the midi track to the soft synth, and the input of the newly-created synth track to the synth. But the output of the new synth track only gives me the options of "none" or "create new bus". No option to send it to the sound card. What am I missing here?
Thanks all!

Yes, it's the onboard chip, a soundmax. And it was set to ASIO. I tried it both of the other ways, and both put the soundcard into the synth outputs (yay!), but neither one allowed me to hear Real Strat. 

When it's set to WDM, I get no sound at all out of any tracks. 
When it's set to MME, everything works fine until I set the midi output to Real Strat. I can bounce back and forth while it's playing, and the track plays with the Soundmax and doesn't with Real Strat. It doesn't affect any of the other tracks, the whole song plays, it just turns that one track on and off as I switch between the synth and the soundmax. And neither one makes the synth track light up its meter when set to Real Strat... Real Strat opened as a stand-alone works fine, even when it's also open as a synth in Sonar at the same time. I tried the TTS synth too, with the same results. So for some reason, the midi track isn't being passed to the synth...

Even though I'm not a big fan of trying to do anything in Sonar without a proper interface, you should try "asio4all". SOnars Soft synths just don;t get along in MME mode. You probably using your MS wavetable $400 software was not meant to run on on board sound cards. If you enjoy recording then pick up a usb interface to avoid frustration.

I typed it wrong, it plays with the wavetable synth, not soundmax. The "2" is just the output numbering. Wavetable is #1, real strat is #2. I didn't have more than one instance running.

By "nice" sound card we would still vote for a USB, Firewire or PCIe interface. Gaming cards are for Gaming and watching movies. What you need is an audio interface that comes with good audio drivers, ASIO or WDM. In a desperate pinch some people report getting things to work by using asio4all, which is actually not even asio but a WDM wrapper.I tried it the other day on my Laptop just to see if I could work without my interface, It was a train wreck, and I sort of know what I'm doing as far as Sonar goes.