HI Dan, Yes I did send the report, I haven't installed any new software/drivers either. Here's what the report said: Hard disk drive error detected Thank you for submitting an error report. Problem description Windows was temporarily unable to read your hard disk drive. This problem is general in nature and unfortunately we are unable to determine the specific cause of the read error from the error report. In most cases this problem is temporary and can be ignored; however, if the problem is occurring repeatedly we recommend you follow the additional troubleshooting steps in this article. I've done the general steps it recommended, but still getting dropouts. Sure is frustrating! ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rugman To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 1:47 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Dropout's Did windows bring up the error reporting dialogue? If so did you send the report and what did it say? Also, have you made any changes like installing new drivers or software? ----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Jeffrey To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2006 5:42 AM Subject: [ddots-l] Dropout's I've been using Sonar/Cakewalking for about a year, and for no known reason, I have all of the sudden developed dropout's. The tune it is happening in includes one audio track, and a midi one, nothing else. I have worked in Sonar with many audio tracks/MIDI, and have had no drop outs... I really can't figure out what's wrong, and why it just started happening... yesterday afternoon everything was working fine, since then, now I've had several crashes, and the computer seems sluggish. I've ran chk dsk, defrag, and anti-virus... not sure what else to do. Using JFW 7.0, and a 2.6GHZ HP ZD Pavilian notebook, with 1GB RAM, and an Ederal UA 25 for the MIDI/audio into Sonar. Two of the crashes have caused the serious crash message to appear in Windows after restarting, so I hope it's not that, but I was hoping someone out there could offer some thoughts on this problem... I just can't understand how everything could be working perfectly one day, and not the next... anyone else had anything like this happen?