PPT gets stuck with projector

[Guest]

I recently experienced this problem:
I attached my laptop to a projector, opened a powerpoint presentation, and
continued to presentation mode. The presentation would not continue after
slide 1: pressing the spacebar or arrow button resulted in shortly displaying
the second slide, with immediately flipping back to the first slide. Closing
the presentation mode shows the general ppt-window, but with my presentation
in about 600%, which continues flickering on the screen.

This problem does not occur for all projectors, until now, I had this
problem with 2 projectors, but there was no problem with another one.
Furthermore, the first slide is displayed correctly (both on the projection
screen as well as on my laptop).

Any idea what the problem can be?

 

[Michael Koerner]

Probably the projector

 

[Guest]

OK, but if it is the projector, what should I do about it?
(as until now 2/3 of the projectors I used had this problem, whereas others
with the same laptop type as mine didn't have this problem)

 

[Austin Myers]

First step, update your video drivers.



Austin Myers
MS PowerPoint MVP Team

Provider of PFCMedia http://www.pfcmedia.com

 

[Michael Koerner]

I would go with Austin's suggestion first, then look at the setup
requirements for each projector.

 

[Jon Burt]

Mariska,

We have the same problem and after much experimentation it seems to be down
to the particular model of laptop, a Dell Latitude D510. (We have Dell D505
laptops which don't have this problem.)

The D510s didn't used to have the problem and then suddenly did after a
Windows update. Therefore we suspected the video drivers (the D510 has an
embedded Intel - 915GM? - graphics chipset) and so rebuilt the PC with a)
very old drivers b) drivers from a while back and c) new drivers. Oddly none
worked so we had to redeploy that particular model away from data projection
duties. Not satisfactory but we couldn't find a solution. Maybe using the
standard (i.e. non chipset-specific) Windows XP video driver would have
worked, but we didn't really want to degrade the video performance in that
way for the rest of the time.

What is your laptop?