Sir Les
If overclocking..?.Speed step and VT in bios on or off?...((advise given , to stop overclocking is best first to do))
 
To do Digital Audio/video...from my perspective, one should never overclock the cpu, or memory, or devices,/clocks..and tweaking the Bios is a must do... so no speed step or VT is on or used while doing.....Must should be ""disabled""...And any redundant devices turned off ..>In BOIS< So no holders in windows are made, and or reserved for IrQ's by Windows....which helps free up the raster and drive loading at boot...and perhaps services for.
 
So...If this is a possible reality with the OP....Setup is a must do, to get stability on most systems, with all parties playing along those ideas/clock speeds/ and such with/ cpu time outs hanging, and some chance of bad or weak parts that might not take to overclocking well...(audio cards)...less problems arise.
 
Just saying , like some others have said...Just to make sure...it is done..the setup....right, before the trouble shooting starts...results in less hair loss!.
  
Cheers!
 

 

Doktor Avalanche
Sorry but how the frig does this relate to the windows event viewer messages :)
And it looks like he bought the PC from a hardware tweaker anyway (who looks like may know what he's doing)...
 
Cheers..

 

Sir Les
Event viewer is saying something is wrong with X Y Z...Does not say what is causing it to crash ?...And if what is linked to the pc for XYZ to work correctly..(when bought, was working with older or less updated WINDOWS)(But has been since receiving updates))..speed step or vt causing issues with some of those vowels perhaps?...
 
Is it going to say in event viewer that speed step or vt or overclocking, or bad memory conflicts due to a cycle hiccup is causing it to crash, or some irq sharing while all the above have been not set or reset, or updating changed, once setup by the manufacturer as stable once burnt in, and stablized by them.////Once...Updating windows, and  updating Drivers, there after ""will work with those setting set to enabled i the Bios, and or overclocked by the manufacturer, will continue with the new owner and new updates and drivers?..
 
.I think not, setup it up right, Plane and simple, then install...for the reasons needed the system for....Then things work better, with less Event views to view.....enough said?...or does this person get all kinds of Issues with Plugins and crashes, one saying x, one saying y...another say z...as one afer another pop up.... and not solve em, only remove, and get the latest?..first by doing some setup to help it work smoothly from the get go might make it all work without events period.....Perhaps?....
 
Just saying...before hand.
 
And if this system was overclocked for x amount of time...Surely things with the cpu working if it ever overheated...could cause all kinds of events!
 
That is why I posted....
Be well...stay cool!

It's the software itself or a dependency on that software. Hardware faults do not tend to home into a specific VST plugin the same time every time. If it was hardware you would get BSOD's / freezes and perhaps all sorts of "random" stuff going on, especially the stuff you describe, and (if we are lucky) we would be getting event viewer messages about the hardware fault just before it freezes/BSOD's.

You need to understand the difference between a real crash (BSOD, freeze) usually caused by hardware and/or OS level/HAL, an application crash (exits to OS, reports to the event viewer), and a thrown error crash (graceful exit captured by the application itself, Cakewalk for instance does this when you send an error report to cakewalk as well as writes to event viewer)....
The clue to the cause is in the error message, and as I say hardware issues do not target particular plugins. Ta.
Never mind...

Hay...If it is, and the word if....I was here getting help once for this x1, x2, and x3...on a build before the one below....and they could not get my system to stop crashing.....Nor could I...until it burnt out....So the below spec is now new, with other pc and new mac now acquired.....Same thing being said...event viewer is saying this, that, and the other....Do the power management tweak...100%, and do this ""get the latest drivers and firmware installed...Still no glory....round in circles....No event viewer log of any speed step or vt, or sharing being noted....Yet Windows does do this, and says all is fine!...all is well....all is working a ok.......****tiepippie!
 
 
So start at square one, on the new build, or the old one...Bios first, drivers and firmware second, tweak the redundant devices to off..in bios is best...but you could use control panel....But Bios is better...as no device drivers or device will be detected by Windows on start up, and load, to be loaded and disabled after loading, and booting...and no services will start and stay started for the disabled devices in control panel if so loaded with those drivers for those devices....
 
I am not fighting the reason for some of the Crashes...I am trying to make a foundation for better troubleshooting practices!
 
 
But some people like you....seem to have issues with method....
 
Also cpu spiking...not logged in event viewer...I had issues also with....
And, all things are not logged....If the reporter when making the report crashes also....so dump...or..it just gets corrupted because it does not get written....Has occured here!
 
 
So...Let us make If mean if, and could be...mean could happen....and has...here....You make your own assessing method.....I made mine....with IF and COULD BE.....Do not try to make sense.....things happen sometimes in odd ways....there is mystery, and there is chaos....None of which is of what I posted...it is just a measure of method to solve all or some...if the instructions of some do not prevail in solving...then...why not try this first before hand?...takes a second to do, and another to boot and try if it works...if not, keep those things disabled, and get the latest plug ins....they will work better in the end or long run anyway with those things turned off.........And you cannot argue that fact....But time will tell....overclocking/speed stepping the cpu is that....it should not be done period.....
 
So...the OP can do what ever he/she wants to do........I find it best to turn off redundant and problematic things first!
 
 
Be well.
 
Good luck!

What a ****** *******!

Hosts? What hosts! One of the requirements for being a host is not being stupid!

Les seriously no big deal let's get back to topic. Nobody is saying your intentions are not honourable. Apols if you though I was bashing you personally I simply was attempting a technical discussion... cheers...

My Platinum crashes 50% of the time when I open it up it will give me an rtsonar.exe and its goodbye Platinum. I havent got any of slates plug ins on my system so I can't blame Tony!

I am feeling your grief, as it is a buzzkill to not be able to work without interruptions.
I am on the other hand, not seeing any of your problems. I only hope that you (all) will get this figured out.
It really is a great DAW I have not been set back through the 2015 cycle of SONAR at all.
I only have one issue with SONAR, and that is the UI issue with Saturation Knob (only on a above mounted monitor, and only in Console View), and there is a workaround.
Anyway, best of luck.

I believe I fixed it last night. All Softube products were removed including leftover dll in registry. Slate VBC received the same. My PACE I-lock acct had a WAVES SSL Expred demo from 2009. I nuked it. I did a reboot and no crashes. Hopefully, it is resolved.

Great... Just keep watching the event viewer.
Ta

That's awesome Steve!

It was the Softtube plugin for me causing the crash.  I just uninstalled it and everything scanned fine.