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2006 / Shift key no longer works on either keyboard

« on: December 20, 2006, 04:24:56 PM »

QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Dec 20 2006, 04:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

And what did you find at the Apple Forums?

Mostly that one should check the Speech or International preferences and see if the key is assigned to anything. Mine isn't. A couple people just had hardware problems with keyboard wiring. Some of the posts about the shift key not working are just unanswered.

One poster suggested troubleshooting startup and login items, checking the console logs, and resolving disk, permission, and cache corruption. Those are what I'm working on next, but I haven't done any of those things before, so hopefully the instructions I'm about to follow will work. I'm backing up my hard drive right now.

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2006 / Shift key no longer works on either keyboard

« on: December 20, 2006, 12:58:18 PM »

It's the regular wired Mac keyboard, and the other is a wired Adesso for Mac. I'd already downloaded that Mini '06 keyboard update, but when I opened it I got an error message that it couldn't be installed on this machine.                          

It's only the left shift key that doesn't work, there are left and right shift keys on both keyboards. On the Mac keyboard, the left shift key doesn't work at all, and on the Adesso, it comes and goes. Very strange.

I've changed USB ports, and made sure that the left shift key is not a hot key for anything. I ran disk utility and there weren't any permissions listed about a keyboard.

My system has been running very slowly lately and I'm terrified that this is a sign of something really wrong. I called Apple and I'm out of warranty, they said I'm SOL and that I should check their support site and try to "troubleshoot and isolate the issue."

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2006 / Shift key no longer works on either keyboard

« on: December 19, 2006, 11:02:12 PM »

A while ago, my mac keyboard stopped typing a capital z. "Shift-z" didn't do anything. Then the small z wouldn't type... then the x, and the c....
so I switched out to an adesso keyboard, and it was fine for a while, but now I can't type capital z again. I already reinstalled the driver, but nothing changed. Still can't type a capital z.

There's an apple keyboard update on apple.com, but when I tried to install it, I got an error that it couldn't be installed on this machine (Mac Mini, 10.4..

What on earth is going on, and how can I fix it?

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2006 / Ok, so who has bought a refurb from Apple?

« on: December 05, 2006, 09:35:44 PM »

The (new) Mini I bought was a lemon, just wouldn't work, and the one they replaced it with was a refurb, and the optical drive doesn't work half the time. They don't care, either. A guy at the store actually told me not to bother returning it because I'd just get someone else's messed up refurb. The Apple store in Emeryville.