Re: Image flickering in PowerPoint97 and Dell Inspiron 9200 laptop
- From: Dan <Dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2005 06:35:02 -0700
Thks for your response.
It is a brand new Dell Inspiron 9200 laptop running XP Pro w/SP2. All
security updates installed. System RAM is 512MB and video is not shared at
128MB. It is not the file size because even a brand new blank presentation
will do that. Seems like a refresh rate problem because there is a thick
horizontal line that comes vertically down and start all over again from the
top. Using a new user profile does that too. Trying it out with Powerpoint
2003 also does that. Found out too that when Word2002 is used, it will
expand the view to 500% and we can't modify it. All these will go away once
I reboot the system. However, enabling an external device (don't have to
plugin anything physically) using Fn+F8 will bring back the problem.
"Bill Dilworth" wrote:
> Those symptoms generally point to a system resource problem, perhaps with
> the video RAM. (Just a guess, but let's run with it.)
>
> How much regular RAM does the laptop have? Does the laptop's video card
> used shared RAM for either or both video outputs? Does you system recognize
> all the actual RAM that you have installed? How big is the swap file? Does
> the Hard Drive indicator come on a lot of the time?
>
> If 256Meg of RAM is split between Windows, PowerPoint, and 2 video drivers,
> it just ain't nearly enough. Even 512 would be pushing the system pretty
> hard.
>
> As a reference, both the video cards in my main computer have 32 meg of RAM
> just for themselves.
>
>
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> "Dan" <Dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:F76EABBB-1784-453C-99DB-D6480091A82B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hi, I have this maddening issue with our Dell laptop screen flickering in
> > powerpoint ONLY when an external monitor Fn+F8 is triggered. When a slide
> > is
> > played, no problem but only in the main application. Doesn't matter if it
> > is
> > a blank presentation.
> >
> > Can someone help with this as Dell cannot figure it out. Note that the
> > motherboard and video adapter are replaced, and so was the video drv
> > updated.
>
>
>
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