Office 2008 & Video Problem

[Steve]

Yesterday I installed Office 2008 Home & Student Edition on my Mac Mini
which has the 10.4.11 OS. After the installation everything worked fine.
Today I was using Word and after a short time the screen went fuzzy. This is
occuring not only in Word. Could this be a problem with fonts or a video
problem.

Any suggestions on how I might fix this would be appreciated.

Thanks, Steve

 

[John McGhie]

I need a better description before I can even hazard a guess as to what that
is.

It's OK here in OS 10.4.11, so I need to know exactly what you are doing and
what you are seeing...

Cheers

Yesterday I installed Office 2008 Home & Student Edition on my Mac Mini
which has the 10.4.11 OS. After the installation everything worked fine.
Today I was using Word and after a short time the screen went fuzzy. This is
occuring not only in Word. Could this be a problem with fonts or a video
problem.

Any suggestions on how I might fix this would be appreciated.

Thanks, Steve

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Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia

 

[Steve]

This morning when the computer was turned on the boot process was normal.
Five seconds after getting to the desktop the screen turned to snow making
all of the icons and text impossible to see. The monitor is a Cinema 20".

 

[Bob Greenblatt]

This morning when the computer was turned on the boot process was normal.
Five seconds after getting to the desktop the screen turned to snow making
all of the icons and text impossible to see. The monitor is a Cinema 20".

Sure sounds like a hardware problem.

 

[John McGhie]

Five seconds? Hmmm.... That has to be power-supply-related, methinks.

I suspect the Cinema Display needs to go to the Vet.

Cheers

This morning when the computer was turned on the boot process was normal.
Five seconds after getting to the desktop the screen turned to snow making
all of the icons and text impossible to see. The monitor is a Cinema 20".

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John McGhie, Consultant Technical Writer
+61 4 1209 1410, mailto:[email protected]
McGhie Information Engineering Pty Ltd
http://jgmcghie.fastmail.com.au/
Nhulunbuy, Northern Territory, Australia

 

[Steve]

I tried a second monitor and got the same results. I expect that if it's not
related to the installation of Office that it's a video card problem. Guess
I'll have to take it in.