Thanks, Phil. Yes, I unplugged everything and tried it again. Would you explain reprofiling the soundcard in Sonar and where to do this? The only thing I recall that could have caused this is that I tossed my headphones aside during the boot up and then later found them lying on the mouse, which made me wonder if some type of click was performed. Normally the two pop-ups that come up before the Desktop arrives go away with the press of the spacebar--these two are because there is currently no router hooked up for Internet access. These two appeared but then the FW1884 appeared as well. After venturing to find out what was happening, Sonar also gave fatal error messages and needed to close. Man, I hope I didn't totally screw up something. I plan to have a sighted partner take a look tonight. I'll keep you guys posted. Thanks, Phil. Any other comments would be appreciated. S.B. From: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Help needed, please... Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:33:49 +0100 Hmm, normally that dialog will come up if you haven't turrned the FW-1884 on. As for the sound issue, have you tried reprofiling the card in Sonar? Regards, Phil Muir Accessibility Training Telephone: US (615) 713-2021 UK+44-1747-821-794 Mobile: UK +44-7968-136-246 E-mail: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: www.accessibilitytraining.co.uk/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Stacy Blackwell To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, June 26, 2009 2:28 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Help needed, please... Hi all. I must have done something by accident during boot up. I got this FW 1884 Control Panel dialog that wouldn't go away. I finally entered on it and it brought up tabs for MIDI Control, Routing, FE 8, etc. These also continued to keep popping up and would not close. I kept rebooting. I finally got one chance of reaching a project. The sliders moved on their own on the FW 1884, but there was no sound. I rebooted and once again experienced the FW 1884 Control Panel dialog again. JAWS was also not acting right for it was changing as it had to keep reading the different dialogs. Any ideas what I did or what can be done? I will have sighted assistance this weekend. I am not a Sonar or DAW techee. Thanks in advance. S.B. Hotmail® has ever-growing storage! Don’t worry about storage limits. Check it out. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_BR_life_in_synch_062009