BT Mighty Mouse Keyboard/BootCamp XP Problem

I am running Windows XP using BootCamp and I am having quite a bit of difficulty getting the Windows side to recognize my bluetooth moust and keyboard. If the computer won't recognize the mouse and keyboard, it is pretty tough to get anything done. Any suggestions?
Thanks

Your right about that
It has been 2-1/2 hours and still no work done -trying to figure out what the #))(* I need to do to fix issue of boot camp windows environ to work with my MM wireless
the keyboard works like a charm & has since I figured out a work-around - hold the wireless keyboard up to the bluetooth beam ? & turn off and on again wait a minute & then it gets discovered on its own
It is another issue with this MM though

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Mighty mouse in bootcamp not working

Hi Team.
I have just installed Vista Ultimate and the newest drivers for it from apple (the new exe download)
Its all gone well and I am typing to you from the apple wireless keyboard.
However the wireless mighty mouse is not working.
I followed this procedure.
Opened bluetooth in the control panel and added an item. It searched and found the mouse I selected it then told it I did not want to connect with a passkey. Eventually it says connected sucessfully with no pass key. The one of those terribly annoying pop up ballons tells me there is new bluetooth click to use it, I click it and then a new window comes up asking me to enter a pass key?
We can get no further. Basically it says connected but does not work.
Any ideas?

I've got exactly the same problem - iMac with Bootcamp, Vista Ultimate 32-bit, recognises wireless keyboard but keep getting the same pop-up asking for a passkey for my mighty mouse despite asking it to set it up with no passkey.
Went throught the whole Bootcamp/Vista install process fairly seamlessly otherwise.
Anyone got any other ideas?

Mighty Mouse (BlueTooth) Right Click Problem

Many times when I right click on the mouse, nothing happens.
If I move the tab (on back on mouse) covering the blue tooth signal, apple reports mouse not found. The mouse then is found and my right click function works. I did this to reset the mouse to solve the problem but it does not make it a permanent solution.
Do I have a defective mouse or is this a normal behavior with this mouse. I have used other mice before on Windows PC and no other wireless mice exhibits this behavior.

"Laser illumination is considered more superior " ???
Yes, I'm a 20+ year veteren of many Apple mice.
Laser is clearly the superior choice over the optical in the MM.
MM skips with detail moves, this Logitech mouse is precise and smooth.
The Logitech mouse is wireless and has it's own combination charger stand/bluetooth(?) reciever that just plugs into a USB port. No batteries to worry about. Plus it's more egronomic and one can do a right click and a left click at the same time, unlike a MM.
Apple's MM (in both forms) is clearly inferior, I've been through two already since they have been out. Being the Apple loyalist I am, I gave it a second try. But I need to get some work done without having to fight a greasy scroll pea and gunked up rollers with MM.
In this hardware case Apple has been clearly bested, perhaps it was intentional, who knows? Apple's MM just plain under-performs.
I'm almost positive you'll be happy with this Logitech brand/type of mouse.
I'm sure if you shop around you can find it on sale, I did for about $30. A fraction of what a wireless MM would cost you.
(no comp)

Mega Connection Problems with B/T Mighty Mouse :(

My bluetooth mighty mouse is having major problems with connectivity. Some times the thing works flawlessly, but other times (like right now) it won't stay connected for more than 30 seconds...I AM ABOUT TO THROW THIS THING AGAINST THE WALL!!
HELP!!

I also had the same problem but it apparently stopped after I updated to OS X 10.4.10 and updated AirPort Extreme.
The only thing is that my connection to the internet via AirPort keeps failing while using the mouse.

Odd Wireless Mighty Mouse behavior with new Mac Pro?

Hi,
I have a brand new Mac pro and Wireless Apple Mighty Mouse & Keyboard.
The mouse however is not operating properly, it is jerky and slow to respond on a intermittent regular basis. I can move the cursor around the screen but it will stutter and jerk slowly then pick up ok?
I had the mouse and keyboard with my iMac and it worked fine. I have run all updates and re-installed but to no avail. The keyboard is fine.
I suspect it's a hardware issue with my new mac Pro but i'd love it if someone has any other possible causes.
Thanks.

Hi, there's a quite a few people with similar problems, including myself.
My keyboard likes to drop it's connection for no apparent reason, which in turn likes to mess up my mouse and cause it to stutter for a while. Pairing up new devices can do this too, I've found.
It's been thought that some Mac Pro's came with their WiFi and BT wires incorrectly fitted, if you have a search you should find a link to the tutorial if you want to try switching them around.
That said, it didn't make any difference to my BT keyboard and wireless Mighty Mouse, so I switched them back.
I've been hoping for a software fix, but no joy so far, glad I got a three year warranty as standard.

