With out actuly seeing the error log this is just a guess, but it is probably neither. It's most likely a driver for your sound card. Do you have the latest drivers?

Erm........Soundblaster Live! drivers? latest?.......Yes, they are, if you can call drivers from 1999 "latest"? this, believe it or not, was the last time Creative updated them!!!!
 
Hey GeOph, you think this may be the problem??? any help on this matter would be great......would like to sort it.
 
I really thought it would be Sonar that was causing the problem........it would be nice if it is'nt, cos I'd much rather ditch the soundcard than Sonar.
 
Thanks.

March 2000........Nearly as bad.

I was guessing your sound drivers because Cakewalk is a heavy audio program. It could even be you video drivers. Sometimes if you turn down the hardware acceleration (both video and audio) it will fix some of these problems.
 
Without the error log there really isn't much to go on. I can't really help much more, maybe some one else has some idea's.

Post the log.
 
It is located in Local Files and Settings/All Users/Documents/Dr. Watson.

OK........I'll post it ASAP.
 
Many thanks

Well, this log is from my other machine (SAME, ONLY VIA SOUND INSTEAD OF SBLive!.......SAME PROBLEM, THOUGH)
 
Can anyone make head nor tail of this?......
 
Application exception occurred:
App: (pid=988)
When: 9/10/2001 @ 10:55:00.911
Exception number: c0000005 (access violation)
 
*----> System Information <----*
Computer Name: ****** ****
User Name: Administrator
Number of Processors: 1
Processor Type: x86 Family 6 Model 3 Stepping 1
Windows 2000 Version: 5.0
Current Build: 2195
Service Pack: 2
Current Type: Uniprocessor Free
Registered Organization: *****
Registered Owner: *********
 
*----> Task List <----*
0 Idle.exe
8 System.exe
136 smss.exe
160 csrss.exe
156 winlogon.exe
208 services.exe
220 lsass.exe
384 svchost.exe
412 spoolsv.exe
444 svchost.exe
484 regsvc.exe
500 MSTask.exe
528 WinMgmt.exe
520 Explorer.exe
988 SONAR.exe
352 drwtsn32.exe
0 _Total.exe
 
(00400000 - 00B06000)
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State Dump for Thread Id 0x2d0
 
eax=003e0650 ebx=0012fd4c ecx=00030001 edx=0012fd68 esi=00030000 edi=00000000
eip=086b2480 esp=0012fc9c ebp=0012fccc iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na po nc
cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00000246
 
 
function: <nosymbols>
086b2476 ???
086b2477 ???
086b2478 ???
086b2479 ???
086b247a ???
086b247b ???
086b247c ???
086b247d ???
086b247e ???
086b247f ???
FAULT ->086b2480 ???
086b2481 ???
086b2482 ???
086b2483 ???
086b2484 ???
086b2485 ???
086b2486 ???
086b2487 ???
086b2488 ???
086b2489 ???
086b248a ???
086b248b ???
 
*----> Stack Back Trace <----*
 
FramePtr ReturnAd Param#1 Param#2 Param#3 Param#4 Function Name
0012FC98 77E2481D 00000000 00000001 0012FD4C 00030001 <nosymbols>
0012FCCC 77E24600 00030000 00000001 0012FD4C 086B2480 user32!SetWindowsHookExA
0012FD08 77E2464F 0012FD3C 0012FD4C 0012FD68 00000000 user32!ToUnicode
0012FD2C 77FA032F 0012FD3C 00000030 00030000 00000001 user32!ToUnicode
0012FD90 087D3EFA 0002023B 00000000 00000001 0012FE7C ntdll!KiUserCallbackDispatcher
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 !<nosymbols>
 
*----> Raw Stack Dump <----*
0012fc9c 1d 48 e2 77 00 00 00 00 - 01 00 00 00 4c fd 12 00 .H.w........L...
0012fcac 01 00 03 00 00 e0 fd 7f - 01 00 00 00 00 e0 fd 7f ................
0012fcbc 01 00 03 00 00 00 00 00 - 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 ................
0012fccc 08 fd 12 00 00 46 e2 77 - 00 00 03 00 01 00 00 00 .....F.w........
0012fcdc 4c fd 12 00 80 24 6b 08 - 01 00 03 00 00 e0 fd 7f L....$k.........
0012fcec 01 00 00 00 e4 fc 12 00 - e8 f8 12 00 c0 fd 12 00 ................
0012fcfc 8a 1c e6 77 20 46 e2 77 - 00 00 00 00 2c fd 12 00 ...w F.w....,...
0012fd0c 4f 46 e2 77 3c fd 12 00 - 4c fd 12 00 68 fd 12 00 OF.w<...L...h...
0012fd1c 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 20 00 00 00 4c fd 12 00 ........ ...L...
0012fd2c 90 fd 12 00 2f 03 fa 77 - 3c fd 12 00 30 00 00 00 ..../..w<...0...
0012fd3c 00 00 03 00 01 00 00 00 - 80 24 6b 08 d0 47 e2 77 .........$k..G.w
0012fd4c 7a 02 05 00 13 01 00 00 - 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 z...............
0012fd5c 84 e3 05 00 90 01 00 00 - 9b 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 ................
0012fd6c d7 46 e2 77 00 00 00 00 - 01 00 00 00 7c fe 12 00 .F.w........|...
0012fd7c 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 7c fe 12 00 7c fe 12 00 ........|...|...
0012fd8c 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - fa 3e 7d 08 3b 02 02 00 .........>}.;...
0012fd9c 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 - 7c fe 12 00 00 00 03 00 ........|.......
0012fdac fc fd 12 00 29 02 00 00 - 78 26 13 00 7c fd 12 00 ....)...x&..|...
0012fdbc 04 fe 12 00 28 fe 12 00 - 98 5b 7e 08 ff ff ff ff ....(....[~.....
0012fdcc 1d 48 e2 77 00 00 00 00 - 01 00 00 00 7c fe 12 00 .H.w........|...
 
