I need some suggestions for song book and DB

[N181RV]

This sure is a nice place to get fast information.
I'm so new to this here place that I didn't even notice the join Dates of us newcomers.

Well, I got the songs deleted. Now to find the distortion problem.

Here is some more info. I just got the machine from HP a couple of weeks ago. It has a 2.0Ghz AMD duo core processor. Running XP pro. and a hundred gb HD. I have a pretty fresh issue of Hoster, perhaps a month old.

I Probably have plenty of resources. I only have 2300 songs and I have dedicated the notebook to MTU and Adobe Photoshop.

I have not checked for Soundcard driver updates but I will. I Have the auto up dates turned on for Windows but it always asks me first. I think I need to turn them off and go through the list once in a while to see what is needed and go that route.

I have not setup Norton yet and may not if I keep this machine off the internet. But that don't mean it won't keep trying to get me to load it .

I had that distortion problem happen again tonight and it went long enough that I changed songs and the new song came up With the distortion and pretty soon it stopped. It may have lasted a minute and a half or two minutes over all. I did some checking and the graphics were Not slowing down and the graphics were not distorted. Although Saturday, They were distorted and appeared to run a bit slower. I will analyze this more as I continue testing it. I do not do this for a business so I am not in a bind for it. I will be doing some church things for kids and I want it to run as good as I can make it.. I have a JVC changer and I can always fall back on it if I need to, but the more I use Hoster, the better I like it.

Over the weekend, I had some CD drive problems (it wouldn't open, except with a paper clip) so I called the Tech support. It is almost always a mistake to do this. They ran me through their "cheat sheet" gamut and finally we got it working for a day then it shot craps again. I called in to explain this and they took me on a different road race, but when we finished, it was opening ok again.

So this morning while you all were at work, I got up about 9 am and turned on the laptop. The secondary monitor would not work. I went into control panel and set everything the "right" way and it still would not show the graphics. I got a blue screen and boot up graphics would come up but soon as I got the desk top screen on the laptop, the second screen just stayed blue.

I went to "restore" and engaged the "time machine" and took it back to Saturday. Presto, the second graphics worked and the cd drive still opens up. So somewhere between Saturday and Sunday, I got something installed that it didn't like.

At 67 years old, I just don't like complicated things. Since my old lady is at Bingo tonight, I think I will just turn the flying squirrels loose in the living room and enjoy myself with a good movie...

Bear with me and soon I will be operationg like an "old" pro...

Thanks again...
Phil in Illinois

[Beavis]

Originally Posted by N181RV

This sure is a nice place to get fast information.
I'm so new to this here place that I didn't even notice the join Dates of us newcomers.

Well, I got the songs deleted. Now to find the distortion problem.

Here is some more info. I just got the machine from HP a couple of weeks ago. It has a 2.0Ghz AMD duo core processor. Running XP pro. and a hundred gb HD. I have a pretty fresh issue of Hoster, perhaps a month old.

I Probably have plenty of resources. I only have 2300 songs and I have dedicated the notebook to MTU and Adobe Photoshop.

I have not checked for Soundcard driver updates but I will. I Have the auto up dates turned on for Windows but it always asks me first. I think I need to turn them off and go through the list once in a while to see what is needed and go that route.

I have not setup Norton yet and may not if I keep this machine off the internet. But that don't mean it won't keep trying to get me to load it .

I had that distortion problem happen again tonight and it went long enough that I changed songs and the new song came up With the distortion and pretty soon it stopped. It may have lasted a minute and a half or two minutes over all. I did some checking and the graphics were Not slowing down and the graphics were not distorted. Although Saturday, They were distorted and appeared to run a bit slower. I will analyze this more as I continue testing it. I do not do this for a business so I am not in a bind for it. I will be doing some church things for kids and I want it to run as good as I can make it.. I have a JVC changer and I can always fall back on it if I need to, but the more I use Hoster, the better I like it.

Over the weekend, I had some CD drive problems (it wouldn't open, except with a paper clip) so I called the Tech support. It is almost always a mistake to do this. They ran me through their "cheat sheet" gamut and finally we got it working for a day then it shot craps again. I called in to explain this and they took me on a different road race, but when we finished, it was opening ok again.

So this morning while you all were at work, I got up about 9 am and turned on the laptop. The secondary monitor would not work. I went into control panel and set everything the "right" way and it still would not show the graphics. I got a blue screen and boot up graphics would come up but soon as I got the desk top screen on the laptop, the second screen just stayed blue.

I went to "restore" and engaged the "time machine" and took it back to Saturday. Presto, the second graphics worked and the cd drive still opens up. So somewhere between Saturday and Sunday, I got something installed that it didn't like.

At 67 years old, I just don't like complicated things. Since my old lady is at Bingo tonight, I think I will just turn the flying squirrels loose in the living room and enjoy myself with a good movie...

Bear with me and soon I will be operationg like an "old" pro...

Thanks again...
Phil in Illinois

i would go to the manufacturers website for your audio card and update the drivers.



thanks admin.

[bill moore]

I hate to say this but it sounds like the op system did not load right at hp

when you shut down it did not save your video setting that is why you had to go back to a old restore

with all the diff problem you are seeing i whould have them reload the op system or if you know how to do it your self try a few more things if it does not help reload you op system good luck

[N181RV]

Yes there may be some facts involved here. I am going to play with it more and find out just exactly what is happening because I don't have a lot of stuff on here yet. It should be almost a virgin system.

Thanks for the suggestions. This is what keeps me motivated.

Phil, Litchfield, IL

[ddouglass]

Phil, I just hope we don't overwhelm you with help. All of the people who have offer suggestions are good well informed (educated?) computer users and technicians.
Since you have said you just got the system, I totally agree with Bill Moore and would have HP reload Windows and the programs they include with the package. Then go to their website and get all of the latest drivers for the video, sound, and motherboard. Many times the larger manufacturers will lag behind on updating their setup discs by as much as 6 months.

Originally Posted by N181RV

So this morning while you all were at work, I got up about 9 am and turned on the laptop. The secondary monitor would not work. I went into control panel and set everything the "right" way and it still would not show the graphics. I got a blue screen and boot up graphics would come up but soon as I got the desk top screen on the laptop, the second screen just stayed blue.

Your problem here most likely would be that the secondary monitor wasn't on when you fired up the laptop? This will cause the secondaries settings to revert to default (off). Be sure you have the secondary on, power up the laptop, right click on desktop and go to properties (shorter than going to control panel), go to last tab (Settings) click on monitor #2, check to make sure "extended desktop" is on, right click again on #2 and "Activate".
Next time you turn the laptop on make sure the second monitor is on first.