Mighty Mouse lost it's mind

Like I have done several times in the past, I cleaned the scroll ball of my mighty mouse after experiencing the problem of being unable to scroll up. After unplugging it I simply turned it over and rolled the ball on a clean sheet of paper to get rid of any built up dirt. Quite a bit of dirt came out and when I plugged the mouse back in the scroll ball worked as good as new. Except now I had a new problem. I was unable to left or right click, just the third click worked; ie: using the scroll ball click. Since I had the third click set to open the Dashboard, that's all I could do when I tried to click anything with the mouse. Luckily I have another mouse that I was able to use to go into System Preferences and shut off the third click for the mighty mouse. I then changed the settings for the left & right click and then put them back to original to see if it would help, but it didn't.
Now the bizarre part. After playing around with it a little more I noticed the following behaviors. The left click works only on certain objects. For example, I am able to click on almost anything in the Finder; into a window, on a folder or file, on the dock to open an app, the desktop to un-select a previously selected item. I am able to click on the resize control and resize a window, but I can't click on the title bar of a window to move it. I can select things from the left side of the menu bar, like "File" or "Edit", but not from the right side, like spotlight or the volume control. In Safari I can click on links to open up in a new tab but I can't click on the tab to see the page. Also in Safari, or any other application, I can't click on any of the menus. If I am in another application like Safari or TextEdit I can click on a Finder window to make it active but can't click back to the Safari or TextEdit window I just left to make it active again. As for the right click the only thing that seems to work, and only in the Finder, is if I select a file or folder and then right click on it I can edit it's name. I can't get the contextual menus to work even if I use the control key on the keyboard and use a left click. I can't click on buttons in dialog boxes.
I have never seen anything like this before. I would expect it to stop working but not to work on some things and not on others. This thing was working fine just before I cleaned it. It is just baffling and hope that someone can help me out. The one thing I did try was to zap the PRAM, but it did not work.

Since my mouse is out of warranty I decided to open it up and try and figure out the problem. As it turns out my original attempt to clean the mouse basically ruined it. When I rolled the scroll ball over a piece of paper I did it too vigorously. When I opened the mouse and disassembled the scroll ball I found that there was a small gasket under the ball which had a hole in it. Directly under the ball is a small metal tab which I believe is the switch for the scroll ball button. My cleaning attempt pushed the metal tab through the gasket and shorted out the switch, which led to the strange behavior I mentioned in my first post.
Here are some pictures of the damage.
I tried to repair the gasket with some silicone caulk, but even after drying for a couple of days the silicone was too gummy to work well. It made the scroll ball almost impossible to move. The scroll ball button would not work either. At least the left and right click started working again.
I do really miss the scroll ball functionality. It is amazing how used to something you get. I know many people had a lot of complaints with the mighty mouse, but I am not one of them considering that the mouse was original with my almost four year old computer I can't complain too much. It worked well for all that time. I am now wondering whether to buy a new mighty mouse or go for the magic mouse, or maybe even something else if anyone has any suggestions.
So the lesson learned here is, not to be too aggressive with cleaning this mouse. Hopefully this will save someone else the same trouble.
Again, thanks for all the help!!

Mighty Mouse causes electrical noise on headphone socket of Intel iMac!

