Hello, I've been getting some crackling and intermittent dropouts in Sonar on my quad-core system. I recently loaded some large vsts, (some that take up 40 gigs or more,) onto my machine and am using them within sonar. I know these synths use the ram of the computer heavily. Recently, I posted an inquiry on here regarding another issue I was having with losing sounds for my vsts during a project while trying to play them from my midi controler. I'm also hearing that USB/firewire ringer go off randomly. I'm becoming fairly certain that these issues are all somehow related, and am wondering if power management is an issue. Side note: the fans in my pc are constantly running, even when I havent been using it for several hours, and they weren't doing that before. Any thoughts? Thanks in advance. Omar Binno www.omarbinno.com