Hi everybody, I was wondering if anyone has had their Waves licenses disappear from their USB stick before. I hadn't been on my DAW in about a week. I turned the computer on, and it was trying to boot from the CD rom. I don't know how the boot sequence got switched. I am the only one who touches that computer. It's password protected, and I don't even have internet at my house. Anyway, I fixed the boot sequence in the BIOS and got the computer fired up. I noticed my video settings weren't right, so I fixed that. The date and the clock were way off, so I figured my battery died. But when I started Sonar and it did it's VST scan, the Waves Cloud thing popped up and said that I didn't have any licenses. I tried different USB ports, no luck. All the other files on the memory stick are still there. I looked in power management and saw that my settings there had changed too, so I reset them so that it wouldn't power down the ports when idle. All with no luck. The BIOS settings appear to be fine. Any ideas? I'm running Waves version 9.2, Sonar X3e 64bit, and Windows 7 64bit. I know I can just use a computer with internet access and get the licenses back, but I've never had this happen before. I was wondering if any of you have any idea what could my licenses to disappear, when all the other files on the USB stick were unaffected. Thanks for any help you can give, and sorry for such a long post.

I tried suggestions I found on a year old thread that brconflict posted, but no luck. Any help would be appreciated.

Okay, I took my USB stick to a computer that had an internet connection and downloaded the license center. I logged in and it shows the licenses are right there on my USB stick. So why isn't my computer recognizing them? Anybody????

I am wondering why your PC went to CD to boot. That to me suggests maybe a file in Windows system file maybe corrupted and reverted to a previous version.

Thanks for the reply Grem. The thing is, the boot order was messed up in the BIOS. Would Windows have anything to do with that? I'm not the most computer savvy person in the world, so I don't know. But I do know that some Windows settings were messed up too. I don't know if this would have anything to do with it, but when I shut down my studio, I shut down the DAW, then I flip the power conditioner off. So at that point the computer has no power going to it. And I've noticed in the last couple weeks that my clock is wrong and it shows the year as 2004 or something. So I'm figuring the battery in the mobo went bad. Do you think that could have messed everything up?

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...And I've noticed in the last couple weeks that my clock is wrong and it shows the year as 2004 or something. So I'm figuring the battery in the mobo went bad. Do you think that could have messed everything up?

Most definitely!!!

You didn't notice if the date was off in the BIOS also did ya?

And yes normally Windows has nothing to do with the boot order. But if a sys file got corrupted, maybe Windows was looking for an installation disc in the CD drive.

Really at a loss as to what happened. But something changed. Maybe a new installation of something?

Thanks for the replies guys. Yes Grem, the date was off in BIOS too. I did reset it. I did install some plugins recently. I got an email from Crysonic for 18 plugs for $29. Probably dumb of me, but I bought them.

Sure you d/l and installed the correct version.of the plugs?

Yeah, I'm pretty sure. They were in folders labeled Windows and Mac. Maybe it was a coincidence. Why do I get the feeling I'm in for a reformat of my system drive...