Sorry for posting this again (it was originally a reply to another thread). I just felt it warranted some attention.
Mighty Mouse (and other USB optical mice) cause noise and interference on the headphone port in an Intel Mac!!!
In the other post it was reported that there was discernible electrical noise and interference when using the headphone port, with echoes, pops and a constant buzz and whine. I really noticed this as well, especially after the impressive noise-free headphone output of the Mac mini I had for 10 days before upgrading to an iMac.
I noticed that the noise changed from a buzz to whine when I moved and picked up the mouse. I've got my Mighty Mouse plugged into my keyboard. At first I tried unplugging the keyboard from the iMacs USB port and the noise stopped. Then I plugged it back in, and then removed the mouse from the keyboard. The interference stopped. I then tried plugging the mouse directly into the iMac. Again, that horrid buzzing whining noise and echoes. So it is definitely the mouse!
The noise changes when the mouse's scanning red light switches on and off and during movement.
I've then tried a second Mighty Mouse, the one I bought for my Mac mini. Same thing. And just now I tried another optical mouse, a mini-notebook one. The noise is even worse! It's quite bizarre as well, the noise changes in pitch the further I move it from the desk surface - its like tuning a radio!
Am I going to be reduced to plugging in a clunky old USB ball mouse to avoid noise through the headphone port of my 1 day old iMac? Can you actually still buy such a device?
Actually, can anybody report on whether the Apple wireless Bluetooth mouse causes electrical noise on the headphone port? And is the noise just on the headphone port or on the inbuilt speakers too? And on the headphone port's dual function as optical audio output?
This is not good. And I'm quite surprised it is something that has been missed by Apple's engineers. Or has it? Is this a known problem? Somebody should have words.
Can anybody from Apple comment? Do they frequent this place? I hope so.
20" iMac (Intel) Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Hello, I bought an iMac 20" today and ran into the same problem...and found this conversation (and the original thread) with a search for "iMac headphone jack noisy".
The problem is painfully audible on a pair of Etymotic Research headphones that I have on loan from a friend. These are designed to fit into your ears with earplugs that seal off the rest of outside sound, so it's practically like having an oscilloscope plugged into your head. Though the Mighty Mouse certainly aggravates the problem with the varying pitches of whine, I have to say it's just a noisy jack when compared with other devices I've plugged the headphones into.
For instance, my Powerbook G4 has some noise on the headphone jack but it's a soft hiss. There is no variation introduced by plugging in the mighty mouse.
However, on both the iMac and PowerBook G4 it appears that the electrical gain on the noise in the headphone circuit is completely independent of the volume level. This is not true of the iPod, where if you turn the volume all the way down while no song is playing the jack goes dead quiet. If I'm right that the volume is being done entirely with software on the computers, then I have become curious as to whether there is any way to control the electrical gain of the headphone jack.
Without such a hardware-level gain control in the iMac or G4, then if your headphones don't take much power to drive...the relative volume of the noise will be greater. So you can make this less noticeable with bigger headphones. I can't hear any of this noise when I'm listening on a pair of bulky AKG studio monitors (which are not particularly shabby in terms of frequency response or audio quality, though the maximum listening volume isn't very good without a headphone amplifier).
More expense, and hassle, just to work around a
problem that should have been noticed and rectified
before Apple released these computers to their eager
public.
In Fight Club, the main character faces the grim truth about how his automobile company handles recalls. The financial formula wasn't to recall a car just because they knew it had a fatal flaw, they recalled when the cost of dealing with lawsuits would exceed the cost of performing a recall. A lot of people in business think that way, and it's sad to suspect Apple is in that camp.
Still, engineering decisions are made within certain specifications and tolerances, and influenced by issues like price. So I accept that Apple cannot anticipate every audiophile application, and that there's a limit to the quality level the consumer interface can ship with. If someone wants better, they can buy a firewire or USB audio interface with higher-quality design.
The frustrating bit is that the only guideline we are given from Apple to expect on quality is "excellent", "engineered", and "pinnacle of design". Speaker manufacturers publish graphs showing the response of their system, which you can then test your unit against. Where is the noise limit specification for the headphone jack? Are we all stuck making individual appeals?
Since this problem depends on the headphones, you've got to prove that the headphones you're using are reasonable. Perhaps see if iPod headphones have the problem?
(Sadly I no longer have iPod headphones with which to test...)
Vainly crossing fingers for a fix.
At least at this point, it can pay off to speak up. My PowerBook mentioned above just had its logic board replaced in order to address a terrible whine that happened when the CPU was drawing a middle range of power. I couldn't really reproduce the horrible cases very easily until I finally found others who managed to figure out that the defect was so bad that some systems could play a nearly full volume musical scale on the analog circuitry of the power supply:
http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits.ars/2006/3/4/3059
Once I could demonstrate it, they fixed it. But the problem had been there since I bought the machine, and made it nearly unusable at times.
iMac 20" Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.6) 2.0 GHz, 512MB RAM

This is way beyond annoying now!! Mouse & Keyboard phase in & out..

Both my wireless Mighty Mouse & Keyboard upon wake phase in & out for the first 5 minutes. They sync up fine at first but as soon as I touch the mouse or try to click something I lose connection. Like I said this happens for about the first 5 minutes then all of a sudden it sticks for the rest of the day. It never did this before the last mac update.
Now just today I noticed when the screen saver comes on the mouse can't wake the computer back up?? What are all these gremlins? I've read several posts with very minimal response or help from mac pro's! Does anyone have a plausible explanation or better yet a solution to the problem?

