Sonar Home Studio,Sample Tank3 and pc crashes

     When I insert a sample tank( free version)  or Rapture Session (version that came with home studio) track into sonar it works for 10-15 minutes and then the laptop crashes. Sonar sends a report to cakewalk but I haven't heard anything back. Laptop is a Toshiba Satellite, I7 processor with 8Gb memory, about 4 yrs old. Simple logic would dictate that the problem is more than likely an out of date laptop. Before I invest more $$ I wondered if anybody else has/had this problem?

Well I'm using a 4 year old Acer i5 with only 6 GB RAM so I'll see if I can help you out. It will work. 
 
I have the full version of Sonar but I bought Home Studio just for this Laptop and future live performance using the Playlist. For $50. I really like HS and for me it's run smooth a silk for a few months now. 
 
First I am using W7 which I don't think matters. 
Download and run Latency Monitor    http://www.resplendence.com/latencymon
You may have to do some tweaking and optimizing and turning off Wi Fi is normally a biggy. In my case I can actually leave it on, it's so different for each machine, but you do need to get your DPC under control or audio will drop out. Sonar should not crash but audio dropouts are not very desirable either. 
 
Then the next important factor in a smooth running DAW is your audio system. most DAW's will perform the best if you use a proper audio interface with a good ASIO driver. This generally solves 98% of the issues people have. 
If your planning on recording any audio then you really can't function any other way. Audio interfaces are not expensive starting at around $100 and going up depending on features and in/out count. 
https://www.sweetwater.com/c695--USB_Audio_Interfaces
 
If your only going to be doing mid , which is what I do with my laptop, then you can get by with using the on board audio system using WASAPI exclusive mode found in your audio setting under preferences. 
But what I'm using is ASIO4all which is a step up from WASAPI and its free.  
https://asio4all.en.softonic.com/  
 
 
 

 
 

Thanks for the reply. I was having latency issues, plus on board audio card is crap, so I bought an external USB Sound Blaster. Sounds much better and I have no problem with the audio. I will try disabling the wi-fi. I suppose I can try running sonar as administrator but not sure how that would help

You should contact IK. But other then that, try reinstalling it as administrator mode and set run as admin as well. You should install everything as Admin anyway... )
 
Peace!

Thanks to everyone that offered advice and tips. Turned out to be a windows 8.1 problem. I have had this laptop for at least 4 years and never had BSOD before. I have seen it plenty of times on xp and windows 7. When it happened I did recognize it. Updating all the toshiba drivers fixed it. All better now