red lines surrounding mouse cursor arrow, shutdown

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red lines surrounding mouse cursor arrow, shutdown

noticed that four small dotted red lines have appeared around the cursor arrow..lines only follow mouse movement and do not appear anywhere else on the screen...my imac just now froze as i was scanning in a pic. i've done a manual restart and everything looks fine, starts to go through the "your computer did not shut down properly" screen without a hitch and then the dancing red lines appear. mac can make it through this screen but then freezes in main startup. this is the third time ive had to do a hard shut down. ??

has anyone run into the dancing red lines before? any suggestions?

any help is greatly appreciated

(btw: accessing internet from a pc at work)

imac Mac OS 9.2.x

Posted on Dec 16, 2005 2:50 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 17, 2005 8:59 AM in response to monicasatx

I haven't heard of dancing red lines…

What happens if you boot from your latest Mac OS install CD and run the Disk First Aid on that over the hard drive, please?

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Answer 2

Dec 17, 2005 11:51 AM in response to monicasatx

Hi, monica -

Just a thought - do you have the CloseView control panel installed? If so, try turning CloseView off within that control panel, or use the keyboard shortcut to toggle it off, which is Command-Option-K.

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If you can't get the machine booted successfully to get to that control panel, then try booting with Extensions Off - hold down the Shift key from the start of booting until the desktop has fully loaded.

Then drag that control panel out of the Control Panels folder (in System Folder) and restart. I'm not sure if that control panel uses an associated preferences file, but you might look for one (System Folder >> Preferences) - if there, remove it to the desktop also.

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