Hi Sean, I read your post and one thing caught my attention. It is regarding your Sata drive. I'm not sure why Jaws is doing what you are describing, however, it my be caused indirectly by your Sata drive. The article I'm referring you to, only mentions drop outs with audio applications, but it makes sense that Jaws would also act the way you are saying it is. Take a look at this link. http://www.cakewalk.com/forum/tm.asp?m=45491 Take care Manny -----Original Message----- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sean A. Cummins Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 7:58 AM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Jaws Craching! Dear Gordon, I called you last week before you went to the conference in L.A. regarding a problem I'm now having with JAWS and Sonar 4 and 5. To give you a brief overview, I am using an Alien Area 51 7700 with 3.8 Duel cur processor, 3 Gb of hyper threading Ram, 256 video ram on a NVDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra adaptor, duel 60 Gb serial ATA 7800 rpm hard in a SCSI RAID 0 array, and a SoundBlaster Audigy 2Z PCMCIA sound card for JAWS output with a Tascam FW-1884 for my digital audio interface for Sonar. All on board sound devices have been disabled and a 80 Gb partition has been setup for digital audio only with Windows XP, Sonar Producer 4 and 5 and JAWS 6.2 only. I have followed all recommended articles from CakeWalk and any other optimizing articles I could find from Microsoft. Now after working successfully for several month, JAWS will seem to cause the audio to skip or hick-up once or twice and then JAWS will completely leave the memorie and Sonar will often stop and sometimes crash. Up until about 3 weeks ago, this has been an absolute dream machine working almost flawlessly. I have formatted the 80 Gb partition 7 time in the last week trying to reconfigure the system back to the perfection I once new. Freedom Scientific has no suggestions for the issue and the only way I can now work is to unload JAWS before I go into record or playback. Please give me any ideas you might have. Take Care, Sean A. Cummins ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** ddots-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq