Comments on: Apple Bungles Bluetooth in Mac Pro

By: CrackerT

CrackerT — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 01:13:35 +0000

YES! THANK YOU VERY MUCH. this had been driving me NUTS since I moved the machine into the closet. I actually ordered a dongle but it just confused the thing even more so I ended up opening the thing up and trying my luck. i didnt even have a BT wire (2006) but the #1 wire seems to be working like a charm! the hardest part is geting that antenna connector snapped back into place. dont try doing it while slouched over on the floor! thats all i can say!? THANKS FOR MAKING ME WASTE MY SATURDAY SJOBS!

By: Neil

Neil — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:58:49 +0000

You, my friend, are an absolute genius.
It was a bit of a fiddle, and I’m not 100% convinced the airport lead is connected fully, but I don’t use that anyway (certainly not very often). Had this problem since new and it’d always frustrated me. Now I can take my trackpad and keyboard to the sofa and away I go with the TV!
THANK YOU so much for taking the time to share your knowledge. You’ve made my day, and made the internet an even better place!
Cheers.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 13:03:21 +0000

None from me–I am still on that aging Mac Pro 8-core and BT is working well with the Magic Mouse. I’ll be getting a Magic Pad one of these days.

By: Bryan G

Bryan G — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 05:50:37 +0000

Any update on the 2009 Nehalem Mac Pro BT issues? I love my mighty mouse, but I just upgraded from a 2006 Mac Pro (thank you for the article, by the way! BT was frustrating until I read it and swapped wires) to a 2009 Nehalem, and the BT card and Airport card are on entirely opposite sides of the motherboard, with no way for the antennae to stretch/reach! I downloaded all the updates and read all the threads (disheartening that Apple refuses to acknowledge that it has a problem… the only ones they are hurting are their clients!!), and I am out of options… go back to a windows mouse or mighty mouse, or live with lag =/

any help would be appreciated!!

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:31:58 +0000

I cannot argue with that–Paris has always been great to visit, but it would be even better to live in the Alps (see the Tour de France every year, skiing, hiking, etc) and one can always take the TGV into Paris for a bit of the bright lights, history, architecture, etc. when one needs a fix.The last time I took the TGV it was quite a nice ride–wish we had those in the States.

By: kirk

kirk — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:15:37 +0000

Quite far from Paris, actually. I’m in the southern Alps. (Much nicer than Paris.) :-)

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:14:09 +0000

Nice. I still use a Mac Pro 8-core because I need the horse power for video and 3DFX work and a both it and a Macbook Pro for SW development but my wife and daughters use iMacs and Macbooks. I recommend a Mac Mini for switcher friends as the least expensive way to move over. Sorry to hear of your problems. Apple has been first in reliability and quality consistently in surveys for years now but they do fall down sometimes.

And you live in (or near) Paris you lucky dog.

By: kirk

kirk — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:29:32 +0000

Daniel: I sold my Mac Pro last year and downgraded to a Mac mini. I did have Apple Care, and they came to me house twice for different issues.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:19:06 +0000

@Dd: I suspect you are right mine is now unplugged and Airport and BT work flawlessly and teh Airport range is better as well.

@Kirk: with a small effort you have done a great deed for many. thank you. Sorry to hear aoubt you DL disc issue, I had 2 supper drives in my Mac Pro 2,1 and one of them was flaky. I always buy Apple Care so Apple Service made a house call to my home office and replaced it free. Over the last two years, they also had to replace the main board last year (One DRAM bank’s red LED wouldn’t turn off and I was worried about ECC problems), and they replaced the ATI X1900 card which failed. I always buy Apple Care–cheapest insurance policy against costly repairs in the industry. If your original warranty hasn’t run out, you can still extend it with Apple Care–if you can you should do it.

By: Dd

Dd — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:11:57 +0000

My guess is the incorrectly ‘BT’ labelled wire doesn’t connect to anything…

By: Dd

Dd — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:09:59 +0000

Hey Kirk. You’re a legend.
Using the unlabelled one fixed it.
Now my designer can use her BT mouse.
Many, many thanks.

By: Eolake Stobblehouse

Eolake Stobblehouse — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:04:58 +0000

Aha, a dongle! Didn’t even occur to me. Thanks, Daniel.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:22:05 +0000

@Eolake: The issues with the first gen Mac Pros (v 2,1) are the wires. Apparently, the new generations have a different cause of their BT connectivity problems. You might want to visit the Apple Support Forums to catch up on the efforts to find a solution. So far it seems Apple has nto acknowledged a problem–this could be that it is external interference or there could be a problem iwth a small number of systems. A lot of the people jsut gave up and bought an external USB BT dongle and that fixed it for them although it has other issues. There are 7 pages of posts. Bon courage!

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2231119&start=0&tstart=0

By: Eolake Stobblehouse

Eolake Stobblehouse — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 09:29:17 +0000

I wish that tip worked for me (the Magic Mouse is useless), but I have the 2009 Mac Pro, and I don’t see these wires.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 03:22:57 +0000

Thanks for this tip. I have a Mac Pro 2,1 but had never used the factory installed BT module until I bought a Magic Mouse a few days ago. Needless to say, its performance was uninspiring (jittery and jumpy and nearly useless) until I found your hint and performed the wire swaps. Now both the Air Port and BT works very well.