hoster shutdown

[bobcox- with the Lord]

last night when working i tried to import a song from a singers disc, when i did hoster shut down, i reopened hoster and everything was fine. i then used my player for her song. never happened to me before any ideas why this happened. it was a THM. Bob

[Nitecat]

The same thing happened to me one night. I was afraid to import while a singer was singing after that, which caused a delay when I would import between songs. I don't recall what brand it was.

[bobcox- with the Lord]

Hi' Nitecat. must a been a ghost in computer, sat night i had another singer with his own disc, so with heart in my mouth i imported his songs three diff times and everything was OK. Thanks Bob


Gotta Love This Hoster Thing

[Nitecat]

I'll have to try it again myself. Will keep you posted on what happens. Thanks.

[Digital Party]

I will be keeping an eye on this one.......

[bobcox- with the Lord]

Hi' Guys, tried it again at home about 10 times, with other programs running such as mm jukebox and ecel worked just fine, if that girl comes back friday i will ask to use her disc again, just to see what happens. ill post back when i find out. Bob

[Beavis]

doesnt it suck that things only happen when your at a gig !!!

[songpony]

The only glitch I've had while importing from a singer's disk was when the song currently playing was also one that was imported from disk. When I did this, the music kept going but the on-screen lyrics froze for about 20 seconds. When it "un-froze", they were at the right spot and everything was back to normal. I've been leary to attempt this again, trying only to load a song from CD when a .kma song is playing. Anyone else experience this? Again, I don't know if it was a one-time glitch or something that would consistently happen.

[Nitecat]

Well, I didn't have a chance to try importing a singer's disc again while playing a song. This time at my show while a singer was singing, my entire computer screen went black and my computer shutdown. On top of that, I could never get the computer to turn back on. I was back to flipping discs all night. Yikes! I keep having trouble. When I got home, I tried out the laptop and geez, it powered up and worked just fine. Must have been another ghost!

Compaq 2.8
Windows XP
SP2
9200 ATI

[Digital Party]

I had a computer shutdown because of heat once........could this be a problem? How long had you been playing by the time the shut-down occured?

[bobcox- with the Lord]

when i first started useing Hoster about my 3rd gig that happend to me thank god it was end of night when i got home i set it up and it would not boot. turned out to be a stuck key on ibm keyboard that i had got used, got a new key board and never happend again, by the way i used that girls disc again on thurs, same song imported perfect no problem. must of been just one of those things, and i hope just a one time thing. Bob

[Nitecat]

I hadn't been running more than an hour at the most when my pc shut down. I doubt if it was a heat problem. If a key stuck, I wouldn't know. Everything worked fine once home and I have no idea why it happened. Any other ideas?

[Eric Whitehouse]

I had a similar experience about 6 weeks ago and when I checked the singers disc it was marked and dirty. Could an unreadable disc be the problem ?

[Nitecat]

The singer had been singing a song that was from my kma songs database. It was not a singer's disc, so can't be that. Someone here at work suggested that my AC power may not have been plugged in all the way and I may have been running off battery power, which could have run out. I really thought I checked all the cables when this happened, but it's hard to know now what might have happened.

[KickinKaraoke]

Hello Nitecat,

Well if you go to "Start\Settings\Control Panel\Power Options" then on the "Advanced" tab and check the "Always show icon on taskbar" You will be able to see if your running on AC Power ot the battery.

Best,

Roger

[mindonstrike]

Could the vents be getting blocked at your gig where as there not at home? On my laptop (which I don't use for karaoke) there's only about a 1/4" clearence between the exhaust fan on the bottom and the table. If this gets blocked you can over heat, same with the intake vents on the side. It might not be a bad idea to rest the laptop on a couple of short pieces of 1x2 to make it easier for the computer exhaust excess heat.

I use two shuttles that sit in my equip rack, and the only time I had problems like you describe I discovered I forgot to open the back of the rack to let out exhausted hot air.

Heat is a mortal enemy of electronics, even if the heat is not sufficient to cause the item to shutdown it will over time cause components to fail prematurly , which is why you'll find that many businesses that have a "computer room" air condition it to the point of being uncomfortably cold.

Another possibility is a bad power supply. One of my shuttles would shutdown and try to reboot at totally random times, sometimes after 5 minutes, sometimes after 5 hours and sometimes after 2 weeks. I struggled with this for several months untill I replaced the power supply and have'nt had a problem since (about 8 months now).

Hope this helps.
Sam

[admin]

Originally Posted by Nitecat

I hadn't been running more than an hour at the most when my pc shut down. I doubt if it was a heat problem. If a key stuck, I wouldn't know. Everything worked fine once home and I have no idea why it happened. Any other ideas?

Your computer can overhead within minutes if the air vents get blocked. An hour is MORE than enough time to overheat. Also, until it cooled back down overheating would probably prevent the computer from restarting.

Make sure you keep your air vents open....

[Nitecat]

I have run this laptop for Hoster using the exact same setup for 4-5 hours at a time with no problems before. Based on all of your suggestions, I will consider raising the laptop somehow so it's guaranteed to have good airflow underneath. Thanks for all of the advice. This forum is great. It's nice how everyone seems to come to one's rescue.

[mindonstrike]

Another thought. Note the time these things happen and go to start/control panel/administrative tools/event viewer. Maybe your computer will tell you whats going on.

Sam

[bobcox- with the Lord]

Eric i thinks your on to something. i set up at home opened 3 programs like i do at gigs, let it cook a couple of hrs, then i took a disc smeared it with my fingers made it pretty dirty, (and hoster shut down) when i tried to import it while another song was playing. dirty disc who woulda thunk Bob