Q: Inexistant Bluetooth mouse at startup
I have an IMac that, for some unknown reason, insist on using a bluetooth mouse at startup.
I do not have a bluetooth mouse! The consequence of this is that I cannot login to the machine anymore.
How can I start the machine so that I can correct the problem?
How can I avoid having this problem in the future?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Posted on Dec 3, 2015 9:53 AM
This only happens when the machine has crashed. I then have to turn it off by using the power button. When I turn the machine on again, the bluetooth will be turned on, allthough I never turned it on. At one time (when the machine was new) I had a bluetooth mouse, and the machine will start by looking for this mouse. After some time it will abandon the search and accept the wired mouse.
I have opened the bluetooth panel and deleted the bluetooth mouse, and I turned off th option to open the bluetooth panel at startup. That only made things worse. It took way longer before it would accept the wired mouse.
I have since fetched my bluetooth mouse, in order to start the machine in these cases. But it immediately started looking for a bluetooth keyboard ( yes, I di have one of those too, when the machine was new). It does abondon after some time.
I have reset the PRAM, I have not tried the SMC. I will try, but I doubt it will have any influence.
For my part I do not understand how the bluetooth can turn itself on like that?
Posted on Dec 15, 2015 2:17 PM