Help! I'm losing my mind!

[kenng]

Here's my story sad but true.... (someone should write a song about that)

Due to health reasons I have not operated my Hoster program for 2 years. So far it has fought me from minute one. First I couldn't find the Video connector for the ATI card. Ordered a new one. When it arrived I tried to start it up and the MB was dead. Got another MB. Found out I needed to reload Hoster due to new MB. Thought it would be a good time to load Win XP and Hoster into the new 500MB HDD . Loaded Hoster and then the 3.321 upgrade. Copied the Songbook from the old drive to the new. It spent 119 minutes doing it. Now Hoster either cannot or will not access the .kma files. I even tried it from the original drive. No joy.

I decided to give myself a break and continue hooking up the complete system using a CDG. I cannot get stereo sound from the Audio card (Audigy 2 ZS) and I can't remember how I did it before . I tried using two 1/8" to RCA cables from the sound card to the mixer. Only one channel works. Tried swapping cables, same results. Also tried all the jacks - only one gives me sound.

Now I only do one Karaoke show a year, at our campground (unpaid - donations only) - but the kids and their families love it so I keep doing it even though it has cost me big $$, and it lasts from 18 June to 7 July this year . I am not a paid KJ, nor will I ever be. I just love Karaoke and can't breathe in bars due to the cigarette smoke. I think I am going to need all the time left just getting what I used to have working. I also have a bunch of new CDG's that I collected over the last two years to enter as well.

These are (to me) two huge problems and I would appreciate your input and insight please. I am sure I did something wrong copying the files , but so far have not found anything in the users manual that covers it, and I seem to be clueless about the sound card. It seems to me that I had this problem when I first built the system and a single email solved the problem, but I cannot find the old email.

Thank you in advance for your help, and I think I ran out of smilies as well.

Stay Well and Happy,

Kenn Geiger
Salem, Oregon