Won't recognize my mouse and keyboard

I added a new cpu switch to the mix and now openwindows won't work because it won't recognize the mouse or keyboard. Has anyone else had problems with these new mouse and keyboard emulating switches?

HCL Problem. check mouse/keyboard manuals or webpages for details.

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i made a windowspartition on a iMac. I installed the windowshelpfiles, but now windows doesn't recognize my mouse and keyboard. Not the usb-mouse and keyboard and neither the wireless apple-keyboard en trackpad. Any suggestions that give me a chance to move on?

In bootcamp on osx we make a usb stick or disc with drivers for the apple hardware for it to work in windows

I have a I Mac 6 years old. We downloaded leopard and now the computer won't recognize the mouse or keyboard. What do we do?

I have a 6 year old I Mac. Last night we tried to download leopard and now it doesn't detect the mouse or keyboard. Then, the whole thing wouldn't reboot! Help!

Download means to install off the internet or a computer server. Leopard 10.5, and Snow Leopard 10.6 are only available on CD. A 6 year old iMac should be able to install 10.5 from CD, if the following requirements are met:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2275
And if these are met, 10.6, Snow Leopard can install on them:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2455
Are you sure you meant download, and you meant Leopard?

Wireless mouse and keyboard won't connect.

I have a windows 7 computer and a wireless keyboard and mouse which connect to one usb receiver.
I was on the computer and suddenly both my mouse and keyboard stopped working.
The mouse lights up a red light but doesn't work. The computer says it can't recognize the receiver.
The usb receiver doesn't have a connect button. Perhaps the button is a sensor type, but it doesn't seem to make a light turn on.
Perhaps it doesn't work because i touched it with my foot. Please help

It would help me greatly if you identified your TouchSmart PC.
How to identify an HP TouchSmart PC.
Had you considered temporarily connecting a USB mouse and keyboard to enable you to install the original drivers from the Recovery Manager?
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Tried to install foo2zjs and now PS/2 mouse and keyboard won't work

I was trying to install the foo2zjs tarball from their website and after doing so, I lost the usage of my PS/2 mouse and keyboard in X.
The keyboard works fine outside of X, but once X starts, it can't see it. Other input devices are working fine, like my USB game controller.
I deleted all the /etc/X11 and /etc/xinited* files and removed xorg xorg-drivers and reinstalled them and no hope.
The keyboard and mouse were being detected automatically, and I never had to edit anything for them to work, so why are they not working now?
I even removed foo2zjs and disabled the CUPS daemon and still no hope.
Any idea how I can debug this any further?
Last edited by amrhassan (2011-04-26 15:42:33)

Turns out it was this problem https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117274, I must've upgraded udev while installing the printer driver.
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Wireless Mouse and Keyboard Install Problem

I am trying to install my wireless keyboard and mouse onto my Mac OS X 10.3.9. My dad had this computer before me and had the mouse and keyboard paired and working. After it was shipped to me, I attempted to pair these again with no luck. THe bluetooth won't recognize either and if i try and run the KeyboardandMouse.pkg as instructed, the icon simply isn't there when I insert the disk. I've attempted to pair using the system preferences, but it cannot locate either the keyboard and mouse. Yes, I do have new batteries installed and the lights do blink when switched on. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Hello again:
Try trashing the BT preference file (com.apple.bluetooth.plist) and restarting.
If that does not work (although it will take you a bit of time), I think I would try an archive and install:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107120
Barry

Wireless mouse and keyboard not recognized

I know that I have had this issue before, but can't remember what the solution is (old age?) My iMac G5 PPC has a wireless mouse and keyboard (the old apple white one). The iMac came with these as an option but WITHOUT the bluetooth card inside. (I still don't know how this works, but it does). Anyway, the mouse and keyboard were not recognized when I tried to get on today. The batteries are good. If I go to system prefs (using an even older wired mouse) there is no bluetooth option (since no card is present). I don't know how to get the computer to try to recognize both. Any help is definitely appreciated.

