Problem with my apple....

Chillwithcian

The apple i have isin't great in terms of memory. I connected it up to the broadband for the first time yesterday, and downloaded the safari browser. there was another update, but the internet stopped working half way through (oddly enough), and i had to force quit the software update program. the computer was acting a bit sluggish so i decided to reboot it. Now whats really odd.... the computers working fine and so is the keyboard. but the mouse has stopped working, even though there is nothing wrong with it. so i can't use the mouse anytime i turn on my computer. any idea on how to resolve this????:(

Anti

Suggested move to the mac forum ?

K.O.Kiki

Have you tried a different mouse or USB port?
Other than that, your wording is kind of confusing me -- what do you mean "it's not great in terms of memory"?

Can someone move this to Operating Systems->Mac, please?

irlrobins

anti wrote:

Suggested move to the mac forum ?

Well then use the report post button! That's what it's there for! :rolleyes:

K.O.Kiki

Erm... FF2 doesn't display my thread tools anymore...

Chillwithcian

K.O.Kiki wrote:

Have you tried a different mouse or USB port?
Other than that, your wording is kind of confusing me -- what do you mean "it's not great in terms of memory"?

Ive alrady tried every USB port AND the dell computer mouse. I ment the general memory on it isn't the best....

Bunnyhopper

You could try zapping the PRAM.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238

Chillwithcian

Bunnyhopper wrote:

You could try zapping the PRAM.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=2238

Yep, i tried but still no result. This is really odd, can macs get viruse's? I didn't think they could. Is there anyway of resetting the whole apple to the day it was born using the keyboard?

(IE Origional factory settings)

K.O.Kiki

It's not a virus -- we'd have heard all about it by now if there was one out in the wild

There should be stuff about this on the Apple site; I'm sure I saw it in one of my RSS feeds a week or 2 ago... sorry

scrapland

To OP.

At least throw us a bone and tell us what mac you are using

Seriously it will help..

Have you tried repairing permissions, or verifying disk in disk utility ?

Chillwithcian

scrapland wrote:

To OP.

At least throw us a bone and tell us what mac you are using

Seriously it will help..

Have you tried repairing permissions, or verifying disk in disk utility ?

Sorry, i don't know what its model is, but its not old (fairly recent)
I don't know about the other two options. how can i do them if i can't use the mouse?

Urban Weigl

Try booting up from the system DVD that came with it. You can do so by holding down the "C" button on the keyboard while the DVD is in the drive:

1. Put DVD in drive, I assume it's slow loading, it should take it automatically
2. Reboot the computer
3. While rebooting, hold down the "C" key

Does the mouse work now?

Scráib

Is it a laptop or a desktop? Is it white or gray in colour? You can tell us those at least!

Chillwithcian

Scr&#225 wrote: »

Is it a laptop or a desktop? Is it white or gray in colour? You can tell us those at least!

Its a desktop and grey in colour