This sounds a bit different from my situation. I wasn't even at my powerbook when it crashed. But it's nice to know these things can fix themselves (?) So far I haven't had a second crash. Jim On 6-Nov-04, at 8:58 PM, Bill Metcalfe wrote: > On my G4 desktop running O X.2, several months ago, I had several > crashes which displayed the same message you have seen. They occurred > when I attempted to awake the computer by brushing my fingers over the > keyboard and striking several keys sequentially, rather than pushing > just one key. The crash was unrepeatable when I deliberately tried to > duplicate it. I don't know if this has any bearing on your crash or > not. The problem, unsolved, seems to have gone away.