The G5 was down

admin — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:14:09 +0000

An odd thing happened to me as I was coding I got locked out of all my applications, no control with the keyboard or mouse.. odd. Anyways, I powered down the machine and booted in to safe mode where I was able to disable any startup items – then I rebooted normally, unfortunately I encountered a flashing icon with a graphic of the earth in it, nice. After a little research with my co-worker we found that on startup if you hold down the option + command + p + r keys, then listen for the startup chime for 3 times, then release this will clear out your PRAM. So, fortunately the machine seems ok, unfortunately I have to get back to work.

Keyboard ~ Number Pad Disabled

admin — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 23:08:58 +0000

On my Mac G5 with OS X 10.4.10 my keyboard’s number pad stopped working in most applications, like Firefox for one. As annoying as it is to lose your number pad, I finally found the solution.

In short I pulled up spotlight and searched for the following 2 files:

Both are located: /Users/Library/Preferences/

com.apple.systempreferences.plist
com.apple.universalaccess.plist

.. then I renamed them, respectively:

com.apple.systempreferences.plist.BAK
com.apple.universalaccess.plist.BAK

.. and then rebooted the machine.

One other suggestion, although it did not work for me, but may work for you, is to hold down cmd + clear button for 5 seconds. Another thought is to check your accessibility settings for your keyboard.

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The G5 was down

Keyboard ~ Number Pad Disabled