What could be causing my iMac Intel to reboot when I touch the mouse???

This problem has existed for most of the time we've had our Intel iMac since June 2006 and it's been worse recently. We'll come to the computer which has the screen dimmed and touch the mouse to make the screen wake and it just restarts. It's like the "wake from sleep" and "restart" are somehow wired together. It doesn't happen everytime and I thought it might be from SuperDuper because the iMac is generally connected to a GTech 500GB drive for daily backups. But, after unplugging the drive it's still happening. I'm not sure if there is software that can help me diagnose this problem as I've dealt with it before. I've done all the usuals like repair permissions, repair disk, ensure I have all the latest versions of software, rebuild desktop with Disk Warrior, optimize and repair with TechToolsPro, yadda, yadda, yadda. None of these has made any measurable difference in this randomly annoying problem that is just getting on my nerves enough to post on the discussions
Anyone have any thoughts about how to proceed evaluating this further or could point me to some suggestions on how to fix this? Thanks much!

I thought more about your issue after my last reply and the only other thing that came to mind was the logic board or power supply problem.
Try running the Apple Hardware Test, it may or may not find an intermittent power problem.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1509
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Attila
1. Ops - I DO instantiate it as follows:
[snip]
sw : StopWatch = new;
[snip]
I missed the "= new" in the orig mail message (cut/past from wrong
workspace).
2. LogWriter(deltaT:integer, t1:DateTimeData, t2:DateTimeData)
[snip]
task.part.logmgr.put('| ');
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[snip]
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Regards,
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-----Original Message-----
From: Attila Rácz [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, 7 October 1999 14:35
To: Haben, Dirk
Subject: Re: (forte-users) What could have caused the
StopWatch class to
return a negative v alue?
Hi Dirk,
1. You don't instantiate the StopWatch object!!! So the
attached code have to
throw a NIL exception. On my PC it does:
"Trying to invoke a method on a NIL object (qqos_StopWatch, 1)."
2. Send the whole LogWriter method for analyzing.
Attila
"Haben, Dirk" wrote:
G'day
Suppose the following output is produced:
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NLM Startup is Complete - Partition's Locale is 'c'
Loading partition CollectResponseStatistics_cl0_Client built on 30-Sep-1999
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Attached to manager for node BLAH.
%DiH-I-VERID: CollectResponseStatistics_v371.002
%DiH-I-BGP, BGP Started...
%DiH-I, Repeat Interval (in milliseconds) 300000
%DiH-I, Sample Account Number: 123456
%DiH-I-BGPSTART, BackgroundProcessing started at: 07-Oct-1999 08:54:16
| Total Time | Account Fetch | Account Fetch |
| in milliSeconds | Start Time | Completion Time |
|-----------------|----------------------|----------------------|
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What could cause the stopwatch class to return this negative value? Here is
the code that is run:
sw : StopWatch;
//that line is actual as follows:
sw : StopWatch = new;
//*****[Dirk]
>>
BP_t1 : DateTimeData = new;
BP_t2 : DateTimeData = new;
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Oh, and the logwriter is just a formatted logmgr.put(deltaT) ,
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Any light on this one much appreciated.
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Dirk
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1. Ops - I DO instantiate it as follows:
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[snip]
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[snip]
OK, it's just a quick 'n dirty but it does the job for testing.
Regards,
Dirk
-----Original Message-----
From: Attila Rácz [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, 7 October 1999 14:35
To: Haben, Dirk
Subject: Re: (forte-users) What could have caused the
StopWatch class to
return a negative v alue?
Hi Dirk,
1. You don't instantiate the StopWatch object!!! So the
attached code have to
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2. Send the whole LogWriter method for analyzing.
Attila
"Haben, Dirk" wrote:
G'day
Suppose the following output is produced:
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%DiH-I, Sample Account Number: 123456
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| Total Time | Account Fetch | Account Fetch |
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|-----------------|----------------------|----------------------|
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//*****[Dirk]
>>
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Any light on this one much appreciated.
Thanks,
Dirk
For the archives, go to: http://lists.sageit.com/forte-users and use
the login: forte and the password: archive. To unsubscribe, send in a new
email the word: 'Unsubscribe' to:
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Attila Racz Lufthansa
Systems Hungary
BUD LSYH
E-mail: [email protected] .-``'.
Tel.: (36 1) 431-2910 .` .' Mazsa ter 2-6.
Fax : (36 1) 431-2977 _.-' '._ H-1107
Budapest, Hungary

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