Hi Alex, Hopefully when you installed Panther, you performed an ?Install and Archive?. If you installed Panther using the upgrade option, you may want to reinstall Panther.
Also, try your flakey mouse on another Mac to test whether the problem moves with your mouse or not. And also try a different mouse on your Mac. Ward Ward Oldham, MacDude MacTown 1041 Bardstown Road Louisville, KY 40204 502-485-1243 ward at mactown.us http://www.mactown.us > My flat panel iMac's optical mouse pointer is behaving very > erratically. It seems to have a mind of its own and jumps across the > screen at inopportune moments. > > Recent system changes: > -folks at MacTown replaced the logic board (thanks!) > -installed a 512 RAM memory upgrade chip > -installed an AirPort card > -upgraded from 10.2.8 (2nd edition) to Panther > > I seem to recall that the mouse was a little bit flakey before any of > this happened, but it was very rare. Now it is happening often enough > to be frustrating. > > Last night I looked at some Mac discussion forums, where people said > there had been problems with USB devices (like mice) since 10.2.6. > > I have tried 2 different Logitech mice (both work fine on Windows > computers) with no improvement. I also tried plugging the mouse into > the other port on the other side of the keyboard. Plugging the mouse > into a USB port on the back of the computer seemed to help temporarily > but is not a permanent fix (also the cord is short and so are my > arms!). Restarts with and without the mouse help for a short period of > time. > > Any suggestions? Please? > > In search of a better mousetrap, > Alex Whitman > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be November 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20031113/ad2f57cb/attachment.html
