DAO Installation Problem

[gpayne]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

George, did you get the same error the second time? Did it give you a number?

I seem to remember that when we were Beta testing this version, several of us had a problem with the song.mdb file being corrupt. This could be the case here since DAO is an Access problem. Try deleting your song.mdb file. Then open Hoster. If this was the problem then it should rebuild the song.mdb file and all will be well.

For your problem with the Plextor drive the only thing I can think of is firmware update for the drive. I know there is one on Plextor site as I saw it listed today. I have a 760 also, so I need to update mine as well.

Hope this works.

I did get the same error #. It is 1706 (No valid source could be found for product DAO. Windows Installer cannot continue). However, I only get this error code after Windows repeatedly trys to find the DAO installation package and I finally hit the cancel key.
I did delete the song.mdb and songbackup.mdb files. When I started Hoster, this is what happened:

1. I start Hoster.
2. The next screen says Please wait while Windows configures DAO(Gathering Information).
3. The progress bar starts across its box but stops.
4. Another popup box comes up and says. "The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable. In the middle of the popup box there is a line that says "Click OK to try again or enter an alternate path to a folder containing the installation package DAO.msi in the box below." The box below contains the folder where Windows is looking for the installation package. This location is c:\Docume~1\Locals~1\temp\_is2 something.
5. I click ok several times with the same results.
6. I click cancel
7. I get the 1706 error.
8. I click ok.
9. Hoster starts and automatically rebuilds the database.
It appears to me that the new installation or upgrade installation of Hoster triggers the DAO installation. The installation of Hoster must delete the prior DAO installation and so it must be installed again. It also appears to me that if I could point Windows to the location of the DAO installation package, it might be able to install it and everything would be fine.
After Hoster starts, I can search for songs etc. and it finds them, they will play and everything seems fine but I have not tested everything I might do during a show.

I am able to import a cdg disk into the playlist. I have not tried to import anything into the database as of yet.

Do you know if Hoster deletes files and rebuilds them or what Hoster does when you select upgrade installation option?

As for my Plextor, I believe I have the latest firmware upgrade because that is the first thing I do after I get a new drive is to check for firmware updates but I will check their website. The drive seems to working fine though.

Thanks
gpayne

[gpayne]

Originally Posted by gpayne

I did get the same error #. It is 1706 (No valid source could be found for product DAO. Windows Installer cannot continue). However, I only get this error code after Windows repeatedly trys to find the DAO installation package and I finally hit the cancel key.
I did delete the song.mdb and songbackup.mdb files. When I started Hoster, this is what happened:

1. I start Hoster.
2. The next screen says Please wait while Windows configures DAO(Gathering Information).
3. The progress bar starts across its box but stops.
4. Another popup box comes up and says. "The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable. In the middle of the popup box there is a line that says "Click OK to try again or enter an alternate path to a folder containing the installation package DAO.msi in the box below." The box below contains the folder where Windows is looking for the installation package. This location is c:\Docume~1\Locals~1\temp\_is2 something.
5. I click ok several times with the same results.
6. I click cancel
7. I get the 1706 error.
8. I click ok.
9. Hoster starts and automatically rebuilds the database.
It appears to me that the new installation or upgrade installation of Hoster triggers the DAO installation. The installation of Hoster must delete the prior DAO installation and so it must be installed again. It also appears to me that if I could point Windows to the location of the DAO installation package, it might be able to install it and everything would be fine.
After Hoster starts, I can search for songs etc. and it finds them, they will play and everything seems fine but I have not tested everything I might do during a show.

I am able to import a cdg disk into the playlist. I have not tried to import anything into the database as of yet.

Do you know if Hoster deletes files and rebuilds them or what Hoster does when you select upgrade installation option?

As for my Plextor, I believe I have the latest firmware upgrade because that is the first thing I do after I get a new drive is to check for firmware updates but I will check their website. The drive seems to working fine though.

Thanks
gpayne

I still need some help with this!

Would MTU like to jump in sometime???

gpayne

[admin]

Bryan is on vacation this week, but I will email him to take a look at this. If he can't answer, he will be back on Monday.

I would NOT do an upgrade when you are having problems. Run the Hoster 3.310 Installation program and select REMOVE. This will remove Hoster and related installed components.

Then, run the Installation program again, and it will want to install from scratch. Do this and post back here what happens.

Hoster includes the Access 97 Jet Engine install package. This should add Access 97 to your computer. I don't remember anyone having a DAO error, which as Dale said is related to the database, after doing a REMOVE and INSTALL.

[gpayne]

Originally Posted by admin

Bryan is on vacation this week, but I will email him to take a look at this. If he can't answer, he will be back on Monday.

I would NOT do an upgrade when you are having problems. Run the Hoster 3.310 Installation program and select REMOVE. This will remove Hoster and related installed components.

Then, run the Installation program again, and it will want to install from scratch. Do this and post back here what happens.

Hoster includes the Access 97 Jet Engine install package. This should add Access 97 to your computer. I don't remember anyone having a DAO error, which as Dale said is related to the database, after doing a REMOVE and INSTALL.

Thanks!

I was going to try to do the remove option but I thought I would wait to get some feedback. I will do an install with the delete option and let you know.

[gpayne]

Originally Posted by gpayne

Thanks!

I was going to try to do the remove option but I thought I would wait to get some feedback. I will do an install with the delete option and let you know.

I just did a new install with the delete option. I got the same results. No need to bother Bryan on his vacation. It's not that big a deal. When he gets back you might ask him if the following scenario would or could cause the DAO problem.
1. I have Hoster 3.310 on my non-show compueter.
2. I have been importing bin files on that computer.
3. I then transferred them to the hard drive on my show computer which had Hoster 3.303 on it.
4. I deleted the songs.mdb and songs backup.mdb on the show computer.
5. I then started the show computer and Hoster 3.303 automatically rebuilt the database.
6. After doing this and playing two shows on the show computer, I tried to upgrade the show computer to Hoster Version 3.310.

This is when I started having the DAO installation problem.

This might be someting that effects it or not. I do have all!!!! windows xp and Office xp updates. They are current as of yesterday!

Thanks

gpayne

[admin]

Excellent facts for us to go on. We all want to get to the bottom of this. We are studying the Plextor drive models you have to see if there may be a wrong definition structure for them that might cause this.

The code we are using is new to us from a reputable vendor. All drives that are "claimed" to be supported have been "assumed" to already be proven. However, I'm beginning to question that.

The question yet to be determined is what is causing this and how to fix it.

[barrp]

Was there ever a solution for this? I'm having the same problem and running the same 760A drive, but this drive has not worked for a few months and I'm using an external drive to load cdg's. chemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

Hoster 3.310 is also locking up while trying to read cdg's from my external drive that had worked with the old version.

This is the same computer that has been running Hoster for over a year with a new hard drive. I tried the 3.310 upgrade on the old drive before adding the new drive, and did not get the error message but Hoster did lock up trying to load cdg's.