Please Help! SONAR X1 Producer Freezes on Boot-Up

Aloha! I'm running Windows XP on a Dell with 2.40 Ghz processor and 3 GB RAM. As of today, when trying to load SONAR X1 Producer, it will not progress past the initial "SONAR" load screen. Less than 24 hours ago it was running optimally whenever I opened it--so far as I know there have been no updates or system changes in the meantime. While viewing the load progress in the Task Manager, it never progresses far beyond 30MB before just ceasing altogether. Any ideas on how I could beat this or what's gone wrong? Thanks in advance, drughelmet

The splash screen--I do not actually get into the program itself. Since last post I have updated to Producer X1C, and it has not made any noticeable difference.

 I'll give that a try, thanks. And yes, it just hangs endlessly until I end the task. I've been running X1 Producer on this machine for over a year with no issues (other than the occasional hangup--but not like this) until today.

 Ok, I've updated drivers, defragged, cleaned the registry, and emptied the picture cache. No change. I also realized that I had Producer 8.5 still installed, but that has the same issue, so I deleted it. Has anyone else encountered this issue, or am I alone? I certainly can't find any documentation about this type of situation...

drughelmet


 I had Producer 8.5 still installed, but that has the same issue, so I deleted it....

Since you are seeing the problem in two different flavors of SONAR, I suspect that the hang is occurring while SONAR is searching for and loading your plugins.  I've seen this behavior after loading new plugins and was able to solve it by uninstalling the plug.  If you were reporting a recent addition of a plugin, I'd be more sure of this.  If you can get SONAR up in safemode, you can tick off a preference to not have plugin searched for each time the program starts.

pretty sure it's a plugin issue ...openeing in saf mode is the key 

When you open Sonar in safe mode, the first thing you should get is a dialog that says "SONAR will now personalize your user settings..." Are you not getting this dialog and going straight to a splash screen? btw, safe mode isn't a Mac or PC thing, it's a Sonar thing.

If you can't get started in safe mode, I fear you may be into uninstall/reinstall territory.

Might be worth contacting support to see if they have any other ideas.

I have the exact same problem running Sonar X3 on Windows 10. Has anyone found any solutions? I have thousands invested here and I can't work without it. Please help if you can.