[HELP] Help with my new Mac Mini

[jharrelson140]

Hi, I bought a mac mini and it just arrived today.
It was a used one.
I just hooked everything up and it works but the mouse and keyboard wont connect. It loads the desktop and I cant do anything.

Please help. This is my first Mac. Thanks.

 

[azdunerat]

are you trying to mount a bluetooth keyboard and mouse? Is it possible that the BT is turned off and in that case you want to hook up a hardwired version of both and go into your system preferences and make sure everything is on the up and up. Just a thought

 

[jharrelson140]

No I'm connecting both of them through USB

 

[yoyo5280]

Plug in an external hardrive or pen drive that YOU KNOW WORKS!

If the computer recognizes it let us know, if not your USB ports are dead for some reason.

 

[jharrelson140]

Ok, I tried that and it recognized it. It asked me if I wanted to use it to back up with Time Capsule. And unfortunatly I can't click anything.

And I know the mouse and keyboard work because I've tried them with my PC.

 

[cleric]

I had an issue like this on my 09 mini after coming back from bootcamp. I had to remove my mouse from my keyboard and plug them in indivdually and move around ports and it started working again, then I was able to go back to the old setup mouse plugged in to keyboard.

 

[jharrelson140]

Thanks
But I tried a different wireless mouse and keyboard and they work fine.
Thanks again for trying to help. Appreciate it.