I think it does not like all the links, but thanks for the specs.
I do not know anything much about bootcamp and Macs, but here is the deal on what we were talking about.
Windows has default settings for things like balancing power needs and conserving power, and all of that. For laptops there is sense in that, but not for us POWER users.
What is happening is that the defaults in Windows are set to turn off things like your hard drive, or your monitor, or both, after some number of minutes. It will also go inter hibernate mode, and that sort of thing.
When it does this, it has to fire it all back up again, and when you are in something like a web browser, that's not a big deal. But, if you are in something like Sonar, it has to load all of that stuff back into memory, and that can be a ridiculous amount of stuff, hence the nutty slow downs.
So, the thing to do is to tell Windows NOT to do all that.
There are a couple of places you want to go and make some tweaks:
1. Go to: Control Panel\System and Security\Power Options. Once there, click on High Performance.
2. Now, to the right of that click on the link to Change Plan Settings
3. When that opens up, you should see it set to NEVER for both Turning Off the Display and for Put the Computer to Sleep.
4. Click on Change Advanced Power Settings - that will open up another dialog box
5. Click on the + sign next to where it says Hard Disk.
6. Click on the + sign next to Turn Off Hard Disk After
7. Enter 999 for the Setting. This means it will not turn of the hard disk until 999 minutes with no activity.
8. Click Apply and back your way out of everything - clicking Apply anytime you see it enabled to click.
That should do it. Now your computer will stay awake as long as you do - maybe even longer.
Bob Bone