Hoster Shutting Down - Stopped Working: Upgrade DirectX and WMP

[Roy Dennis]

Are all your music and Karaoke files on your C drive ?
If so what size is your C drive and how much free space is left?
I ask this as Windows uses some of the hard drive space as a swap file and if you run low on space could cause problems. Also your graphics card is integrated so shares some of the computers memory.

Roy.

[kod]

Roy,

Yes, all my Karaoke and Music is on my C drive. It is a 320GB with 211GB of free space left. (~65% free)

Would I be better off running from a external drive? (I have two as back up's)

KOD

Dell Inspiron 1545, Pentium Dual Core, T4400 @2.2GHz, 4GB RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium W/Hoster 4.20

Sound, Video & Games Controllers
- IDT High Definition Audio CODEC
- Integrated Intel x4500 MHD Media Accelerator Graphics

[ddouglass]

Not as long as you have about 25-50% free space.

[Susan Waites]

I kept having the same problem on my HP laptop after I upgraded to Windows 7.
So I purchased a new Ruggedized Laptop from MTU, thinking that this should stop the problem. I had done everything that I could to stop this from happening on my HP. Well guess what this Laptop is doing it also. Last night during my show it stopped three times. Yes I am glad it does it at the end of a song and not during the song.
So I have no idea what is causing this problem. Buying the Laptop from MTU didn't fix the problem so who knows?

[kod]

Susan,

It's nice to know I'm not the only one with this problem, but as with you, it's still a problem.

The only thing I can add is I keep the Singers search feature and the Song search feature open continuously during my show for quick access. I get tired of having to open them over and over.

KOD

Dell Inspiron 1545, Pentium Dual Core, T4400 @2.2GHz, 4GB RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium W/Hoster 4.20

Sound, Video & Games Controllers - IDT High Definition Audio CODEC - Integrated Intel x4500 MHD Media Accelerator Graphics

[Roy Dennis]

It might help to narrow down the problem if you can note if a specific type of file is playing before the shut down, like CDGCDG HDZIP HDMP3G. If you can note which song was playing at the time and can check it out when you get home. It might give MTU a bit more to go on.

Roy.

[kod]

Roy,
I don't quite understand what you're referring to because I play my Karaoke straight from my hard drive (KMA) files. The files names CDGCDG HDZIP HDMP3G don't really mean anything to me. All my songs come from CDG's.

However, I will start documenting which songs are playing when this happens.

KOD

Dell Inspiron 1545, Pentium Dual Core, T4400 @2.2GHz, 4GB RAM, Windows 7 Home Premium W/Hoster 4.20

Sound, Video & Games Controllers - IDT High Definition Audio CODEC - Integrated Intel x4500 MHD Media Accelerator Graphics