+1 on the setup. Please list the following information:
1. What driver version for your audio interface are you running?
2. Do you have Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 installed?
3. What Sample Rate and ASIO Buffer Size are you using for your audio interface?
4. What Sample Rate are you using with Sonar? (It must match what you use on your audio interface)
5. What Record Bit-Depth are you using with Sonar? (Check in Preferences>File>Audio Data>Record Bit Depth)
6. What kind of USB port is your audio interface plugged into? (USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 - make sure you use USB 2.0)
7. Make sure your project (for testing to isolate your issue's cause) does NOT have any 32-bit plugins loaded. Ideally, for figuring out what is happening here, you should not have ANY plugins loaded. (They can be added later, after finding out why you are crashing)
8. If Sonar crashes, PRIOR to restarting your system, I would like you to go into Task Manager, and see if SONARPDR is still running, or if BitBridge is running.
So, please review and respond to each of the above, and we will try to assist you in figuring out what is causing your problems.
Bob Bone