lost tyuio found

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lost tyuio found

I'd been having problems with my left shift key on caps, then yesterday I lost tyuio lower and upper keys.

I ran Disk Warrior to clean things up. Not a bad idea but still no success.

i turned Bluetooth off and everything worked for a few minutes then lost shift function with the left shift key on trying to cap those letters, but the lower case tyuio continues to work and TYUIO on the right shift key continues to work consistently, but only sometimes with the left shift key.

Weird. MNBVCXZASDFGHJKL:"POIUYTREWQ!@#$%^&*()_ At the moment, the left shift key works fine.

Regards,

y Ford

(hah, and now, NT!)

Posted on Mar 6, 2014 7:09 AM

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Ty Ford1 Author

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Mar 6, 2014 7:25 AM in response to Ty Ford1

and then an hour later, the problem again became sporadic.

Darn!!

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Ty Ford1 Author

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Mar 10, 2014 6:53 AM in response to Ty Ford1

After reading about someone who had a similar problem and described it as an issue with a swollen battery, I took my battery out and ran on ac power this morning. It's just been a short time (and we know how that is) but so far, all keyboard functions are normal.

The battery does not look perfectly flat. Whether the amount of distension is enough to cause the problem remains to be seen today.

I had a swollen battery a few years back that Apple replaced for free because it was a known issue. (Curiously, the woman in line next to me was charged for her swollen battery, so watch out for that.)

Regards,

Ty Ford

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Alias7

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Jul 11, 2014 6:11 PM in response to Ty Ford1

I have a similar sporadic problem. My r t y u i and o keys just stop working for several seconds sporadically throughout the day. Did your keyboard continue to work normally with the battery disconnected?

I found this link describing how to fix the issue: http://entropytc.com/macbook-pro-keyboard-intermittent-problems-solution/

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Alias7

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Jul 21, 2014 8:44 PM in response to Alias7

Does anybody know how to fix it? The link I posted above doesn't apply to my version of macbook pro. Does anybody know how to at least fix it for a couple seconds (like press the caps lock key twice or some other magical thing)?

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Nov 25, 2015 6:44 PM in response to Ty Ford1

Guys ... i have also ... the T Y U I O key failure ! Sometimes works sometimes NOT ! Come on Apple give us an answer !!! What is wrong with this !?!?

now they work perfect ! is not hardware ! ! ! Come on Apple ! ! !

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