Macbook startup keyboard shortcuts not working

What do you mean when you boot to Windows? How are you getting to Windows without using the Option key Boot.

Was it selected from Startup disk in OS X? Or is it just booting to Windows as there is not bootable version of OS X on the drive?

Whether or not the keyboard works once windows loads doesn't mean there isn't some type of problem with it when the system frist starts up. If there wasn't a problem with it, or a Logic board program, then the Option key boot, the command+r key boot and the Reset key commands would work.

From what you've posted None of these keyboard commands work at all.

HOLD DOWN Command+Option+r then press the power button. Continue to hold down those 3 key until you see a Spinning Globe in the center of the screen.

If that does not work to boot the computer from the Internet recovery system (that is if your Mac was made in 2011 or later) then You Have a Keyboard or Logic Board problem. There is NO doubt about it.

Was therer a CD/DVD disc in the SD all this time?

If there was give the Command+Option+r key combo another try. By the way THAT IS the way to boot to the Internet recovery system when there is a recovery HD on the internal drive.

EDIT:

And you are Welcome.

i realise this is an old thread, but for the sake of other people googling this issue: i may have a solution.

reason i ended up in this thread is because there doesnt seem to be anyone experiencing exactly this issue (lots of people have the ' i only see a cursor when i boot with alt pressed'-issue; which is usually related to a failing internal drive (ie: no recognized system at boot, no EFI folder/partition recognized)

This issue is different in that it actually never reaches the EFI boot manager stage.

This is caused by a 'call' for a drive that is not 'answered' ; in many cases a defective hard drive (doh.) but, to my surprise, can also be caused by an (intermittently) defective Optical Drive.

Solution in my case: disconnect the optical drive (temporarily) and boot it up with Alt pressed.

This should bring up the boot manager.

This tells me the EFI system is waiting for the Optical drive to answer its call; which it never will, since it's defective.

Give it a try (you might have to get dirty and open up the darned thing), i'm pretty confident this should solve your problem as well, seeing all the steps you have already tried. (i went through the exact same disappointment of following up everyone else's logical suggestions, all to no avail..)

Good luck!

i m facing same problem now in mac book pro 2011 early with Ei captain. I can't press any startup key and it is showin no bootable devices. 😟