Possible Keyboard Fix

Hey all,
As with most of you, I'm experiencing the same issues with both my mouse and keyboard not pairing after changing batteries. I spoke with my tech guy at work and he knows of the problem and told me how to fix it - which I tried but couldn't do it. So I brought them into work and gave then to my tech guy just to see if they would pair with another Mac G5. He was having the same problem but was able to get them to pair. This is what he did -
1. Ran the BT set up.
2. When he made it to the enter passkey and typed in the PK but it didn't work, he would hit the continue button, turn the keyboard off/on super fast and retype in the PK.
After a few times, it worked. He also suggested pulling the batteries out and placing them back in in the middle of the process. He doesn't know why this works other then saying "it's finicky".
Just one other note. He got my mouse to connect with no problem. I couldn't at home. I'm writing this at work and will try this solution tonight and let everyone know if it works for me.
Hope this helps

Well, I went home and paired my mouse and keyboard with no problem at all. I didn’t have to do the on/off trick or anything special, they just paired. I did the mouse first. The only thing that I can think of why I didn’t have any issues pairing are:
1. The batteries were taken out and put back in when both the mouse and keyboard were paired earlier today at work.
2. Somehow both devices were affected by being paired with a different machine.
3. I don't think this has any effect but I’ll mentioned it anyways. I have an airport express and sometimes it doesn’t show up on my computer and I have to pull/reattach the plug for it to show up. Well the AE wasn’t showing up when I went to do the BT assistant.
Hope others can resolve their BT issues.

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