Hoster problem

[Beavis]

Originally Posted by bryant

I must be doing something wrong then, I clone my 40 gigbyte HD (30 gig of info) and it takes all night.

what software are you using b ?

[goonie227]

Originally Posted by Monolithent

Just answering the question from above about what is a battery backup.

The good ones are essentially a really heavy power/spike/surge strip with a battery incorporated that allows a battery to supply electricity to usually certain plugs on the strip in the event of power failure long enough to shut down a computer or other critical system safely.

The added advantage of many of these is that they operate as a power conditioner as well by running power through the battery. The battery sends out a very stable amount of electricity and prevents fluctuations. The fluctuations may be what is causing the hum in the system.

Other possible options could be bad or insufficient sheilding on power and audio cables that are too close to each other or something is wired wrong causing a ground loop.

I recommend a power conditioner to anyone using a PA system for any purpose. Prevents problems and might even keep equipment from wearing out as soon. I wouldn't recommend running an amp or any heavy draw items through a battery backup. I have had experiences with the batteries failing due to excessive power draw.

By the way, I'm glad to hear you got running Lloyd. I replied to your email, by the way. Sorry it took so long.

Jon

Monolith Entertainment

Yeah what he said mine will run the coputer, amp & TV for about 4 Minutes with the power out great for when drunks kick the cord out of the wall.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by Beavis

what software are you using b ?

Acronis true image: Someone on here (can't remember) said they use it too.
Seems like they said it takes a while as well.

I'd like to shorten that time (all night) however?

[chrosme]

Hi Lloyd...
I just to have laptop pc (hp) and it was running under windows Vista.
I just to work at DELL and also have a Latitude pc, but I believe the
problem your having is not related to a hardware Issue, it is the operative system (VISTA).
I tryed using my Hp running VISTA and hoster found a problem over and over.
My recomend is to downgrade your pc to win xp, wich is more stable than vista, will improve the system resources like processor and ram memory.

I hope this can help you...

regards.

Chris

Originally Posted by Lloyd Te Kani

OK, let me re-cap. Guided by MTU recommendations, I purchased a Toshiba Laptop with Nvidia graphics card and bought the Hoster software so that I could run my twice weekly karaoke show using state-of-the-art technology. It has never operated as expected despite the fact that I have downloaded all windows updates, Nvidia drivers etc and despite the fact that I have followed the changes in settings recommended by MTU in their manual even tho they were obviously printed for Win 2000/XP users etc. I've had my laptop system checked over by the Toshiba people under warranty and all is operating as it should.

Putting it simply, the problem is that when I run the "Hoster" software, it will at some stage just simply go blank whilst is it playing a song and the music will stop. I then move the mouse which causes the screen to re-activate and a blanked-out replica of the Hoster screen re-appears over the desktop screen and an error message appears reading "Hoster Application has stopped working", followed by the words " A problem caused the program to stop working correctly. Windows will close the progra m and notify you if a solution is available." I then close this window and investigate further but so far Windows has failed to find that solution. On advice received from other thread contributors I've just studied Task Manager during a couple of such failures. On the first occasion, the CPU usage spiked to 36% but there was no real difference in Memory. On the second failure there was no discernible difference in either reading............so there you have it. I appreciate all input but so far it seems I've invested in a "lemon". Apologies for rambling on. Can anyone help further. My second computer is a Pentium 4 desktop running XP. Guess what?? No problems with that one so far, touch wood.

[hwheeler43]

I use Acronis True Image. Fantastic program. I image my 227gb drive at work in about half an hour. It only has about 30gb of space used on the drive though. I will say that it works great because i had to restore from image last week due to a problem with a new software installation and I was able to restore my machine in less than an hour. I am not familiar with other imaging programs. With Acronis you do the image right in Windows. You do not have to go to a dos prompt or anything like that. They say you can keep working on things while doing it, but I close all open programs just to be safe.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by hwheeler43

I use Acronis True Image. Fantastic program. I image my 227gb drive at work in about half an hour. It only has about 30gb of space used on the drive though. I will say that it works great because i had to restore from image last week due to a problem with a new software installation and I was able to restore my machine in less than an hour. I am not familiar with other imaging programs. With Acronis you do the image right in Windows. You do not have to go to a dos prompt or anything like that. They say you can keep working on things while doing it, but I close all open programs just to be safe.

I'll have to time it carefully next time I clone (next week) my 40 gB HD (32 gB used). From what I've heard on here, it shouldn't ever take more than a 1/2 hour.

[George]

Looks like the terms CLONING(Ghosting), and IMAGING are getting muddled.

