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User profile for user: Looping
Looping Author
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ALT key does not work anymore at startup

For 2 days, and having not modified anything on my iMac, pressing the ALT key at startup does not allow me to choose between Mac OS Leopard and Windows anymore. I can change the system preferences to boot to one system or the other ; I have checked that the ALT key works with other softwares.
So it looks as something has been broken with the startup.
Could anybody help, please?
Claudio

iMac 24", Mac OS X (10.6.2), 2.8 GHz Intel Core Duo 4 Gb 667 SDRAM 1 Tb HD

Posted on Dec 6, 2009 5:17 AM

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User profile for user: Kay Marczoch
Kay Marczoch
User level: Level 7
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Posted on Dec 7, 2009 9:23 AM

You might try this:

Remove any USB device except mouse/keyboard
Perform a PRAM-reset (hold ALT-CMD-P-R until you've heard the starting chime 3 times)
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ALT key does not work anymore at startup

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