Hoster problem

[bryant]

I don't know if this would be a relevant piece of information here but I do know from experience that the 7200 Video card has experienced problems with other programs requiring second monitor video extension. Don't know about the 7300.

I have one and do experience problems with these other programs, as do others. I wish I never had that card.

May or may not apply to hoster, but might serve as a warning for others.

[Monolithent]

I use an nVidia card in my work machine and had similar problems with it dying. I tried updating its drivers using Microsoft's driver and did not fix anything.

However I went to the nVidia site and got their driver and has been smooth sailing for a couple of years. Just a possible solution.

Had a look at their site and they have a lot of information about hotfixes and drivers and DirectX all involving Vista systems (http://www.nvidia.com/object/windows..._hotfixes.html). Might be worth a read.

Good luck with it,

Jon

Monolith Entertainment

[Lloyd Te Kani]

Thanks Monolithent, I certaihnly will try anything at the moment, I'm reaching the desperate stage. Hoster was recommended by a fellow well respected KJ and after some research, quided by Hoster's recommendations, I purchased a new laptop and the Hoster program about 3 months ago and despite following the guidelines in the manual the system has continually failed to operate as I expected. Alas if all else fails, I may have to go to a competitor's product to get my business back on it's feet and obviously further expenditure.

[Monolithent]

I hope all these problems don't steer you away from MTU products.

I'm not in any way affiliated with Micro Technology.

With that said, there is not a better piece of tech out there when it comes to Karaoke software. I tried nearly a dozen and was never happy until I came across Hoster. I have been using it for somewhere around 5 or six years and it has never failed even once.

Part of my job is to be a Systems Administrator for a unit that has over 300 computers and at least 30 different models and/or manufacturers. And for that there have been more problems than I could have imagined. I usually found that the problem was in the computer and not the software.

Don't lose heart. Between the forums and the support folks this will be resolved and you will see how great this program really is.

Jon

Monolith Entertainment

[Monolithent]

Just a thought. I am on my office computer which is a Vista x64 machine and I installed Hoster and many of the other MTU programs on it without problem and it has been working fine even on a vista 64-bit machine (which are notorious for problems).

You have the ability to install Hoster on 2 systems before your licenses are all used up. If it is possible, do you think you could install the program on another machine so you have one useable and you can work off of it if necessary. This will buy you time to figure out the issue with your laptop.

Let me know how that stuff from nVidia works out.

Feel free to email (monolithent@yahoo.com) me if you need any further assistance.

Jon

Monolith Entertainment

[George]

Lloyd,

Just curious.

What does the performance under task manager show the CPU usage to be while a track is playing normally in Hoster, and does it spike upwards at the time of the crash?

[Monolithent]

Normally it isn't CPU overloads that will cause a program error if that happens the computer completely locks-up or shuts down. Not that they are impossible but program failures usually happens in the memory area so it is a good idea to check both.

I have had systems that operate normally until the system tries to access a specific block of memory (which was faulty) and cause an entire system to shut down.

You can check and monitor your system memory also from task manager on the same screen.

Once again not arguing just saying check memory as well. A semi bad stick of RAM can cause all kinds of problems.

Jon

Monolith Entertainment