LYRICS FREEZING Hoster Crashes

[Roy Dennis]

I have a Dell Inspiring 5150. Must be about 7 years old now but worked fine until recently. I had a problem in Hoster with a time delay in the song cuing up after pressing play. Then last week I was doing some video copying to hard drive C. with Roxio DVD software which has a drive test function, on pressing this it showed drive C. as dropping 269 frames out of 400 but the external drive o.k. I then downloaded a drive test program from the Internet which showed the drive as only 40% and recommended changing.

I have now fitted a new drive 160GB in place of the old 60Gb.

Since doing this, the few hours testing I have done, seems to have cured the cue time delay in Hoster. I always had all my Music .KMA and video files on an external drive. but as the program runs from the C. drive I think it was causing these problems.
So what I am suggesting is get your internal drive checked. This could be a Warning of failure.

I had previously used Microsoft Chkdisk and defraged drive but that didn't
pick up the problem.

Changing the internal drive was quite easy I got a replacement internal drive from www.drivemylaptop.co.uk
They supply the drive with a docking caddy and a CD with "Acronis Migrate Easy" software. You just activate the program plug in the external caddy and choose Disk clone, when it's finished just swap the old drive for the new one switch on. In my case I had to press F2 and highlight boot from Hard drive & save. It then started up with no problems exactly as before but with a bigger hard drive.
In the event of failure to this new hard drive you can always put the old one back in to get you going again, a bit like system restore.

Roy.

[P Stephen]

The hard drive died while updating windows. Just installed a new one. Fixin to update windows and try install of Hoster. Will report back on this soon. Thanks Everybody.

[ddouglass]

Originally Posted by P Stephen

The hard drive died while updating windows. Just installed a new one. Fixin to update windows and try install of Hoster. Will report back on this soon. Thanks Everybody.

Bummer!!

[Roy Dennis]

Just to update everyone.
After doing my show Saturday night I found that I still had the cue delay so it had nothing to do with the fact that my drive was failing, the drive was failing but this was not what was causing the delay. It's funny how it seemed to work OK just testing it at home but when I was really into the show it started again I found the best way around it was to set play to auto then press pause till singer was ready to sing. I am going to check out the black viper site again and see if I can find the answer there.

Roy.

[ddouglass]

Roy,
When you are at home are you plugged into or wireless for internet network?
If so when you do your shows do you disable the network connections?
Reason I ask is if they are not disabled (especially wireless) then they keep searching for a network which steals time from processor to do this.

Are you using two different registrations in the forums??

[P Stephen]

I use a USB Modem for internet. I do not use it at my shows, but thanks for asking. Took me 2 days to update Windows, and I installed Hoster, yesterday. Haven't tried it yet to see if it's going to run without problems, but will test it out this week and post results.

[ddouglass]

Does that laptop have a built-in wireless network card? You should be able to find this by going to Network Connections in the Start Menu. If there is one listed there Disable it.

[Roy Dennis]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Roy,
When you are at home are you plugged into or wireless for internet network?
If so when you do your shows do you disable the network connections?
Reason I ask is if they are not disabled (especially wireless) then they keep searching for a network which steals time from processor to do this.

Are you using two different registrations in the forums??

Dale
I have a wireless connection during the show as I am using a remote sign-up program but I had this problem for some time now even before I used the remote sign up and never had a wireless card fitted. I also get it when I use another program (Rocket Pro) on my DJ only nights. It does not happen all the time it seems to be if there has been a pause in the use of Hoster or the other program, like when I play a fill in song using a digital player then come back to it. If I go directly to the next singer it does not seem to happen. It's like Hoster goes in to hibernation and you have to wake it up.
In answer to your other question, no I am not using two different registrations.
I did post with this problem some time ago but thought I had cured it then this was the original post: http://forum.mtu.com/showthread.php?...ight=cue+delay

Suppose I should have tagged it on to that post.


Roy.

[ddouglass]

I don't know whether more memory would help, but I really don't think it would. I think the problem is switching back and forth between the two programs.
Why not use Hoster for your audio song in between singers?