Sonar XL trouble

I just upgraded my pc with a Pc Chips mainboard, 2.1Ghz processer,80gig hard drive.dvd rom and cdrw. I have on board sound and video but when I loaded Sonar on my pc when I open it it freezes up, I also have an old copy of Cakewalk 9 and it done the same, now on boot up it said "one or more of your sound cards does not support stereo it has now been set at mono"
Can anyone tell me what is happening please.

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My suggestion is if you can dish out the money for all that, dish out some more money for a nice Audigy card. Integrated sound codecs are not always supported by all applications.

I Agree, Integrated soundcards will cause all types of problems, I bought a Soundblaster Audigy 2 $129 and installed it. I had to go into my bios and disable the integrated soundcard there. Also go into the control panel/ system/ device manager and make sure the integrated card is also disabled there. I have no problems now when trying to run Sonar XL. BTW the Audigy sounds way better than any integrated sound card, plus allows you to use sountfonts in your sonar sequences. Good Luck

Hi m8 I had the same problem with my S/B live card the problem is if you use the latest driver from creative it has a bug in it that shows up the way you described the way around for xp anyway is to go to your device manager/sound,video and game controllers/creative SB live double click and go to driver then to update driver then click install from a specific location then go to don't search i will choose the driver to install click next and install the microsoft driver not the creative one this will sort the problem hope this helps.


Strummer

Generally, integrated aren't good for anything.
I would definately spring the money for a new one. Audigy is good for amature studio, and relatively inexpensive.

After you install the new card, Disable the old one within your system/Device manager, and Check your BIOS/CMOS - disable onboard soundcard from there too if there is an option to do so.

Sonar does carefully look at anything 'audio' on your system - and will report with that annoyance if it finds something it doesn' t like. I was getting that error from my data/fax/voice/speakerphone Modem card before I disabled the audio driver for it