can't find keyboard or mouse

Morning all

Booted up my computer this morning for it to tell me that it can't find my keyboard and my mouse (USB) is not working either. Thankfully my Wacom tablet is working so I could easily click restart. But rebooting didn't change anything either.

I believe it might have happened yesterday too, as I couldn't enter my password at first, but was only for a few seconds.

Anybody got any ideas? I'm stumped as to what to try

What keyboard and mouse are you using? Do either of them need to be charged?

Make sure you have Bluetooth turned on and that the small icon is showing in your top menu. You can click on that small icon and it will show you the status of your keyboard and mouse.

Slydude said:

What keyboard and mouse are you using? Do either of them need to be charged?

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The keyboard is the one that came with the computer. It says it is searching for Cammizen's keyboard?? No, the mouse doesn't need to be charged. The keyboard should be ok too

chscag said:

Make sure you have Bluetooth turned on and that the small icon is showing in your top menu. You can click on that small icon and it will show you the status of your keyboard and mouse.

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Well I haven't changed anything and it was ok yesterday. But I can't log in to my computer as I can't type in password, so can't check. At the moment I'm on hubby's computer.

Do you have a wired keyboard that could be used temporarily? Even a Windows keyboard would work to get you logged in for troubleshooting.

Got them working! Hubby got up and sorted it! He's the hardware and I'm the software LOL! OK, despite keyboard batteries being reasonably new it seems that it was that. He put his keyboard batteries in and it worked (he now can't type on his LOL!) Regarding the mouse, I put it into a different slot in my external USB hub and that's now working. Panic over LOL!

Thanks for all your replies.