Stiff Keys on my keyboard

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Stiff Keys on my keyboard

Here in the past couple of days some keys on my keyboard have become stiff and hard to press down, compared to the rather easy use prior to this. My space bar, all my letters from "m" to the shift left are stiff, along with the space bar on over to the "fn" key. Anyone know why this might be happening?
Thanks for the help.

Also I'm using Snow Leopard, but I don't see why that would possibly make the keys stiff.

Macbook 13.3 Aluminum Unibody

Posted on Sep 28, 2009 7:12 PM

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Thomas Bauer

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Sep 29, 2009 4:03 AM in response to Celtic790

Hi, Celtic,
welcome to the forum

there might be different reasons. the most common one would be a drink containing sugar spilled over the keybord, so that the keys are getting sticky. i guess that is not what happened to your MB.

if you mean that the electrical contact is difficult to get, then it would be an electronic problem, most likely at the connection of the keyboard to its read-out.

if you mean that the keys are mechanically harder than before, then it could indicate a misalignment between KB and chassis of your MB.

in both cases i would check with Apple - especially if it is still under warranty. in any case, if you don't have experience in these matters, don't try to open it yourself!

Hope this helps,

thomas

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