Hi Tim Have you tried a different keyboard and/or mouse to rule them out as not being faulty? Do you have anything else that is plugged into the MacMini as well? I'd also start trying to look at those things as well, just to rule everything out, before looking at perhaps other hardware issues. Also, can try just a clean install of 10.6 and see how it runs, without the update.
They would be some other things to try. Kind Regards Daniel On 28/9/10 11:09 PM, "Tim Law" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Update: > > No good news. > > I restarted my Mac Mini from a Snow Leopard DVD then erased the Mac Mini hard > disk. > > I installed Snow Leopard and the computer appeared to function normally. I did > not load anything back onto the disk from my Time Machine disk. > > I then installed the latest Combo update that I downloaded yesterday and saved > to an external drive. > > Now after restart from that combo update, I have gone back to my starting > problem I.e. When the computer gets to the user login screen, my keyboard, and > the mouse clicks are unresponsive. I am assuming that if I do a safe boot at > this stage, then it will work properly, but that is not a long term solution, > and I need to go to bed, not spend more time trying to rectify this. > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 28/09/2010, at 9:25 AM, Tim Law <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> Thanks Rob >> >> Bob has responded off list and suggested a reinstall from the latest combo. >> Whilst it didn't resolve the problem it was quite special watching a download >> coming through at 2.5mb per sec on cable :-) >> >> I have also trashed the finder prefs with no result. >> >> The original owner will look for the original disk but thanks for the >> reassurance about the price of snow leopard. If I buy a family pack I can >> upgrade all the computers. >> >> Tim >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On 27/09/2010, at 11:08 PM, Rob Phillips <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Tim, >>> >>> Not sure if anyone else has responded. One solution could be to trash your >>> finder prefs file and then restart or shutdown. >>> >>> Look for ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist where ~ is your user >>> folder. >>> >>> This solved similar symptoms for me. >>> >>> Rob >>> >>> On 27/09/10 3:00 PM, Tim Law wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> As per the Subject, I am having problems with the Finder menu and Dock not >>>> functioning at all when booting in normal mode. >>>> The system works fine in Safe Boot - holding down Shift key on start up. >>>> >>>> I'm running 10.6.4 in a Mac Mini 2.53Ghz with 4Gb of RAM >>>> >>>> The problem is that that keyboard and mouse clicks become unresponsive in >>>> normal boot up mode. They work okay in Safe Boot, which indicates to me >>>> they are working fine hardware wise. >>>> >>>> Problem arose yesterday when machine wouldn't wake from sleep. >>>> >>>> I went through and disabled all the startup items under the user Account, >>>> ran Yasu a system repair utility. >>>> >>>> Taking on board the comments from a few weeks ago in the thread: >>>> >>>>>> Re: Strange Finder and OS behaviour and some resolutions >>>> >>>> I downloaded and ran AppleJack from Single User mode by pressing Command-S >>>> on startup. >>>> >>>> The result is unchanged. >>>> >>>> When I arrive at the login screen to select which user account - my main >>>> one and a Test account, the mouse cursor is visible and moves around, but >>>> the screen is unresponsive. >>>> The same thing happens if I reset the Account Login to automatically log >>>> into my main user account. The system starts up as one would expect, but >>>> the keyboard and mouse clicks are unresponsive - i.e the mouse moves, but >>>> there is no response to clicking. >>>> >>>> A forced shutdown is needed by holding in the Power button. >>>> >>>> In the WAMUG archive >>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg59872.html referring to >>>> "Strange Finder and OS behaviour and some resolutions" the advice from >>>> Ronni was to performa a system reinstallation. >>>> >>>> Problem 2: >>>> The original system disks are still with the original owner of the Mac >>>> Mini. I "might" be able to contact him and find them, but finding him again >>>> is not so easy. The alternative, I am assuming, is to go buy a new OSX 10.6 >>>> disk. >>>> >>>> Any other options welcomed! >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> >>>> Tim >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >>>> Archives -<http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >>>> Guidelines -<http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >>>> Unsubscribe -<mailto:[email protected]> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Associate Professor Rob Phillips >>> Educational Development Unit >>> Room 4.42 Level 4 Library North Wing, Murdoch University >>> [email protected] Phone: +61 8 9360 6054 Mobile: 0416 065 054 >>> Fellow, Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia >>> >> >> >> >> -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- >> Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> >> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> >> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> >> > > > > -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- > Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> > Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> > Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]> > --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: <daniel @ macwizardry . com . au> Web: <http://www.macwizardry.com.au> **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
