My experience of singers pulling the video lead out

[Robster]

I do a lot of mobile shows.
I always secure the s video leads the best i can but very drunk customers can still pull the lead out of the TV side or the laptop when staggering about or even stand on the lead cutting it with high heels when the lead is taped down and in a safety cover!

What i have found is that this can, on my lappy ..shut hoster down and then you lose the second screen out put.
a restart and the second screen still doesnt show ,even with a new lead what i have found is this sort of lead abuse can kick out the small extended desktop tick in windows graphics properties on my laptop. So restarting it hoping it identifies a monitor doesnt work untill you tick the extended box again.

knowing this has meant i booted back up in seconds rather than as the first time scratching my head and me getting fustrated for a good ten minutes before spoting it.

This isnt really a hoster issue i know but i wanted to share this tip for anyone who has this problem so they too can resolve it quickly..

i now secure my leads at both ends but i had one guy fall onto my goal post stand and nearly knock it over ,the stand rocked to me and amps mixer and lappy tipped off , i caught the lappy! it could have been a complete disaster ..literally three minutes later i was up and running and using hoster to cue up the next singer..I doubt a CDG player would have handled that knock as well!

hope this helps some hoster user

rob