Read here: http://www.williamaford.com/CloningaHDD.php

Norton Ghost does both clone or image, but I use clone because my back up D:\ drive is an exact working duplicate of my C:\ and in a jam I don't have to mess around restoring. I can immediately change drives, and keep on working with whatever I'm doing, and do the restore later.

My understanding that cannot be done with imaging as imaged files are non-bootable and must be restored befor they can be used.

There must be some reason why Norton Ghost offers both.

Don't mind being corrected if wrong. Pays to learn something new.

Only reason I brought this up is I don't believe we're all on the same page.

[hwheeler43]

Acronis True Image does both as well. I just use the image feature so that I can just keep the image on an external hard drive and do updates every couple of weeks. I am sure that both programs are great.

[bryant]

Are you saying you update the image only every few weeks, so you don't have to clone the entire drive every time?

[hwheeler43]

That is correct. Acronis allows you to just update the image. Sorry it took me so long to respond.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by bryant

I'll have to time it carefully next time I clone (next week) my 40 gB HD (32 gB used). From what I've heard on here, it shouldn't ever take more than a 1/2 hour.

It took ten hours to complete, anyone using Acronis true image know what preferences I should be using. There was a string of preferences to set before cloning actually started?

[Monolithent]

I have a copy of it but I use Norton Ghost.

I will try to find time run Acronis tomorrow and let you know what settings I used.

I have only used it once on a work machine and it was exceptionally quick, if memory serves.

Are you using a bootable disc or is it installed on your computer? Makes a difference in what settings to use.

Jon

Monolith Entertainment

[hwheeler43]

I select the hard drive I want to image. Obviously you have to select the external to back it up to and name the file. I use Automatic for size and Normal for compression. I do not enter a password on the password screen. I think that is about it. I have 8.0 at work and 10.0 at home. I heard that 11.0 is out, but I have not upgraded. My backup drive at home is a usb drive and I have 2 external firewire drives and an external usb drive at work. It has never taken over 30 to 40 minutes to image one of my hard drives. I also ensure that I make a bootable cd for each machine backed up. I make sure the external drive is powered up so that it is recognized. When creating the bootable cd I select the full program (I think that is the option). I hope all goes well with your image. I can tell you that I have restored several of my machines from their images when users installed software that caused issues. I have a tendancy to research before getting software and found some good write ups on Acronis. Norton Ghost also had good write ups. Its all good. have a blessed weekend and good luck.

[alec.c]

Originally Posted by bryant

It took ten hours to complete, anyone using Acronis true image know what preferences I should be using. There was a string of preferences to set before cloning actually started?

10 hours?.... no way!!

[bryant]

Originally Posted by hwheeler43

I select the hard drive I want to image. Obviously you have to select the external to back it up to and name the file. I use Automatic for size and Normal for compression. I do not enter a password on the password screen. I think that is about it. I have 8.0 at work and 10.0 at home. I heard that 11.0 is out, but I have not upgraded. My backup drive at home is a usb drive and I have 2 external firewire drives and an external usb drive at work. It has never taken over 30 to 40 minutes to image one of my hard drives. I also ensure that I make a bootable cd for each machine backed up. I make sure the external drive is powered up so that it is recognized. When creating the bootable cd I select the full program (I think that is the option). I hope all goes well with your image. I can tell you that I have restored several of my machines from their images when users installed software that caused issues. I have a tendancy to research before getting software and found some good write ups on Acronis. Norton Ghost also had good write ups. Its all good. have a blessed weekend and good luck.

I use it for backup only. And when I select "automatic" it specifies to use this only if you plan on removing the original HD data, which I am not, as I only want a backup. So I choose manual, which it specifies to do if I want to keep my original HD data, which I do.

I, however, backup to an ext. HD 250 gig (only one I got extra for this purpose right now), which is on a usb1.0 (not 2.0) 512 mB machine. Would all this create the time problem being too long?

Just trying to get it to 20 minutes like you guys.

[hwheeler43]

With usb 1.0 it will take a long time. Big difference in the transfer rates between the old usb and the new.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by hwheeler43

With usb 1.0 it will take a long time. Big difference in the transfer rates between the old usb and the new.

The difference of 9 hours and 40 minutes???
Is that possible?

[bryant]

My computer is described below, is it possible to upgrade to a usb2.0 somehow on this? Anyone have any idea?

[bobcox- with the Lord]

If you have an open pci slot, you can add a card.
i have one with 4 usb 2.0 ports.
about $20 at www.newegg.com . Bob

[bryant]

Originally Posted by bobcox

If you have an open pci slot, you can add a card.
i have one with 4 usb 2.0 ports.
about $20 at www.newegg.com . Bob

Does the computer itself need some internal controllers as well, as this computer is kinda old, I mean it came with only two usb 1.0 in the first place?