14 slides, 14 audios, 8-10 audios play

[uuguru]

Cannot get a 2003 Powerpoint slideshow to consistently play the show and have
all slides play their slide specific audio.

Its kind of like 'musical chairs' as one time most audios play (always with
their respective assigned audios).

By that I mean various slides fail to play their individual audio and when
playing the slideshow again (after closing it), the slideshow doesn't always
play with the same audios failing. Very strange.

What in the world could be causing audio's from playing, corrupt ActiveX or
audio drivers?

Kind of guessing here, but to check if my audio 'card' is the issue,
(drivers corrupted), I suppose a quick uninstall and re-boot might fix the
issue, and then if not, downloading a fresh set of drivers would be the way
to either fix things of rule that out as the cause, right?

Realtek AC97 Audio (potential cause) Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast
Ethernet NIC (shouldn't or couldn't be potential cause, right?). 2006
install of ASPI layer for Windows XP (might be possible cause?).

FYI, my Office 2003 fixes are bare bones w/KB887616, 905756, 907417 &
919029. ANd I gave up on bandaid not long after SP2 came out.

While waiting for hopefully some added suggestions, wher capable, I'm
working things.

 

[uuguru]

Should of mentioned no matter how I configured or setup the audios, the same
thing happens (auto timing, manual timing, re-loading audios, etc.) and as
mentioned, somewhere between 1 to 6 audios fail to play as evidenced by each
time I close and re-open the .pps.

Also, matters not turning off firewall and AV, plus I used my Office CD-ROM
to add a lot of stuff I'd avioded, then even ran a repair.

I about out of ideas.

 

[uuguru]

And while I found an article potentially a fix, I've yet to figure out how to
find the Powerpoint GUID's to do the registry tweak.

Help there appreciated.

Ref. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/938814/en-us?spid=2522&sid=601

 

[Jean-Pierre Forestier [MVP[]

Try "Detect and Repair" in the "?" menu

 

[Echo S]

If you put the presentation and all the audio files in a folder on the C
drive (like, C:\test\ -- do they play then? I'm thinking it might be a
path length issue....)