Hello Bryan,
Let me first say thank you for taking the time to give my unique situation your attention. Incidently, i talked to Mrs Cox i believe it was, there at mtu about ordering a new external writter, just in case mine turns out to be bad. She was so friendly, and helpful, and was very understanding of my situation. You have some wonderful folks working at mtu, and support is first class. I didn't get your call, or message. I have an up to date phone number in my account, just go in there and get it, if you need me to call you, i can do this also. Again, thank you for your attention to this matter.
First off, i do
not go online with my show laptop, only time i do, is a direct link to a Hoster Lite upgrade. I also at the same time do my windows operating system upgrades. I do
not upgrade any hardware, software, firmware, utilities using Windows upgrade. That includes the Optiarc Burner i use for Hoster.
Now, i will try to isolate where i'm at on this matter.
I went and removed the downloaded file mtu Hoster Lite 4.09d. I went to the mtu website, and downloaded it again. Saved it to "My Music".
I Ran the 4.09d file again, and clicked the box where it goes back to default, as dale suggested. It downloaded correctly, and i rebuilt my song data base. I played a few selections from my external hard drive, hoster is playing correctly, smoothly, as always. No problems there.
I closed Hoster and went to "My Computer". There i found my external "Optiarc Drive", as well as the "Internal" CD/DVD drive that is installed on my laptop computer.
The Drive letter for the Optiarc is "F". I opened properties on that drive. I clicked on "Optiarc" and it said the drive is operating good. I clicked it again, and the drawer on the optiarc opened. The computer is seeing the external Optiarc. Great.
Went and opened Hoster Lite again, waited for the splash screen, it opened normally.
Went to Tools, "CD/DVD" clicked on it. It showed my internal drive:
D: Matshita DVD-RAM UJ-8505 1.40 Tested As Good. {Although it will not read or write karaoke graphics}
Also showed my Optiarc Writer.
F: Optiarc DVD RW AD-7170A 1.02
I tested it, "Good" I made this drive my "Default" reading drive, clicked saved, and exited.
I went to "Disc" I put a CDG in the Optiarc writer, filled out a song number, wrote in a song title, and it imported properly. I repeated this process with 5 different CD+G disc of different manufactures.
ALL singers disc imported, and played, and deleted properly. Great
I then went and clicked on import, a drop down menu came with two choices, 1, files, 2, CD Tracks. I clicked CD Tracks, and Hoster Lite sat there,
The import window did not open. I waited 4 minutes. The hour glass time out was showing. I clicked on files, far left to exit Hoster Lite, a notice appeared beside Hoster that read "def001.hst (Not Responding). I then went to the far right, to "X" out of hoster. The screen went white, and i got a windows pop up that said I could close Program, or wait for it to respond. I choose "Close This Program" and exited Hoster Lite.
I reopened Hoster Lite. Went to Tools "CD/DVD" Marked Optiarc External writer as bad. Retested my "Internal" writer:
D: Matshita DVD-Ram UJ-850S 1.40 It tested "Good" {However as i stated before, it will not read or write karaoke graphics}
I now made this internal writer my "Default" Read Drive. Clicked "Save" and closed that menu.
I now went back to the import tab, clicked it. It asked if i wanted to import 1, Files, or 2, CD Tracks. I clicked CD Tracks.
The import window opened!! Great, Hoster Lite likes this drive, but again, this drive "Internal" will not read or write karaoke graphics.
I then place a new, clean, Sound Choice CD+G disc into my internal drive. Hoster reacted normally for a download. I went through the motions of actually downloading this CD+G. It downloaded normally, although no graphics or music appreared. So..that means a external "Optiarc" bad drive??? This laptop is less 8 months old. And it will reconize and open properly with the internal drive? Incidently, i used the internal drive and imported over 400 Video CDG's this spring.
Toshiba
1.86GHz Intel Pentium Dual-Core processor T2390 200GB hard-drive (5400rpm) 2GB PC5300 DDR2 667MHz SDRAM Mobile Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 15.4" 1280x800 display with 720p support and TrueBrite technology Atheros Wireless LAN (802.11b/g) DVD SuperMulti drive Built-in webcam 4 USB 2.0 ports iLink PC Express slot 5-in-1 Bridge Media Adapter Windows Vista Home Premium
I keep all kma files on external "Western Digital" Hard Drives, nothing on my laptop. Tested all 3 of my drives, and rebuilt all 3, all 3 are operating normally.
I keep my Microstudio, KH Pro, Vogone, Keyrite, on my studio computer, NOT my show computer. And this external Optiarc drive works like a champ on those programs, on that computer. Which is a HP Windows XP.
George
