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I've got a working mouse again. I was able to run from cd using the c command, and the Live cd loaded up fine, so I think this pretty much solves my problem, though I'm not really sure what happened, lol. I'm installing Ubuntu 6.06 now. Thanks guys for the help, it means a lot. If I have any...

So basically, if reinstalling another OS does not work, I'm screwed? I don't really want to invest more than the $70 I paid for the machine. Maybe growing up on PC's has made me a little biased, but I'm going to be upset if I can't get my Mac to work because of something so relatively...

Is there anyway to get around and at least retrieve my serial numbers for the OS without using a mouse? That way, if I am forced to blow away the system, I can at least give Apple Tech Support a number. In my past experiences, Microsoft will sometimes give out discs for Windows if one can...

I reset the PMU and checked the battery on the motherboard. The battery is alive and well, and the reset did nothing to fix my problem. None of my usb mice worked, and I've tried three different ones each from different manufactures. My keyboard retains the limited functionality it had before...

I have tried to reset the the usb ports as stated in the previous post, but the mouse and keyboard still do not work properly. As stated earlier some functions on the keyboard do work, the arrow keys for example, and the enter key allow me to change the names of desktop icons, and occasionally...

It's not so much that the Mac is a clunker...although as far as I can tell, this one is about six years old. It's a got a 500mhz PowerPC chip and 256 megs of SDRAM. I picked it up from my school's surplus store, where they sell dated equipment. And it worked fine for about a month, and then...

Hello, new Mac user here. I bought a used Mac G4 as a curiosity item a few months ago. Regrettably the CD's did not come with the computer. It worked fine until one day, the mouse and keyboard no longer functioned properly. The mouse no longer works at all, and the keyboard doesn't...