Disapperaing graphics, Word crashes.

[Christo]

I'm using Win XP and Office 2003. The problem is not relating to scrolling,
but perhaps related to tracking, which I am required to have on for work with
this large, graphics-ridden document.

What happens is that a graphic, seemingly chosen by Word at random, will
suddenly stop displaying and be replaced by a box. Not a box with a little
red X, which I'm familiar with, but a rather large white box. No, it doesn't
happen to any one graphic, nor does it seem to prefer large or small graphics.

The only message I've seen is something along the lines of "due to memory
limitations, Word cannot display this image." I'm familiar with memory
problems with word, but the laptop I'm working on has 512MB and deals with
scrolling the document fine (as in, it doesn't freeze in the process of
scrolling).

When I tried to accept all changes to see if tracking is the issue, Word
crashed and continues to crash each time I open this document.

Help!

 

[katin42]

This sounds like a far more complicated problem, in nature. Memory problems
are definately an issue to reconsider, but memory of a different kind.
"Real-mode Memory", the memory used to operate, apply, and process all
programs is different from storage related memory. It sounds like this might
be your problem, which leads to a possible problem, with power management,
throughout your operating system. The graphic display problem is the
symptom, but not the cause of the problem. It's not conclusive, and others
might have a different observation, but it sounds like a power management
problem.