Screen goes blank

[Jordy]

Hello

Created a Presention and created a CD from it. It starts to play and
everything is OK, at a random points in the slide the screen goes blank, the
music still plays, sometimes it comes back,other times it stays blank for the
rest of the slide show until the end.

Installed lastest SP, did not help..

Thanks

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Are you playing the presentation from the CD? Does it still do this when
you copy it to the Hard Drive?

What size is the PPT file? Have you compressed the images?

Do you have a virus scanner checking the PPT file?

Have you round tripped the presentation thru HTML?


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[Jordy]

Hello

Thanks for the response.

1) Yes from the CD, I will try from the HD
2) 200 MEG, size of PPT
3) Images are compressed
4) Does it computers with/without virus software
5) Not sure what you mean by round tripped thru HTML ?

Thanks

 

[Jordy]

No difference if copied to CD

Thanks

Are you playing the presentation from the CD? Does it still do this when
you copy it to the Hard Drive?

What size is the PPT file? Have you compressed the images?

Do you have a virus scanner checking the PPT file?

Have you round tripped the presentation thru HTML?


--
Bill Dilworth
A proud member of the Microsoft PPT MVP Team
Users helping fellow users.
http://billdilworth.mvps.org
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vestprog2@ Please read the PowerPoint FAQ pages.
yahoo. They answer most of our questions.
com www.pptfaq.com
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[Bill Dilworth]

Strange thing about image compression, it doesn't compress some of the image
formats. 200 megs is pretty large, I would try cutting the presentation in
half then link to the other half.

It sounds like you are having a resource problem (the computer can't keep
all of the presentation handy, so bogs down on what it can't have in
memory). I may be mistaken, but here are the things I would suggest trying.

1) Clean up the hard drive.
Remove all temp files
Defrag the hard drive

2) Close all but the essential programs. The more the CPU has to deal with
the slower it runs. The more programs loaded, the less space for PPT.

3) Cut the file into 2 halves and see if either of them error. If this
fixes the problem, you could link the two presentations together as a
permanent fix.

4) Check again for video driver updates

5) While PNG images are common for use in presentations, they do not
compress (at all) in PowerPoint. If this format was used for your images,
you might benefit from using http://www.rdpslides.com/pptools/optimizer/ To
give you a size comparison, I run a weekly 200+ slide presentation that is
heavily graphic oriented. Mine come in at about 3-5 megs after full
optimization.

At that size, I can't ask you to e-mail the presentation for evaluation.
Let's start with these ideas.


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[Jordy]

Thanks again

1) Same thing on multiple computers
2) No other programs running
3) I have them cut in half now, but cannot find a way to link them. I can
merge them, but how do I link them
4) Multiple machines, different drivers
5) They are jpg images, that might be my problem.

Thanks