I didn't yet find a topic that exactly addresses my problem with Leopard and bluetooth but yours seems to be very close to it. Today I connected a bluetooth headset that worked very fine with Tiger on my 17" MBP, i.e. there is the same machine and the same bluetooth device as before.
Now various network applications (Mail, Safari, even Finder!) and the whole system freeze or even crash from time to time. It seems to happen when the headset is on and connected. When I click with the mouse on the bluetooth symbol in the system menu, it takes about five seconds for the menu to appear. When I open System Preferences, I see the busy cursor for about halve a minute before I can click on any icons in it.
I removed bluethooth from the list of network interfaces in network preferences but it didn't help.
I also have a bluetooth mighty mouse that I am not using at the moment but I will connect it tomorrow to test. For now, it looks to me that something is wrong with whole bluetooth functionality in Leopard.

Mighty mouse compatibility with Beige G3

Hello,
I have an interesting problem with trying to connect a mighty mouse to my beige G3. When I depress the mighty mouse button, the computer thinks it is a control-click rather than just a normal click. This seems to happen about 80% of the time if I can recall correctly. (a control-click brings up a submenu of other choices rather than the regular single click.)
I am suspecting the problem is because I am running OS 10.1.5. The mighty mouse is suppose to only be compatible with OS 10.2 and later. But generally, it seems to work fine on my OS 10.1.5 system - except for this control-click problem.
Would anyone know of any solutions to such a problem?
Should I try "USB overdrive" perhaps?
http://www.usboverdrive.com/USBOverdrive/News.html
My other solution is to just use another USB mouse. My other USB mouse (from my blue and white G3) works fine on the beige G3. The problem is only with the mighty mouse.
Thank you for any suggestions,

The final problem has now been solved. I am a little embarrassed about this because I now realize I had no clue how to operate the mighty mouse. All the problems listed above I have now discovered were due to my own operator error. Oops. I did not know the mighty mouse had a left and a right button! Its so elegant that you cannot see this. I thought that when you click down on a mighty mouse, it was always a regular click. What I discovered today was that the mighty mouse can sense if you click on its right side or its left side. What a smart mouse! It can distinguish between pressure on its left versus its right. If you click on the right side of a mighty mouse, that signals a right click. I wasn't aware the mighty mouse was so sophisticated. No wonder the submenus (that traditionally pop up when you control-click) kept appearing so often when I clicked the mouse - I must have been right clicking without being aware of it.
Problem solved. I suppose I should have read the instructions before I plugged in the mighty mouse.
PS
I tried the free 30 day trial of USB overdrive [1]. Nice program. It wasn't necessary to operate the mighty mouse on my beige G3 but it sure is useful - especially for customizing the mouse buttons. Great program.
There is a beta version of USB overdrive that works for OS 10.1.5. Works very well.
[1] http://www.usboverdrive.com

Wired Mighty Mouse and right click on my intel imac

Hi,
This is a stumper!
1) Wired mighty mouse stated to lose right click functions. Control click
works fine but right click with menus is gone.
2) Tried steer mouse. No change
3) Deleted hidmouse user prefs. No change.
4) System Archive and install. no change
5) Clean install and Account reinstall (by hand). no change
6) Nuke and Pave. no change
7.) Pram reset. no change
8) Mouse works on other Macbook- not a mouse problem.
9) Second Mighty mouse exhibits the same problem.
10) logging into second account. no change
11) Other 2 button mice work!
12) I like my mighty mouse, but I need right click!!
13) Tried Apple Dev hid driver debug . no change
14) Tried a bunch of other things but this has me stumped....
(and I'm Apple Certified) any other suggeestions or software
I can try? Context plugins are ok...but I'm not sure if there are other prefes to deleted? Also, a totally fresh install should have fixed this...what's going on here? I need to know.

What is strange about my mighty mouse which also experiences similar issues is that you have to be careful where you are pushing it. My right tbutton is set as a control click but if I don't push it in the very upper right hand of the mighty mouse it behaves as a single click. The left hand button, as such, does not seem to be as sensitive to placement as the right hand one. For a long while I could not get it to work at all, until I figured out where I actually had to strike it.
I had never used a mighty mouse until I purchased a new iMac a couple of weeks ago and just figured it was "operator difficulty" as I am far more used to a trackball than a mouse. I may still go back to one if I can't get used to this mouse. I think you really have to put your whole hand over the mouse to make it function properly and I tend not to do that.
Does this help you with your issue? I am not sure, maybe there is some sort of difference in the way the mighty mouse works with new hardware?
Good Luck! Wish I had more to offer other than trying carefully to position your handin difernt places and see if that helps.
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Mac Mini and Bluetooth Recent Problems (Mighty Mouse, Wireless Keyboard)

Hello there,
I have an issue with my Mac Mini.
We had a storm here recently, so I switched my Mac off. After that, I turned it on, but to my surprise my Wireless Mighty Mouse and Wireless Keybord do not function any more. The green dot under the mouse nad keyboard flashes for a few seconds and turns off. I tried to plug my regular mouse and keyboard but it seems the do not work too. Any solutions?

i dont know if you have another mac around but have you tried repairing the disk by putting it into Target disk mode and hooking up another mac to it? if nothing else, try putting the install CD/DVD and boot from there by holding down "c" as it boots. if that works then it may just be a bad BT card. if it doesnt work then you may have bad usb ports. i hope you have applecare!
a tip for bluetooth HIDs, spread them apart. you will experience problems on occasion where their signals get crossed and they fail to sync right.
by the way, if you went the extra mile to turn off your mac because you were concerned about it, then why didnt you just unplug it from the outlet?