HI David,
If the iMac didn't come with Bluetooth software/hardware, then are you using a USB Bluetooth dongle?
And open System Profile (Applications/Utilities)
Select Bluetooth on the left under Hardware. You may need to click the gray disclosure triangle so it faces down. What does it say on the right?
If the Bluetooth icon is in your Status Menu Bar (top right in your screen). Click the icon and make sure Bluetooth is turned on. Then click: Open Bluetooth Preferences and try re-pairing the mouse and keyboard.
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Wireless mouse and keyboard Windows 7

I successfully installed Windows 7 (32 bit) on Apple boot camp (3.2) of my iMac 24.
Everything is working perfectly, except my wireless Magic mouse and wireless keyboard.
I found 2 Bluetooth adapters (Generic Bluetooth adapter and Microsoft Bluetooth-enumerator).
The mouse and keyboard are found but won't install!
What am I doing wrong?

Try to use this guide to install your keyboard and mouse (mouse is the same as keyboard)
http://www.tenniswood.co.uk/technology/how-to-pair-an-apple-wireless-keyboard-wi th-windows-7/?utmsource=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utmcampaign=Feed:tenniswood(TenniswoodBlog)&utm_content=GoogleReader

Wireless mouse and Keyboard Issue after closing the lid - external display

Can anyone give any insight. Recent purchase of a new Late 2008 15" MBP. I have connected it to an external 24" Apple monitor on my desk and use a wireless mouse and wireless keyboard on my desk top. I have configured the laptop to wake on bluetooth devices. So here is the problem: The laptop when the lid is up recognizes the bluetooth keyboard and mouse. I close the lid/screen. Laptop powers down... the after several seconds I move the mouse and the laptop comes alive... But after that there are no bluetooth devices attached. When I use the mouse, I get "connection lost" with a white figure of the mighty mouse on the screen. The wireless keyboard is not there and I have to open the lid and manually find the mouse and reconnect. The keyboard seems to work however....
Apple..... any thoughts..... anyone?????

Hi Stentdoc; I'm thinking, 'connection lost ~= sorta low AA batteries in the Mighty Mouse? (I would put in fresh AA batteries in the mouse and keyboard, to eliminate as an issue that the 'connection lost' is due to low batt voltage; that this is causing the failure to wake.) ... then, in System Preferences > Hardware > Energy Saver, settings for Power Adapter > Sleep, set to "never" for "Put the computer to sleep when it is inactive for ..." to eliminate that as a conflict when trying to wake with bluetooth from sleep induced by closing the lid ...
Check your current "Sleep" setup (I left my MBP as "3")
go to Utilities > Terminal
After you launch Terminal, the first step is to determine which sleep mode your Mac is currently using. You can both view and change the sleep mode using the Unix program pmset. To see your current settings, type (or, copy and paste)
pmset -g | grep hibernatemode
press 'enter'
You should see something like this:
$ pmset -g | grep hibernatemode
hibernatemode 3
So your machine is using mode 3 ... thanks to the documentation for the handy Deep Sleep Dashboard widget, which puts your machine immediately into hibernation mode (so you don’t have to yank all the power sources to invoke it):
* 0 - Old style sleep mode, with RAM powered on while sleeping, safe sleep disabled, and super-fast wake.
* 1 - Hibernation mode, with RAM contents written to disk, system totally shut down while “sleeping,” and slower wake up, due to reading the contents of RAM off the hard drive.
* 3 - The default mode on machines introduced since about fall 2005. RAM is powered on while sleeping, but RAM contents are also written to disk before sleeping. In the event of total power loss, the system enters hibernation mode automatically.
also, I enabled this (to change back, input "lidwake 1":
go to Utilities > Terminal
type in sudo pmset lidwake 0 then "enter"
it will ask for your password. type it in, that's it!
Now, when your computer is sleeping with the lid closed, when you open the lid nothing happens until you press any key ... nice: keeps it off when accidentally opened, like in a backpack?
WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss
or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your
typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.
To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.

Mac mini loses mouse and keyboard after sleep.

