hoster shutdown

[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

[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

[Eric Whitehouse]

All you need is a guest singer to bring in a disc he has previously used as a beer mat, load it into your laptop and you will have problems. I learnt the hard way. Now I always check each of my guest singers discs prior to adding to my playlist, never had any problems since.

[Beavis]

this has to be something MTU can fix.