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Article #12448HELP, Jumpy Cursor
From: Chuck Hoffman
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 1990 13:41
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 1990 13:41
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I have a Mac-IIcx with color monitor, 4-meg, 80Mbyte HD. No
accellerator boards or exotic software. Standard Macintosh board for
monitor. Running 6.0.4.
Lately I have started seeing the cursor jump around a bit. A small
move with the mouse sometimes makes random sized moves with the cursor;
large moves (---) mix in with small moves (-), making life difficult when
trying to do fine work on the screen, or even select menu items (last
night I tried for the Get Info menu item, and got Duplicate instead).
IF the system proves to be virus-free (I have a teenager who keeps
bringing "stuff" home from unknown sources) and IF the mouse is okay (I
will try out one I use at work) are there other things I should look for?
I remember seeing titles about jumpy cursors a while back, but did not
read them because I didn't have the problem.
This does not look like an RF magnetic interference problem. Only the
cursor is affected, and only when I move it with the mouse.
Thanks for any help you can give me.
-Chuck
- Chuck Hoffman, GTE Laboratories, Inc.
cah0@bunny.gte.com
Telephone (U.S.A.) 617-466-2131
GTE VoiceNet: 679-2131
GTE Telemail: C.HOFFMAN
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!husc6!bunny!bunny.gte.com!CAH0 From: CAH0@bunny.gte.com (Chuck Hoffman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.mac.programmer,comp.sys.mac.hardware Subject: HELP, Jumpy Cursor Message-ID: <9193@bunny.GTE.COM> Date: 4 Jun 90 13:41:17 GMT Sender: news@GTE.COM Followup-To: comp.sys.mac Distribution: na Organization: GTE Laboratories, Inc. Lines: 25