The Long and Winding Road to X1A Stability

Probably should have done this early on but... live and learn.
 
X1A was locking up on me in very short order just playing back a synth track or two (Dim Pro and Rapture).
 
I decided to replace the VIA onboard mobo firwewire with a SIIG TI chip version, just to take it off the table. No love.
 
Based upon some reading, I decided to uninstall and manually purge from the registry every trace of Sonar and Cakewalk and re-install X1A.
 
The registry was a minefield of references; took quite a while to purge. This in combination with the old 386 files and plugins folders... who knows what was pointing where. Doesn't appear that an uninstall cleans up the registry.
 
In any case, so far so good: four audio drum tracks, a Dim Pro, Rapture, Trillian, couple Fab Filter plugs.... looks like I'm rolling! Granted I have not yet put in hours but I'm way further ahead than previously. My rig is humming running well now.
 
I felt I had to give it one more shot prior to X1B and I'm glad I did. Now at least 1B will come in with a new lean and mean setup.
 
Looking forward to digging into Sonar X1 Power and moving on with what I hope will be a stellar DAW when it's all said and done.
 
Thanks to all who share their knowledge and experience here.
 

After about 2.5 hours of throwing a good bit at the program, it finally locked up on playback while synth or effect windows were open. Doesn't crash per se - no message; just freezes. I could still save but playback was geshphinkto.
No Sonnitus delay.
 
I hit save regularly. It's workable and hopefully 1B will remove this last bit of shakiness.

digi2ns


Hi cjak, can I ask what your Playback and Record I/O Buffers are set at, was your Network Card Disabled and Antivirus turned OFF when this occured?

Thanks

Playback and Record buffers set to 128. Perhaps tomorrow I'll try 256. All network functions shut down. Network cased disabled. Anti-v off.
 
Few other flakey things gonig on, like transport becoming partially disabled. It mostly works with the occasional hiccup. Perhaps I can tweak a few hiccups away but I have a feeling there's a gremlin in there somewhere...