Cubase

I hope someone can help me here.

Basically, my Cubase has been playing up a bit. For some reason there's a huge delay when I try to record my midi keyboard through a VST (in this case, TruePianos and East West's RA), so when I try to play it sounds all jumbled up (even though it probably has recorded properly).

Another problem, is that I'm getting no sound out through my soundcard. Every other application work (and TruePianos / EWRA works on their standalone programs), and I get sound from everything else. But I just can't hear any sound playing back anymore.

Edit: I'm going through USB connections for both soundcard and midi devices, until I can afford the proper equipment.

Edit: Well I got the sound to come out, but there's still huge delay issues. I think that maybe it has something to do with ASIO drivers, in which case I don't think my sound cards are good for. I have a Hi-Fi system set up through USB as my soundcard, and I have a dodgey PCI soundcard.

I have ASIOAll, because a website said it'd fix that, but I have no idea how to use it. =\