/ 9 6 3 keys not working now
An odd thing happened with my iMac aluminum keyboard (two months after my 3 year Applecare warranty expired, of course). A row of keys on the far right numberpad no longer respond. Specifically, they are the forward slash (/) nine, six and three keys (9, 6, 3). The numbers on the regular QWERTY keyboard section still work (which is how I am able to type them into this post), as well as every other key on the keyboard, including the other numbers and punction on the number keypad, but just not these four keys for some reason!.
The odd part is that my wife's Macbook also developed a key problem on the same day. She can no longer type a capital "I" or use many of her other keys.
One thing occurred to me to explain this improbable hardware failure to both computers at once, and that was the fact that I had bought an inexpensive Bluetooth wireless keyboard that works with Macs and had paired it with my iMac that same day to see if it would work. It did, but I did not want to use it with my iMac, so I took it up to the media room (where my wife works with her Macbook) and paired it up with the PS3 to use with that device instead.
I never paired it up with the Macbook, and the media room is on a different floor and other part of the house from my iMac in my basement office. So, I don't know if any extraneous Bluetooth signals are somehow causing this behavior, but it doesn't seem likely. However, that is the only possibility that I can even come up with to explain the sudden keyboard oddness on two different computers.
Any suggestions or similar experiences are welcome. Thanks.
iMac 24" intel 3.06GHZ dual core, Mac OS X (10.6.5), 4GB RAM, 500GB int HD, 1TB ext HD
