I am one of those "well it's always stable for me" folks around here and it's true-Since CWPA6. Upgraded every Sonar except one year, I think 2 to 3. Anyhow, I now can hardly get thru a tune-These are mainly softsynths with guiatr audio and vocal audio, Mostly I am bouncing to tracks. Trying to get down to Audio only, which I have been doing for years. I mean I cannot go 15 minutes. Sometimes 3 minutes. I get the mini dup error dialog and I have sent three to CW-last night.
I was doing the bounces to put them on my laptop for a company gig. Very annoying.
I have not changed anything , My specs are below-plenty of power, RAm, etc.
 
I am hoping I hear from CW. I am going to try again tonoght. But it's not just when I am bouncing. Tried to add a plug to an fx bin in a bus-wham. It's the white screen type Has stopped working or must close, etc. also get the MS send a report error. I thought I turned that off.
 
I have not added or changed anything-except-I am using a wireless network for my laptop. but the daw is hard wired of course.
 
Too vague I know-I will take better notice

Just founsd this:Widgi Toolbar Platform extension in my startup items? Checkingh it out now.

  I would shut down the wireless and see if that helps. Look also at processes in the task manager too see if something is there that shouldn't be. Check your start up tab and see whats loading on start of Win 7. 

stratman : turn off bluetooth and google widgi !! you dont need wireless or onboard sound ..

Hey Guys
I need the router for here. The wireless is the laptop-it's not on. You know, in all the years I have been coming here-more than the date shows I have never posted this much about issues or help-not in 3 nights :-)
Well actually I thgink the laptop was on -I have a few projects that just wouldn't stop crashing last nite. I'll try with the laptop off, although I don't see how that could be it-although there is a lot of sharing between the 2.
 
Be back in a while
Thanks Star and John
 
 

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Well, it's not widggi, it's gone. Not wireless-laptop is off. Crashes every 3 or 4 munutes. I will run a full system scan but I am sorry to say this will force me to cancel the company gig. I cannot edit the projects to get them on the laptop. And the laptop does not have many of the vst's I use-like SSDrums Platinum,\EZ drummer\dim pro, T racks compressor, etc, etc, etc.
 
I will run a full system scan Bit defender 2013 ( I have used Bit defender with Sonar for over 8 years now. It's also been installed for quite a while. I sent 2 more dumps to CW.
 
Gotta sleep now. I'll just let the scan run deep and on all 3 HDs.
 
Thanks guys
edit: I also will revert back to Nvidea drivers I had-updated them 3 weeks ago-but this just started 32 days ago.
I did however update a program I have had for a while and it has a component maade by Spigot(spelling) which is the same copany that makes the widgi toolbar-I will uninstall that also tomorrow. I hope that's not it bwecause it's one of my favorite programs and it's also installed on the laptop and no issues at all with X2 on laptop. But I'll try it. Alcohol 120%, great app Been using it forever

Have you tried defragging your drive? I had a problem like yours with X1, and it went away with a defrag.

startman: 2 things I would like you todo.... go in device manager USB root hub !! in power management see that: Turn off the Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power by unchecking the box then click the OK button.. is set correctly on all roots ! then install Malwarebytes and update it and chk your system. If we cant get this stable in time, your taking your tower to work.. Ive done it many times !!..The show must go on !!

Stratman... As soon as you mentioned adding a plugin and "white screen" I am *assuming* you are having this issue with X2? If so, I posted a message the other day about X2 - my issue was identical - and the root cause was the X2 setup 1 file was bad (yet X2 installed). If you are having this issue with X2, check out that post ( http://forum.cakewalk.com/tm.aspx?m=2731387 ). I put the hash checks of the setup files in there. I went through a lot of re-installs and troubleshooting, and was not the plugin files, but the main program doing it. So far, I have not had the issue recur, but not fully stress tested it yet. Michael