Powerpoint screen refreshes repeatedly HELP!!!!

[violetbead]

I am using a dell precision M440 with:

2.53ghz processor dual core centrino with 4gb ram 500gb hard drive

NVIDIA Quadro FX 770M video card with the current driver: 191.78

Windows 7 professional

using Office 2003 Professional

I'm having screen refresh problems with Powerpoint 2003 while I'm creating
my documents. I'm a beading instructor and I use power point for all of my
tutorials. I upgraded my computer for several reasons, this being one of them
and I'm having an even worse time with the screen re-loading repeatedly. It's
a known problem according to microsoft but none of the solutions, save
running in SAFE MODE have solved the issue.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907349

In SAFE MODE the graphics look horrible besides, I paid for one of the best
video cards and I still can't get good screen results.

HELP!


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[TAJ Simmons]

Violetbead,

I've seen behaviour were the screen constantly re-draws while in 'edit mode'
(not slideshow)

If it was me I'd try older versions of the nvidia driver.

I'd also try it with "hard acceleration" on/off in powerpoint

cheers
TAJ Simmons
PowerPoint Master

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[Glen Millar]

Hi,

I was just about to say that but TAJ beat me. Anyway, here's the link:

''How to set graphics hardware acceleration back
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00129.htm

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[Glen Millar]

Hi,

By the way- try a single slide with 240 images on it and see how frustrating
this is!!!

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Glen Millar
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[violetbead]

Yes - it's in edit mode not slide show. I create print documents with
Powerpoint. I've tried hardware acceleration on and off. I've changed the
refresh rate and I had the older driver on before I upgraded to the newest
one from Nvidia...

I know 3 other people with the same issue on totally different computers -
one an HP and one an Acer.

ready to try anything else.

Pam


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[violetbead]

PS It won't let me do what was in the link posted.

change ettings in the troubleshoot tab is grayed out.

I'm administrator....

Pamy
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[Glen Millar]

Hi,

Let's try something else-

If you go Start | Run and type in dxdiag.

it will ask if you want to check about digital signing and so on. anyway,
each tab is all about acceleration, sound and so on. As you move across the
tabs, do any problems show up? what is your DirectX version (on the front
tab). it's a long shot..............

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Regards,
Glen Millar
Microsoft PPT MVP

Tutorials and PowerPoint animations at
the original www.pptworkbench.com
glen at pptworkbench dot com

 

[AmyM]

I've encountered this before and I was able to get it to behave by closing
any open windows/apps behind PowerPoint.