Keyboard & Mighty Mouse problems

Hi all,
I am using the new style keyboard with my MBP and for some reason I keep losing the bluetooth connection & the message " keyboard connection lost " the keyboard is next to my MBP so I cannot understand why I am getting this message ? Also when I receive this message my Mighty Mouse seems to move across the screen very slow ?
If anyone has a clue why this is happening and could give me some help in solving this problem I would be very great full.
Thanks Clinton

Edit: You may want to ignore the below. I just realized it was pertaining to the Mac Pro, and not the MBP...
Try reading through this thread and see if it helps:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=633522&tstart=0
In a nutshell, it could be a Bluetooth-related wiring problem. Some people have gone and fixed the problem by opening up their machines and following the instructions here:
http://www.thelocale.org/files/howtos/mac-pro-bluetooth-howto.pdf
Since tampering with the innards of your computer will probably void your warranty, I would suggest that you NOT do this yourself unless you have to. If you're still under warranty, perhaps you could go to an Apple Store to get it looked at, showing them the above to sort of nudge them in the right direction...
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Bootcamp, Mighty Mouse and Keyboard not working

Hi All,
I just install yesterday Windows 7 (Ultimate 64bits) by Bootcamp in my iMac 21" (bought in 2013).
During the installation, the Mighty Mouse and the keyboard were not working (except the first W7 screens, selecting partition and language), and now, installation finished, i got to use an external keyboard to select username and password, because Mighty Mouse and Wireless Keyboard are not working with Windows.
I restart the computer using OSX and both are working fine.
Could you please help me?
Best
Jorge

upgrading to vista sorted things out!

Mighty mouse and keyboard problems

seems like my mighty mouse scroll ball stopped working. it can only go up and not down or side to side. checked all the settings in mouse prefs look normal. any suggestions? also my keyboard f keys arent working.f10-f11 specifically? is my keyboard and mouse dead?

hi maclover
the reason i am contacting you is because i believe you are one of the best in solving mac problems. i have one problem, and i think it would be a challenge for you.
here it is: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=979279&tstart=0
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Windows 7 and Wireless Mighty Mouse, Wireless Keyboard and sound problem

Hi,
I just installed Windows 7 x64 Ultimate on my iMac 24" white ( OS X Leopard 10.5 ). Surprisingly, it installed without any problems. The only problems I have now are the Wireless Mighty Mouse and the Wireless Keyboard ( alu ).
After I installed Windows I inserted the Leopard Instal DVD and installed Boot Camp. I got a message right away saying that: "This program has known compatibility issues...". I clicked Run program and continued. Soon I got the same warning, but this time not for Boot Camp, but Intel Chipset Device Software. I clicked Run program yet again and it continued installing. Then I got a different warning: "Service KeyAgent' failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services." I clicked Ignore and installation continued. I got another "Service Mac HAL' failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services." warning, clicked Ignore again and after that it finished soon and I restarted the computer.
When I came back into Windows there was no Apple folder anywhere or any sign that I have just installed Boot Camp ( should there be? )
I installed Boot Camp Update 2.1 for Windows XP ( because Vista x64 version wouldn't start ) and basically I got the same warnings I did when I installed Boot Camp from the Leopard DVD ( described above ). I also tried to instal Boot Camp Update 2.2 for Windows, but it didn't start. I also downloaded Bluetooth Update 1.0, but all I got was a message saying: "This update is not intended for this computer and will not be installed.".
There is also no sound.
This is basically it, I really hope some of you who run Windows 7 with wireless keyboards and mice can help me, because I desperately need this to work ( I use a Windows only program for school ).
PS. I have a 2007 iMac 24" white and while it is not on the we're-not-supporting-that list for the infamous Windows 7 Boot Camp update, all other iMacs from its generation are. Any ideas?

Found a solution for the "Boot Camp x64 is unsupported on this computer model" message. Here is the link: http://www.techulous.com/hardware/how-to-apple-boot-camp-64-bit-for-windows-7-on -unsupported-macs.html
Everything works ( for ) now. Yay!

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