Will not see the USB ports
Mac Pro 2.8 GHz A1186 EMC 2180 Early 2008
Single Quad Core Intel Xeon 5400 10GB RAM
Machine was reported to have had a lightning hit. It tones normally and will boot up to the desktop. I can not get it to see any of the USB ports front or back. Put in a Mac rated new 5 port PCI-E USB card. No luck seeing keyboard. I put a fresh 160 GB hard drive in an identical machine and put 10.5 on it and matched a wireless mouse and keyboard to it. Put the drive in the suspect and it boots fine but the keyboard and mouse are not seen. Does anyone know if the bluetooth has anything to do with the USB? If not the next step I am looking at is replacing the bluetooth board. Since I can't get to a keyboard or mouse, I can't start up from an external HD or optical to run TechTool Pro. Any suggestions? I'm looking at a logic board repair or replacement for big bucks. If I can get to a keyboard, I'd at least have an operable machine. Logic Board part number 630-7997.
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Have you tried the AHT?
par rab777hp
I pulled the hard drive and got it to boot from my external firewire drive with TechTools but can't run It because of the keyboard. Thanks rab, but it's the same story with AHT. Am going out to see if I can find a Firewire to USB adapter since I now know the firewire port is functional.
par mayer
No Firewire to USB adapter in town. There's a possibility that the blue tooth - USB controller has failed but Apple won't talk to me about it. The bluetooth icon fails to show up on boot. My bluetooth dongles are USB. It will boot from internal DVD drive.
par mayer
Update - installed a PCI e USB card I got from Amazon that was rated for Mac and got nothing. Installed a Sonnet Allegro USB PCIe USB 2.0 adapter card and now have functioning keyboard and a working machine. Next, the internet. Have ordered in an airport card as this one appears fried and it shows no ethernet connection. If the airport card fails the I'll order a Sonnet Presto Gigabit PCIe Basic card for ethernet, no more cheap cards from Amazon. Besides it's only $29.00.
par mayer