briang@bari.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Gordon) (06/06/91)
A real challenge for the collective diagnostic power of the net ... When I got home last night, my Mac's cursor was surrounded by a large rectangle that tracked with it. The (normal arrow) cursor behaves fine, but drags with it a black frame made with a 1/4 inch wide line, about 2 1/4 bu 1 3/4 inches in size! The system is a Mac II, 8MB, monochrome, all Apple parts except for an external 100MB disk, running O.S. 6.0.5. Going to last weekend's backup, I replaced System and Finder to no avail. Booting from a floppy brings up a normal cursor, as does shutting down the external disk and booting so that it comes up from the internal 40MB disk. That seems to prove no "hardware damage" of any kind. I also replaced every "System File" (like Scrapbook, etc.) from that same backup with no change. Rebuilding the desktop (using Minor-Repair) doesn't change it. According to the kids who were home when the chance took place, someone tried to bring up "The PrintShop" and the system froze. Using the reset button got it restarted normally, but with the cursor problem. I did manage to bring up PrintShop from a floppy version, but nothing significant changed during or after it. Suggestions? -- :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: | Brian G. Gordon briang@Sun.COM | | briang@netcom.COM | :-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:
dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil) (06/07/91)
In comp.sys.mac.misc you write: >When I got home last night, my Mac's cursor was surrounded by a large rectangle >that tracked with it. >Suggestions? Have you talked with the guy who found the "little bucket"? -- Dana E. Keil Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics dana@are.berkeley.EDU University of California, Berkeley