mouse problems

Maybe I have bigger problems than just the mouse. I just went back to my computer & tried to send an email with the mouse plugged in the USB port. While the mouse seemed to work, no typing appeared in the email. Is this another problem or normal because the mouse is not plugged into the keyboard? Thanks again, Fish

PowerMac G4 733 Mgz Mac OS X (10.3.9) Epson scanner 3170, Epson printer 820, Ext. HD

Thanks for your response. Since my first post, I have tried 2 new mouses(one Apple another non-apple) & neither work. The cursor is frozen so I can't do anything involving cursor movement. I have tried safe boot, resetting PRAM, etc,no luck.

Any suggestions how to get curser to move? Thanks

If I don't get any suggestions, I've concluded I'll have to take the machine into the Apple store.

Today, I turned on computer & for no apparant reason the new Apple mouse worked! (The only thing that occurred since my last post was I unplugged the UPS from the wall because we were going to turn off the power for some electrical installation work.)

With a working mouse, I followed the steps you suggested at Dr. Smokes. I booted from disk & used First Aid to repair volume & permissions.

I tried to use Cocktail to clean cache, but I don't think I did it right, because nothing happened - no messages, nothing.

Now I have the orginal problem I had after power outage. The computer won't shut down - only restarts and my hub & attached peripherials don't work. This problem seemed to be corrected before by resetting nvram inside of Open Firmware. But after a couple of days, the mouse problem developed. Even when the mouse was frozen, the hub worked OK.

So today I reset the nvram inside of Open Firmware again. But no luck this time. Computer continues to restart & hub doesn't work.

Where do I go from here? What can I do to get everything synchornized? If I installed Tiger & printer updates for Tiger, do you think it would resolve my problems or make things worse? Many thanks for your ideas.

PowerMac G4 733 Mgz Mac OS X (10.3.9) Epson scanner 3170, Epson printer 820, Ext. HD

I think this will be my final post on this topic. I hauled the computer tower & periphals including hub into the Genius bar. Everything, absolutley everything, worked fine. We could not reproduce the problems of mouse, hub or retarting when it is supposed to shut down.

Of course, when I brought it home & turned it on, all the problems listed above occurred. Fortunately, the USB ports work individually, so I am able to use computer normally, as long as I don't use the hub.

I did buy a new hub, but have not tried it yet.

Thanks for all your suggestions. Fish

Both hubs have a power adapter, so I assume that means they are "powered". I'm so tired of my husband's & mine computer problems, I have taken a break from trying to fix things. I'll get back to you when I try the new hub. Thanks for your continued interest. Fish

Gary was right! Even though the old hub worked perfectly at Apple Store, it didn't work when I brought it home. The computer worked fine as long as I plugged the periphal directly into the USB port on the computer tower.

I bought a new hub and my system is back to normal at last!

So apparently, my mouse & hub were negatively affected by the power outage. I have now replaced both.

Thanks to all for their suggestions. I would have lost my sanity without your help! Fish



PowerMac G4 733 Mgz Mac OS X (10.3.9) Epson scanner 3170, Epson printer 820, Ext. HD