Hi Everyone:
I recently bought my Mom one of the new Mac mini (I'm a PowerBook user myself), and she's running into some puzzling problems which, while minor, are sufficiently annoying as to confuse poor old Mom.
The system egnrally runs fine after you turn it on, until it goes to sleep. After some undefined period in sleep mode, the Mac mini appears to "lose" the USB keyboard and mouse which is plugged into it. If you press a mouse button or a keyboard key a few minutes within the system going to sleep, the system will wake up and both will work. If you wait a longer period of time (say, 20 minutes or longer, although I haven't sat and timed it at all), pressing any key or mouse button does nothing, and you have to wake it from sleep by using the power button. Once awake, the keyboard and mouse do nothing. The only way to get them back is to unplug both of them (the mouse is chained through the keyboard as the other Mac mini USB slot is used by Mom's UPS), and plug them back in so the Mac mini can re-detect them on the bus, after which everything is happy again until the system has been asleep for too long.
Has anyone experienced this? Both the mouse and keyboard are genuine IBM (as in: made by International Business Machines), although are several years old (I bought them when I worked for IBM, and IIRC they were amongst the first models of USB keyboards and mice that IBM offered, if not the first).
In the interm, I've lent Mom my Apple Bluetooth mouse and keyboard, which has (as you would expect) worked flawlessly. This problem may "solve" itself -- I'm hoping to take Mom out later this week to buy her own Apple Bluetooth mouse and keyboard at the Apple Store.
The other problem, however, isn't as easy (or necessarily as cheap) to fix. Again after the system has been asleep for some time, it often (but not always) changing the resolution of the monitor when it wakes up. I have the mini set to use a reasonable 1024*768, but sometimes when it awakes it will suddenly be set to 800*600 or 832*624. Sure, you can change it back, but that's major surgury for Mom (and I'm moving cross-country next week, and won't be able to just "drop by" to fix system problems). The monitor is an Ambra SVGA model (Ambra was a brand-name of inexpensive PCs that IBM sold some years ago), and never had any such problems on her last (Intel-based) system the mini is replacing.
The whole purpose of the Mac mini is to "bring your own" Keyboard, Mouse, and Monitor -- but in our case the keyboard and mouse don't work at all after sleep, and the monitors resolution gets dynamically changed after sleep. Has anyone else encountered this situations, or any solutions? TIA!
Brad BARCLAY

Hey Jan:
I've seen quite a few posts in this regard with non-Apple mice and keyboard.
Well, the mouse and keyboard are quite old -- it could be that they're having a problem dealing with identifying themselves on the USB bus during sleep, or aren't identifying themselves fast enough at wake time. I'll just have to replace them I guess.
I've never seen a sleep resolution switching problem except on a VGA adapter to DVI connection to an old tube monitor.
Well, this is a pretty vanilla CRT monitor circa about 1999, so yeah -- it could once again be an age issue, and the fact that there is a DVI -> VGA adapter involved in the middle.
For worrying about fixing Mom's Mac, setup her remote VNC software (Apple Remote Desktop Client) and use the free Chicken of the VNC admin program.
I am quite familiar with VNC. As much admin as possible will be done by SSH, but I will have VNC in place before I leave. The big problem is going to be the fact that I'm going to be several timezones (and over 4000 km) away, so I won't necessarily be available at a moments notice to help her with this sort of thing.
The CRT issue we might just have to deal with by having her always run it at 800*600 (I don't think she'd really notice the difference, and as her eyes aren't what they once used to be, the slight size increase may be more confortable for her in the long run) until such time they she can afford to buy a nicer display (I did my duty as a son buying her the Mac mini and an iSight camera -- she has to take care of the rest ).
Yaz.

My Imac just quit the bluetooth for mouse and keyboard. What do I do?

today my I mac doesn 't recognize my blue tooth mouse and keyboard. Fortunately I still had USB units for back up. how do I get Imac to do bluetooth again?

I have the solution!!!!!!!
After months of irritating trying....
I installed usboverdrive
then deinstalled it
from earlier sessions had installed magicprefs --> now I could configure my mouse
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Mighty Mouse and keyboard bluetooth drop

I have spent the past 2 days restarting my computer to get it to recognize bluetooth mighty mouse and keyboard for imac. Now it see's neither, even with brand new batteries in each. Have had to revert to older keyboard and mouse (both bluetooth). Ideas?

Hello:
Reset the SMC and PRAM.
Barry

Airport interfering with mouse and keyboard?

