Re: Quicksilver loses keyboard input

2010-09-28 Thread Ashgrove
On Sep 27, 10:46 pm, "Wallace Adrian D'Alessio" wrote: > Coming in late here but I/O problems always lead me to check hardware > connections first. Dirty connectors are very common. And this is in keeping > with the "kiss" principle. Adrian, That's very sound advice, but (fortunately) that wasn'

Re: Quicksilver loses keyboard input

2010-09-27 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Ashgrove wrote: > Hi Matevž, > > I solved the problem by popping in another HDD with Leopard already > installed. The other drive is already erased, and I got rid of the > incompatible RAM, so I guess I'll never know what happened. Too bad, > because I'm still cur

Re: Quicksilver loses keyboard input

2010-09-27 Thread Bill Connelly
On Sep 27, 2010, at 3:54 PM, Ashgrove wrote: I solved the problem by popping in another HDD with Leopard already installed. The other drive is already erased, and I got rid of the incompatible RAM, so I guess I'll never know what happened. Too bad, because I'm still curious as to what exactly h

Re: Quicksilver loses keyboard input

2010-09-27 Thread Ashgrove
Hi Matevž, I solved the problem by popping in another HDD with Leopard already installed. The other drive is already erased, and I got rid of the incompatible RAM, so I guess I'll never know what happened. Too bad, because I'm still curious as to what exactly happened. It was a first for me. Goog

Re: Quicksilver loses keyboard input

2010-09-27 Thread Matevž Markovič
Hy! Have you since solved your problem with bad extensions? If not, try recreating the mkext, or play with kernel extensions (perhaps they are not even loaded ... ?) "sudo kextload/kextunload" If it would not help, then I would just reinstall the system. Yours, Matevž Markovič -

Re: Quicksilver loses keyboard input

2010-09-25 Thread Ashgrove
On Sep 25, 4:51 pm, Bill Connelly wrote: > I knew you said different hard drive, but didn't that imply a   > different copy of the OS X? i.e., non-perturbed USB extensions and such? Well yeah, a hard drive from a different computer wouldn't have its USB extensions screwed up. Maybe they were work

Re: Quicksilver loses keyboard input

2010-09-25 Thread Bill Connelly
On Sep 24, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Ashgrove wrote: On Sep 24, 2:59 pm, Bill Connelly wrote: Like someone said earlier, sounds like the system USB apps got messed up with the bad RAM. Wonder if a Combo update to the old system would replenish the apps. Don't know here, just guessing ... Not exactl

Re: Quicksilver loses keyboard input

2010-09-25 Thread John Markowitz
On Sep 25, 2010, at 11:47 AM, Ashgrove wrote: > On Sep 25, 12:59 pm, John Markowitz wrote: >> I've had HHD's do strange things. it would be interesting to know if >> DiskWarrior could fix your problem? > > Good that you mention that, John. I tried DiskWarrior, but it didn't > do a thing. I sol

Re: Quicksilver loses keyboard input

2010-09-25 Thread John Markowitz
On Sep 25, 2010, at 11:47 AM, Ashgrove wrote: > On Sep 25, 12:59 pm, John Markowitz wrote: >> I've had HHD's do strange things. it would be interesting to know if >> DiskWarrior could fix your problem? > > Good that you mention that, John. I tried DiskWarrior, but it didn't > do a thing. I sol

Re: Quicksilver loses keyboard input

2010-09-25 Thread Ashgrove
On Sep 25, 12:59 pm, John Markowitz wrote: > I've had HHD's do strange things. it would be interesting to know if > DiskWarrior could fix your problem? Good that you mention that, John. I tried DiskWarrior, but it didn't do a thing. I solved the problem switching to another HDD, but now I wonder

Re: Quicksilver loses keyboard input

2010-09-25 Thread John Markowitz
> > Not exactly, because the mouse worked perfectly in all USB ports, > including the keyboard's.It is back to normal now with a different > hard drive, though. It's just bizarre... I've had HHD's do strange things. it would be interesting to know if DiskWarrior could fix your problem? John

Re: Quicksilver loses keyboard input

2010-09-25 Thread Ashgrove
On Sep 24, 2:59 pm, Bill Connelly wrote: > Like someone said earlier, sounds like the system USB apps got messed   > up with the bad RAM. Wonder if a Combo update to the old system would   > replenish the apps. Don't know here, just guessing ... Not exactly, because the mouse worked perfectly in

Re: Quicksilver loses keyboard input

2010-09-24 Thread Bill Connelly
On Sep 24, 2010, at 2:07 PM, Ashgrove wrote: Tried all of the above. No cigar. Then I switched the HDD for another HDD with Leopard also installed (remnants of a dying MDD that I'm parting out) and everything works as it should. Like someone said earlier, sounds like the system USB apps got

Re: Quicksilver loses keyboard input

2010-09-24 Thread Ashgrove
Hi Matevž, Thanks for the good advice! The keyboard actually worked for all purposes like selecting the startup drive, getting into firmware, booting into safe mode, and so forth. It's when the OS is loaded that I would lose all keyboard input. Tried all of the above. No cigar. Then I switched th

Re: Quicksilver loses keyboard input

2010-09-24 Thread Matevž Markovič
Hello! I would recomend to look at the open-firmware(reset nvram, reset-all). But since you have no option of inputing text into the console (perhaps it would work with a bluetooth keyboard), try resseting the PMU the hard way (via battery on the logic board). The reason why I think that firmware

Quicksilver loses keyboard input

2010-09-23 Thread Ashgrove
Hi all, I have a dual 800Mhz Quicksilver with 640Mb of RAM running Leopard. It was working flawlessly until I tried a stick of RAM that didn't work -- meaning it was ignored by the system. From that point on, I lost all keyboard input. I took the RAM out, but still don't have keyboard input. I tri