Both enter keys and hyphen/ underscore key stopped working for no reason on powerbook g4......Any fixes?

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Both enter keys and hyphen/ underscore key stopped working for no reason on powerbook g4......Any fixes?

Hi hope someone can help??

I have an older powerbook that I use for FCP 5 and Logic 7....The computer was working pefectly and then I turned off for one week...When I restarted the enter keys and the underscore keys do not work for no apparent reason....all other keys work properly.

I have reinstalled OSX 10.4 and it did not fix the problem.

I have also tried suggested fixes with speech text etc....

Still not working.

Thanks

RJP

PowerBook, Mac OS X (10.4)

Posted on Jun 20, 2013 6:49 PM

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Answer 1

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dalstott

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Jun 21, 2013 11:41 AM in response to Robert Johnson Projects

I don't have any personal experience but found an apple doc for what it is worth.

http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1381

And a suggestion to check out.

If the mouse keys feature in the Universal Access System Preferences pane is enabled, many of the keyboard keys may not respond as expected.

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Answer 2

dalstott

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Jun 21, 2013 8:34 AM in response to Robert Johnson Projects

Try an external usb keyboard and see if it works properly or has the same problem. If normal operation is observed then you likely have a hardware issue.

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Answer 3

Nov 11, 2013 4:49 PM in response to Robert Johnson Projects

I had a similar problem in that the hyphen/underscore, plus/equal and other keys like the quotes, colons, etc., were outputting to the wrong symbols. I looked at System Preferences>Keyboard> Keyboard tab and then the Input Sources button. I had English and two other languages selected.

Having three languages selected was okay... but the problem was in the Menu Bar at the top of the screen. I usually have US English selected in the pull-down menu of "Flags", but I must have inadvertently selected one of the other languages which made my keyboard seem to be messed up.

See image below with the Flag circled in red at the top (US Extended selected). I hope that might be an answer to your problem. I was glad to see the question and replies.. it helped me to look a little farther. BJW

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Answer 4

Jun 21, 2013 9:10 AM in response to dalstott

Thanks dalstott, I tried an external and everything worked fine......Any suggestions on what could be faulty (conection etc....)?? Or why this would happen just sitting? The non working keys are only the hyphen, both enter keys and the back slash.......the equal and the shift on the right side are working fine. Thanks for your response and help. RJ

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Answer 5

Jun 21, 2013 11:58 AM in response to dalstott

Thanks dalstott for the info and for finding the link.....I have tried numerous things about keyboard and speech etc...... reinstalled osx just now and it did not change....have a feeling it ma be some sort of connection problem will open the machine up later...

Again thanks for all of your time on this.

RJ

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