Thanks. I am still trying to sort this issue out. I spent two hours on the line to Waves support last Wednesday night (they called me back). They tried everything, and eventually they isolated the issue to the Intel graphic adapted driver, that neither I nor Waves tech could update - it just produced an error message. I have two graphic adapters and the AMD driver updated without an issue.
They told me to contact HP who have said they are looking into it and will call me tomorrow.
As things stand, it is worse than before Waves support got involved, in that Sonar now crashes every time within a minute or two of loading a Waves plugin, but is 100% stable if I don't use their plugins. Currently, and on Waves advice, the Intel graphics adaptor is disabled. To be continued.