This is driving me crazy and seriously affecting my productivity, so I hope someone here can help...
A few weeks ago, I moved my 2011 27" iMac from one room to another. Once I got it all set up, I discovered that several of my usb peripherals weren't working. A few flash drives, a wired keyboard, a wired keypad, a wired mouse. They would light up, but they wouldn't actually work. They also wouldn't be recognized in the USB device tree under system info.
My printers and hard drives, however, usb devices with independent power supplies, worked fine.
I called Apple Care, they were very nice and sent out a technician to replace my logic board - twice - and then my power supply. After that, the computer would reboot itself every few minutes and it was worse than before. So they sent me a new one. Problem solved, right?
Wrong.
I'm typing this on a brand new, factory-direct iMac. I've discovered that all of my original usb devices that i was having problems with now won't work on any other computer either - a PC netbook and an older G4 Powerbook.
I went out and bought a new keypad and a new flash drive, plugged those in and they work fine. I then dug out of my closet an old keyboard, and that also works fine.
I've come to conclusion that anything that was plugged into the imac when it was in the other room, and which didn't have its own power supply, is now dead. Was it a usb power surge? Can that even happen? What the hell?
But here's the most important part. I'm a stop-motion animator, for which i use a Nikon D90 connected to my iMac. The camera is fine, everything works, EXCEPT when I hook it up to my computer via USB, it isn't recognized. It was plugged in with everything else, so I'm afraid that something in it got fried too. I can replace the keyboards and flash drives, but I need my camera to be recognized.
So, in short - what the hell is going on, and how do I fix it?? Yes, I've tried multiple cables, I've tried restarting, I've tried safe mode, PRAM, turning it on and off, everything. My imac won't recognize my Nikon, and neither will my older powerbook. My PC netbook, however, does.
3 weeks ago everything was fine, and now this. Any help you could offer is very much appreciated. This is a hell of a mystery for which I can't find an answer on google, and I really need my camera to work!
A few weeks ago, I moved my 2011 27" iMac from one room to another. Once I got it all set up, I discovered that several of my usb peripherals weren't working. A few flash drives, a wired keyboard, a wired keypad, a wired mouse. They would light up, but they wouldn't actually work. They also wouldn't be recognized in the USB device tree under system info.
My printers and hard drives, however, usb devices with independent power supplies, worked fine.
I called Apple Care, they were very nice and sent out a technician to replace my logic board - twice - and then my power supply. After that, the computer would reboot itself every few minutes and it was worse than before. So they sent me a new one. Problem solved, right?
Wrong.
I'm typing this on a brand new, factory-direct iMac. I've discovered that all of my original usb devices that i was having problems with now won't work on any other computer either - a PC netbook and an older G4 Powerbook.
I went out and bought a new keypad and a new flash drive, plugged those in and they work fine. I then dug out of my closet an old keyboard, and that also works fine.
I've come to conclusion that anything that was plugged into the imac when it was in the other room, and which didn't have its own power supply, is now dead. Was it a usb power surge? Can that even happen? What the hell?
But here's the most important part. I'm a stop-motion animator, for which i use a Nikon D90 connected to my iMac. The camera is fine, everything works, EXCEPT when I hook it up to my computer via USB, it isn't recognized. It was plugged in with everything else, so I'm afraid that something in it got fried too. I can replace the keyboards and flash drives, but I need my camera to be recognized.
So, in short - what the hell is going on, and how do I fix it?? Yes, I've tried multiple cables, I've tried restarting, I've tried safe mode, PRAM, turning it on and off, everything. My imac won't recognize my Nikon, and neither will my older powerbook. My PC netbook, however, does.
3 weeks ago everything was fine, and now this. Any help you could offer is very much appreciated. This is a hell of a mystery for which I can't find an answer on google, and I really need my camera to work!
