04-20-2005, 12:03 AM

Hello all,
I've recently came into possesion of an old power mac G4 with the 350Mhz processor. It came with OS X 10.2.5 operation system. Initially the only problem I had with it was that I couldn't access the CD drive of the system. So the other day I hooked it up to the internet to check for driver updates when it told me that there was an update to OS X. So I went ahead and updated it to OS X 10.2.8. Well after the install I went ahead and rebooted the machine and now my mouse and keyboard dosen't function. Both are usb. I've went and brought both a new keyboard and mouse and it still doesn't work. What can I do to get this thing to work again.

Oh yeah before I forget, I got this machine used with none of the software. So a reinstall is out of the question

04-20-2005, 12:40 AM

You could try restarting with the keyboard and mouse detatched. You could also repair permissions... click the hard drive>applications>utilities>disk utility>repair permissions!

04-20-2005, 09:25 AM

Originally Posted by sonofapplepm

You could try restarting with the keyboard and mouse detatched. You could also repair permissions... click the hard drive>applications>utilities>disk utility>repair permissions!

Is there a way I can do this in single user mode? becasue trying to do this from the GUI is next to impossible. Since the keyboard and mouse doesn't work properly.

04-20-2005, 09:30 AM

Originally Posted by sonofapplepm

You could try restarting with the keyboard and mouse detatched. You could also repair permissions... click the hard drive>applications>utilities>disk utility>repair permissions!

Well I try to restart without attaching the keyboard and mouse, and that didn't work out. So when I rebooted again I was able to get to disk utility with the limited functionalty of the keyboard, however I can't get to repair permissions. Man this mac is driving me up a wall. I have to get this thing fixed soon.
I'm sorry if I'm ranting but this is one of the more frustrating computer problems I've ever came across.

04-20-2005, 10:32 AM

Once you are in disk utility you have to be able to select the hard drive. Then it will allow you to use the repair permissions button. That could be kinda hard in your situation. Maybe you could reset the pram? Hold down the apple+opt+p+r keys during startup!

04-20-2005, 10:18 PM

Originally Posted by sonofapplepm

Once you are in disk utility you have to be able to select the hard drive. Then it will allow you to use the repair permissions button. That could be kinda hard in your situation. Maybe you could reset the pram? Hold down the apple+opt+p+r keys during startup!

Tried it to no avail. Man is there a way that I can just undo the OS X update? I mean when I was running 10.2.5 everything worked fine, as soon as I updated to 10.2.8 thats when all **** broke loose.

04-20-2005, 10:29 PM

Originally Posted by pervitizm

Tried it to no avail. Man is there a way that I can just undo the OS X update? I mean when I was running 10.2.5 everything worked fine, as soon as I updated to 10.2.8 thats when all **** broke loose.

If you have the original restore disks that came with the system you can do an 'archive and restore' which saves your personal files but reverts the system files back to 10.2.5

04-21-2005, 12:22 AM

The single user terminal way help this. Restart holding Apple S to get the terminal. In there type /sbin/fsck -fy until the ** Files system changed** Splash stops.