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Q: MacPro Early 2008 upgrade to El Captain Keyboard and Mouse not working

Hi,

I've just upgraded my old MacPro Early 2008 to El Captain, via a fresh download from the apps store, and installed onto a clean (just formatted) drive, (machine has been running 10.6.8 on another drive)

Straight from the first boot the mouse (apple wireless mouse) took a while to get recognised, however picked it up and allowed me to complete the installation right up to where migration started where by I select my old drive and copied my user data across, it completed this step and then re-started.  However from this point on I now no longer have a mouse or keyboard.

the Apple Extended (USB) keyboard doesn't show any sign of life (no caps lock, nothing) and the wireless mouse won't connect.  I have tried multiple USB port on the machine, and all the same, I can plug in an old wired apple mouse the the red LED comes on, but no response otherwise.

I can access the machine through VNC, and finish booting, operate through this slave machine fine.

I have tried Recovery boot in 10.11 and no change,

Reboot in on the 10.6 hard drive and all works as normal, so this confirms it's not hardware. Have also done SMC and NVRAM reset, no change.

Along with creating new user, and trying to boot this, also no change.

 

Once booted and VNC'ed in I notice in system profiler that it's not showing a Bluetooth Card, and it is showing it's connected to the right keyboard, and even pick's up that I've got the old apple mouse connected, so it appears the USB is working, just not talking to the system.  But my feeling is this issue is probably with the bluetooth, causing something to hang.

As such I have also gone through and deleted any old Preference files in relation to Bluetooth, but like wise hasn't made any difference.

Any suggestions?

MacPro's, MB Pro, Mini's, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Jun 29, 2016 7:52 AM

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