The key combination cmd-ctrl-opt-8 causes the screen to inverse. Mike On Fri, 21 Nov 2003, Mark Taintor wrote: > I have a friend who's not on this list who's come down > with a strange > problem with his G3 iMac. Here's what he told me: > > > <SMALLER><X-FONTSIZE><PARAM>10</PARAM>I brushed the > keyboard nervously > while speaking to my wife. I was waiting for a web page > to appear on > AOL. All my colors reversed. I am typing white letters on > a black > background right now! I went into screen effects, desk > top, colors, > calibrate, millions of colors, etc. Nothing worked. I > reset about ten > times. The colors are correct for two seconds, then > change to this > kind of "negative" looking theme. > > I formed another user, and the colors were fine, but all > my files are > on MY identity. Very odd problem. > > I have an Imac G3 with 305megs of Ram and 10 Gigs of HD. > OSX right of > the box, first addition. No updates. > > > </X-FONTSIZE></SMALLER>Any ideas about what's wrong with > his machine? > He can access his files now from a new user that he's > created, but > we're wondering if it's a symptom of something more > serious. --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- The Think Different Store http://www.thinkdifferentstore.com/ For All Your Mac Gear --------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------