ELP! keyboard problem still persists....

Still 'Elping' after all these years. 😟

I've had my MBP repaired by Apple twice for this problem and it's still broken. Windows in BootCamp seems to be fine.

Mine is worse since 10.5.7, I cannot believe it and no word either.Windows 7 is rocking too, I am beyond over with APPLE.I just hope my MBP video goes out b4 the time limit imposed(if it happens, hopefully not).The new MBP have no TI FW chipset.

Has anyone noticed the keyboard firmware that came out today.

Last week I contacted Applecare again and I sent my MBP in for another repair. When it came back, I couldn't believe it, they replaced the keyboard again. So I still had the problem.

I called Applecare again and was transfered twice, finally to a guy who seemed to be very knowledgeable. He had me try to reproduce the problem in safe mode, which I was able to do twice, while he did some research. After about a half hour, he gave me his number, said he would contact engineering and to call him Wednesday. if I hadn't heard from him.

Anyway, I hope this does the job. If it does I think I'll call him Wednesday to thank him. It's been a year and 7 months for me with this problem.

Anyone have any idea how many of us are out there? I am still having this issue also and it is driving me crazy. I keep hoping that the next rev of OS X will address the issue but this does not seem to be happening. Is there a new rev of keyboard firmware?

I had the elp issue repair after repair.

I now have a new unibody mbp.
No elp issue whatsoever.

It kinda confirms to me that there is a definite issue specifically with certain mbp's

The firmware I got through software update the other day was the same 1.0 keyboard firmware we got originally Feb. 19, 2008. It doesn't make sense to me, but I think that update was only delivered to my machine after my service rep. contacted engineering. Is that possible?

Anyway, it didn't change anything. After the repairs I've had done and a long customer service phone call yesterday, my old 2.4 ghz MBP is gone and a new one is on the way. Applecare finally came through big time for me.

After all this time dealing with this, I don't think anyone knows why this problem exists. A new logic board would almost certainly take care of it, but I don't know.

Wish I could help.

I dealt with it almost 2 years.
I had my Logic Board, Ram, Keyboard, and connecting ribbons replaced.
I asked them if they were replacing the parts with refurbished, because they replaced my logic board twice for other reasons.
Nothing helped. And it only happened on the mac side.
I really wanted to run windows thru a virtual machine, but the elp issue was too much typo risk for the work I do.

I now have a Unibody 17 and have not had one hint of "elp"
I now work from the mac side and have been using a VM to run windows.
Finally! everthing is working just dandy.

There was just something mysteriously wrong with those certain MBP15" builds during that time.

1.5 years ago the "elp" issue was a flaming topic, not just here, but in other mac forums as well. We now have only a couple posts that show up here and there.
Giving even more credence that it was a certain batch of MBP's.

It's over. My two weeks old Unibody works like a dream and make the past two years with my 2007 model look like a horrible nightmare, that I will hopefully forget soon. Countless replacements of (expensive) parts through Apple Care could not improve the ELP matter nor any other attempt, you know the score as well as you know that many critical opinions and ideas got heavily censored in that period. To me it clearly was a flawed line. But now it's behind. The new Unibody on the other hand, is a piece of pure art and in some strange way I feel as if we, the people who were shouting loudest and spending stupid hours of doing so, despite censorship and humiliation, have somehow contributed to its existence. Maybe I have these thoughts only to make me feel better. I don't know. All I know is that I now have what I originally wanted. Apple, I will try to forgive you but please please don't do that again. We keep watching you. ; )

I agree. I've had my new one for about 5 weeks and this is as good as it gets!

It's funny though, I still find myself holding down the first key press to make sure it shows up. Old habits die hard.

I guess the preferred solution from Apple is to just buy a new macbook! Expensive but effective.

Issue seems to be back on Snow Leopard.

Macbook Pro 3,1 model.

The 10.5 updates had fixed it for me, but unfortunately, now I have upgraded to 10.6, it appears to be back again.

I tend to agree that it seems to be when a USB mouse is attached.

Curious if anyone has tested the ELP issue with different wireless mice. I have a wireless Mighty Mouse and I do have the ELP issue.

Mine did it with a wireless Mighty Mouse and a Logitech V470 bluetooth mouse. It ELP'ed with both.

This had been bugging me for ages. Did the firmware upgrade and that worked for about 2 months, then back to the missing keystroke again. Upgraded to Snow leopard = had no effect.

However, I have just tried pulling the memory out, reseating it and then running the computer with the battery out. Haven't had a single dropped keystroke yet (touch wood).

Has anyone else tried running without the battery and did it work for long ?