State Dump for Thread Id 0x3b8
 
eax=00000102 ebx=fd491c70 ecx=00000101 edx=00000000 esi=00144ef0 edi=00144f30
eip=77f82a84 esp=01d5fe28 ebp=01d5ff74 iopl=0 nv up ei pl nz na po nc
cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0038 gs=0000 efl=00000206
 
 
function: ZwReplyWaitReceivePortEx
77f82a79 b8ac000000 mov eax,0xac
77f82a7e 8d542404 lea edx,[esp+0x4] ss:027dd3fb=????????
77f82a82 cd2e int 2e
77f82a84 c21400 ret 0x14
 
*----> Stack Back Trace <----*
 
FramePtr ReturnAd Param#1 Param#2 Param#3 Param#4 Function Name
01D5FF74 77D50781 77D50D7F 00144EF0 00000000 40144998 ntdll!ZwReplyWaitReceivePortEx
01D5FFA8 77D50C7A 00143E08 01D5FFEC 77E8758A 00144DE8 rpcrt4!RpcBindingSetOption
01D5FFB4 77E8758A 00144DE8 00000000 40144998 00144DE8 rpcrt4!RpcBindingSetOption
01D5FFEC 00000000 77D50C62 00144DE8 00000000 00905A4D kernel32!SetFilePointer
 
*----> Raw Stack Dump <----*
01d5fe28 2d 09 d5 77 38 01 00 00 - 54 ff d5 01 00 00 00 00 -..w8...T.......
01d5fe38 48 71 14 00 00 00 00 00 - 08 17 14 00 08 3e 14 00 Hq...........>..
01d5fe48 e8 4d 14 00 66 90 ad fd - b4 1b 49 fd d0 0c 45 80 .M..f.....I...E.
01d5fe58 34 00 00 c0 01 85 c1 fd - 71 36 4a 80 58 88 00 e1 4.......q6J.X...
01d5fe68 b0 1c 49 fd 58 88 00 e1 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ..I.X...........
01d5fe78 02 02 00 00 68 10 45 80 - 01 00 00 00 40 85 c1 fd ....h.E.....@...
01d5fe88 00 00 00 00 10 00 f8 00 - 0a 90 ad fd 7c 00 f8 00 ............|...
01d5fe98 1a 90 ad fd a8 c4 c1 fd - 58 88 00 e1 00 00 00 00 ........X.......
01d5fea8 1f 00 00 00 10 c5 c1 fd - 10 c5 c1 fd 00 00 00 00 ................
01d5feb8 01 00 00 00 10 1c 49 fd - 00 00 00 00 f8 d3 d2 e1 ......I.........
01d5fec8 d4 1b 49 fd 00 00 00 00 - 91 4e 41 80 30 c6 c1 fd ..I......NA.0...
01d5fed8 40 85 c1 fd c4 1c 49 fd - a8 04 45 80 04 00 00 00 @.....I...E.....
01d5fee8 08 90 ad fd 97 db 49 80 - 80 f3 12 00 00 00 00 00 ......I.........
01d5fef8 48 f3 12 00 8f 4d 01 00 - 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 H....M..........
01d5ff08 01 00 00 00 19 00 02 00 - 7b 00 00 00 7a 00 00 00 ........{...z...
01d5ff18 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 - 28 01 00 00 01 00 00 00 ........(.......
01d5ff28 00 20 50 c0 e0 3a a9 fd - 20 20 a9 fd 00 00 00 00 . P..:.. ......
01d5ff38 b0 21 a9 fd 60 1c 49 fd - 46 02 00 00 ec d8 42 80 .!..`.I.F.....B.
01d5ff48 10 2f 06 80 80 21 a9 fd - 20 20 a9 fd 70 1c 49 fd ./...!.. ..p.I.
01d5ff58 00 a2 2f 4d ff ff ff ff - 50 fe d5 01 ff ff ff ff ../M....P.......
 
State Dump for Thread Id 0x3b4
 
eax=0030c638 ebx=00000000 ecx=00309528 edx=00000000 esi=77f827dd edi=000001c0
eip=77f827e8 esp=01f5fec0 ebp=01f5fee4 iopl=0 nv up ei pl zr na po nc
cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=0038 gs=0000 efl=00000246

I was getting that same error message everytime I ran a setup.exe, especially ones that were InstallShield.
 
Anyway, I tried everything to get rid of the Access Violation error and nothing worked.
 
I wound up reinstalling Win2k and now everything runs fine. I know reinstalling is a pain, but have you thought of doing that?
 
Also, you can get updated SB Live drivers here:
http://shs-sound.paraknowya.com/ go down about 1/3 of the page and you will see the SBLive! 5.12.01.3300c WDM drivers. Try them.

The fact that this is occuring on two seperate machines would be a strong indication to me that the problem is with the program and not with the other variables.