• SONAR
  • If My PC Dies (SOLVED)
2016/04/21 21:53:41
bayoubill
I'm having problems with my PC and am afraid It may need to be replaced. If this happens how do I reinstate Sonar Platinum, Melodyne Editor, and Addictive Drums on the new PC? What will I lose?
2016/04/21 22:07:57
SuperG
There's no problem installing Sonar on a new computer - just download the Command Center app and go from there. What you might lose, though, is your project files. Be sure to back them up to another driver, or a USB stick or something.
2016/04/21 22:12:33
bayoubill
Thanks SuperG! Doing that now. From what I've read so far it sounds like a RAM problem. I replaced my RAM chips last year so I will check that out in the morning.
2016/04/21 22:35:50
SuperG
Good luck with it! The bios is beeping at you could mean RAM as you suggested, or an add-odd on card is causing the error. You're on the right track. You might be able to repair it, you might not. If it's an older computer, it's probably not worth it, economically,  to invest much time in repairing it.
2016/04/21 22:44:53
bayoubill
Exactly what I was thinking. This PC is over 6 years old and is a Dell as you can see. I'll check my RAM and then take it to a local PC repair shop down the street. I'm having fan problems and the blue screen of death popping up in the last 2 weeks. I haven't added any programs though or changed anything except the Sonar upgrade/renewal 
2016/04/21 22:51:27
SuperG
I've (personally) owned most brands at one time or another, excepting Apple. This one, the one I'm using right now is my first Dell, an XPS 890. I bought it a month ago, and I'm pleased as punch with it.
2016/04/21 23:04:49
bayoubill
I'm also checking  Dell XPS 890 out  
2016/04/21 23:13:30
promidi
If you do a full complete backup of your entire hard drive(s) (including OS) to a separate external drive using a proper backup program, you should not lose anything.

This is something you should be doing on a production machine anyway on a daily basis.  I do the OS backup once a week and a work files and settings backup nightly using a scheduled backup solution to an external drive.

If your repair shop just changes the motherboard/cpu and ram, the data on your existing hard drive(s) should remain intact.  Once you have reinstalled your OS to how it was before, then you can restore your user data from backup

Once thing I would do is take note of your drive partitioning information and drive letters of all drives - you will want these replicated on your new machine - especially if you decide to change the whole lot to a brand new machine.
2016/04/21 23:19:13
bayoubill
Once thing I would do is take note of your drive partitioning information and drive letters of all drives - you will want these replicated on your new machine - especially if you decide to change the whole lot to a brand new machine. 
 
I have a drive I installed for Sonar projects and content but it's not external. It takes all day to back up 
2016/04/21 23:25:18
slartabartfast
SuperG
There's no problem installing Sonar on a new computer - just download the Command Center app and go from there. What you might lose, though, is your project files. Be sure to back them up to another driver, or a USB stick or something.




Your project files are probably the main issue, but if you need to reinstall Sonar, then likely you will need to reinstall Windows, so you are possibly going to lose all your Windows settings, and all your other programs. the settings for those, and any authentication tokens as well. If it is just a piece of bad ram, then you may just be able to keep running the same software system once you have replaced it.
 
It is certainly worth trying to do a disk image of the system disk, before you let the machine leave your hands. The "local repair shop" can be a place where terrible things happen to your disks and their contents. Unfortunately the problem with the computer is as often as not a problem with the installed software, and restoring an image of a sick system just restores a sick system. If you have software that limits the number of installations you can do, you may be able to recover an installation permission by uninstalling or deauthorizing those while connected to the internet before alterations are made to the machine. And of course if you have sensitive data on the machine, the computer guy will likely have access to it unless you remove or encrypt it. 
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