No, I'm running Word 98 on the same system that you apparently have (450 sawtooth/ 128 RAM), and I haven't had any unusual problems with it. I'm running OS 8.6, as it was when it …

actually i'm running os9 with my g4. so that means it has something to do with os9 and word98. i'll try something. thanks.

Have you checked the available patches? Check out the Microsoft "Mactopia" pages, because I *think* that there was a note about Office 98 and OS 9, and there is a patch to fix kno…

thanks i had office98 updated a while ago but i had vir mem on because i couldn't afford any errors like that. but now that i have checked i think the patch really did solve the pr…

Hi, I know this has been covered in the past. My G4 (466 digital audio with 640 MB Ram and two hd) has a constant subtle noise which sounds like the sound an hard drive does when…

Anyone ? Please ... Alessandro

I had a problem where a "buzz" sound would appear at regular intervals; not sure if it's the same thing you're getting. My problem came from the mass of wires coming down verticall…

Yeah, sounds like some sort of vibration whine to me

Quote: Originally posted by strepidus: I had a problem where a "buzz" sound would appear at regular intervals; Yeah, anyone else having a problem with that type of…

Does your graphics card have a fan on it? Mine does and it makes just the sort of cyclical noise that you mention. You can open the machine while it's running and put your finger …

I have an extra 4gig Fujitsu drive that I want to install into my Single processor G4/500. I already have the factory installed Quantum Fireball Plus LM 27gig. According to the o…

The factory ATA drive is on a metal tray the extends up on both sides above the factory drive to accomodate a 2nd drive in the future. The "elusive" key screw is on the front end o…

Go to www.xlr8yourmac.com for details and pictures.......no better place for upgrade info. Happy New Year http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/smile.gif

Apple has some good instructional videos on their Customer Installable Parts (CIP) site. Check it out. There're some videos showing you how to replace your DVD-ROM/RAM drive, insta…

Ok, I found this website: http://www.quantum.com/support/hdd/f...ta_support.htm Which seems to claim that the Fireball's "Single drive" and "Master with slave present" settings a…

Looks like the main drive is set on Master. Try setting the new drive to Master and your Quantum to Slave. Also make sure the ribbon cables & power connectors are fully seated …

I have one of the earlier G4-450's with a SCSI HD and I want to add an ATA HD to accomodate all the digital video editing my son is doing. Is the fact that I'm starting out with a…

An iBook that has been working flawlessly for 11 months, suddenly won't turn on tonight. The power button gets no reaction whatsoever. I assumed the battery must have run down and …

The answer to this problem with the iBook of one of my students was provided by 'ever-ready Bugs'--it was a PowerManager which needed to be reset and exact instructions are given a…

I have heard that the motherboard / ROM of the iBook was designed to support DVD drives, but that Apple left the drive off to further distiguish the iBook from the PowerBook G3. H…

If you do it, let us all know how it works out!

I have a mat****a in mine.... I'm not sure if they are putting different ones in...

I got the DVD software decoder from the iMac DV to run of my iBook and power mac G3 by hacking it a little. DVD works fine on the G3 but I dont have a DVD drive for the iBook. Anyw…

Ok guys I think I got it... checked the specs on the CD-ROM drive that comes with the iBook and its a Mat****a/Pansonic CR-175 drive. Well it looks like they make a DVD drive that …