USB stopped working in Mac mini

I use a Mac mini as a media center. It is a couple of years old but I never had any issues with it. Recently I came home and heard the fans on the mini blowing as fast as possible. I switched on the tv to find no signal.? I was forced to do a hard shutdown on the device. I booted it back up and found no video, fans were running fine now. I plugged my PS3 into the same HDMI port to test. The hdmi port was dead. I hooked the mini to a monitor and it boots up and I get a picture. All USB ports have quit working as well as Bluetooth and wifi. If I plug in a mouse it lights up but will never work. USB keyboard does not work either. With no keyboard means no pram reset or booting to cd. Is it dead?

Yeah, I'd say it's likely dead. Something happened and the heat buildup in the system got to be too much, and damaged a few things would be my guess.
If it's out of warranty, it won't be worth the cost of fixing it. I was actually just looking up the repair price of Mini logic boards for a couple mid-2007 models I needed to do estimates for. It's about $140 for the logic board alone - later models should be pretty similar - then add on about $100 for labor, and with tax you're pushing $300 which is about the halfway point to a new Mini. So, IMO, it's not worth the cost of repairing if it's anything over about 25% of a new system. But 50% is a definite tipping point for just about anyone I would think. Spend about half of what a new system costs to get the current one fixed, with no real guarantee that something ELSE won't go wrong with it later.
I'd say buy one of the new mini Minis, and this time get the AppleCare plan since you seem to hold onto systems for a couple of years. If this sort of thing happens again, you can get it fixed.

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First of all realize that for the most part no one here is officially "Apple". We are all users just like yourself.
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