[SEkker]

I have an Apple revA PB17 1 GB RAM which I regularly connect to an Apple 20" LCD display.

When I run this in dual monitor mode (external display as main monitor) and Mac word for os X with a document open on the PB display, I regularly see horrible display artifacts. It's so bad it essentially precludes me from using a dual monitor setup for word docs. I've tried lowering color depth, and it's present even at the lowest settings.

I used to think this was a word for os x problem except that I've occasionally seen this problem recently without connected to a dual display. I believe I've even experienced it in Safari.

I plan to install office 2004, but I am a little concerned this might reflect something hardware related with my machine. Anyone else have this problem?

[bighead]

It's likely that something in the graphics system is pooched. Hope you have AppleCare for it, because that's probably a new logic board for you.

[SEkker]

Have another 18 months of AppleCare. They've only seen this machine for 3 other problems, why not the motherboard, too?

Just upgraded to 10.3.5, will see if it fixes the problem.

[RayX]

What kind of artifacts?

Have you installed the latest Office X update? If not, try that.

Also confirm whether or not it only happens with Word X.

If you're moving to Office 2004 then hopefully it is fixed if there is indeed a problem.

Keep us updated.

[SEkker]

Here's an update:

1) I applied the latest (fourth) word for os x update, which corrected the major scrolling problems in dual display mode. Thanks for the tip (I had to reinstall office OSX earlier, I had only applied 3 patches).

2) There are still some video artifacts that are application independent. I think the problem with word made me more likely to notice them. Not sure if they are OS-dependent or not.