This afternoon I moved our Airport and cable modem from our bedroom into my home office, where it now sits right next to my computer. Ever since I've had nothing but buggy problems with my mouse and keyboard. My mouse is wireless but the keyboard is connected via USB. Sometimes the keyboard won't work at all, sometimes the mouse won't work at all, and sometimes the mouse does funny things. For instance, when I click on an app icon in the dock instead of opening the app it opens a Finder window with the app selected, or it acts as if it's doing an option-click and gives me funny menus. Sometimes it just scrolls funny - once my Safari windows started flickering when I tried to scroll. The weirdest thing is my keyboard, which doesn't work at all 70% of the time. It's just a USB connection, not bluetooth, so I can't figure out why it would suddenly start misbehaving.
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yes, it may be. If you can, try using a wired mouse, and change the channel on your
Airport, and the frequency, maybe check for interference robustness. I have found that BluTooth on the Mac pro is not so good, so I went out and bought a usb plugin for BT, which sits at the front of my tower and helps with that. Also, see if moving your Airport and modem further away helps things. Oh, and try running disk Utilities, repair permissions and check for updates (it's worth a try). If you are using an aluminum keyboard, I think there was an update released just for that alone.....
see also if there is an update for your mouse's software, or what the buttons are set to open by default
hopefully this helps
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P45-C51 mobo. Mouse and Keyboard freezes frequently. Please Help !!!

Hi everyone. I just bought P45-C51 mobo a week ago. It was working fine then since yesterday and then frequently today I'm facing a real problem. I'm using Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit. Whenever I start my computer and it reaches the desktop, after a couple of minutes the mouse and keyboard stops responding but the windows is not hanged as I can simply press the power button and it normally shuts down within 5 to 10 seconds. I checked it both with USB and PS2 version of the keyboard but both seems to freeze. I first thought it was something in windows but i think its something from the bios because when i turned my pc ON and went to the bios then there after 5 minutes the keyboard was frozen but the bios was normal as i could see the seconds change on the system information screen. Can anyone please point me in the right direction what could be the cause of this problem. All the specs are as follows.
Mobo: MSI P45-C51 (MS-7519)
Processor: Core 2 Quad Q8400
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8gb kit 1600Mhz (4x2)
GPU: EVGA GeForce GT 240 DDR3 1GB
PSU: Cooler Master Extreme Power 460 Watt
Casing: Cooler Master Elite 334 Nvidia Edition
HD Primary: WD2500AAKX 250GB
HD Storage: WD10EARS 1TB
Bios Version: 5.7
Cooler: So far none. I'm on air cooling. One CPU fan and two chassis fans.
Temps for CPU are under 40 degrees.
Please help anyone...

Quote from: Bernhard on 21-September-11, 23:46:23
Inspect all your USB ports carefully for any visible damage inside the ports itself. Test if a USB device can be inserted smoothly into each one.
As a last resort, remove the MB and test on a non-conducting surface, and remember an anti static bag is not a non-conducting surface.
Have you started your system in safe mode to test the ports ?
Hi Bernhard, Sorry for the late response. This problem was something related to that board physically as I searched and dig inside the motherboard basics in deep I found out that the ICH10 Usb Host Controller was giving me problems or their might actually be some problem with the South Bridge because thats what controls the low power accessories like usb, IDE sata etc... and thats why the keyboard and mouse was hanging. There were some more issue too with that board like Slow boot and resuming from hibernate took about 3 minutes and when I press the power button for the cold power on it usually power on after 3 seconds and some times it happened if i properly shutdown and then again power on it won't turn on (LEDs and fans start but no power on to the system) So i would have to switch off the power supply, disconnect the power cord and then wait 5 minutes and then reconnect and it turn on then.
What i did was go to the shop from where I bought the mobo and told him all the problems and replaced my board with a new one because it was in warranty and bought only eleven days before.
Thanks alot Bernhard for so much your time you spent on helping me on this issue. The new board seems to work great and I can see very significant different in performance and speed.
Two last queries I have if you can help me out. Can you tell me If i can use Cooler Master Hyper n520 Cooler on this board. I have CM Elite 334 Nvidia Edition Casing. And second thing is that the bios of this board 5.1 and the latest is 5.7. Should I care updating the bios version? If yes then do you suggest any hints on how to do this ?
I really appreciate your help you have done so far.

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