my brightness and volume button are not working

my brightness and my volume button won't work, when I press my lower volume button it moves my tabs to the side and the brightness button simply doesn't work, I tried turning off m f1in the keyboard bt still it doesn't work, I tried shutting down my laptop then restarting it while pressing cmd, option, p, r noting is working so far, any help?

Posted on Apr 19, 2020 10:42 AM

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DonH49

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Apr 19, 2020 3:03 PM in response to saralabib

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SMC reset https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295

Zap pram https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063

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