>But when it all crashed and I switched to my >granddaughters Imac with its capacity memory and OS 9.0.4, MS Word 98, >Epson C62 and no other peripherals I have been having many freezes and >crashes of Word.
Make sure you have patched Word for OS 9. Microsoft has an update available for download that fixed a number of bugs with MS Office 98 and OS 9.x. >As to my G3, well I think it is caput. The Apple Cert. Tech here cannot >get the HD up in order to transfer all my stuff to a CD and he says he >has tried everything. I noticed it made a bad noise before it crashed >and I took it in. It has been two weeks and he says he has tried Norton, >DiskWarror etc. and even installed a new HD and still cannot get it >working. Now he believes it might be a system board or something like >that (I cannot remember the tech. term). So I don't know what to do and >cannot afford a new computer at this point. What model G3? If you give up on it, and plan to scrap it, I'll be happy to take it off your hands (I can give you shipping costs plus a few bucks for the time/effort to pack it). Also, you might want to take it to another tech and see if they give you the same response. It should be fairly trivial to see if it is the board or not. Put the HDD into another Mac, does it work? If so, it ain't the hard drive. Now swap the cable with a known good, try again. Same with the power cable (and really the entire power supply couldn't hurt to check). Once those 3 things have been isolated as not the problem, that leaves the logic board. Toss in an IDE PCI card and see what happens. That will isolate if it is a controller issue, or elsewhere on the board. He should be able to determine what major component is at fault in under an hour. If he can't, he sucks and you should go elsewhere. A good hardware tech should rarely use the term "it might be". It either is, or it isn't, and they should know how to figure that out. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
