Q: Every morning, my keyboard is broken
Every single morning when I connect my macbook up to my thunderbolt monitor my keyboard (mac USB keyboard) is broken.
I then need to do the 'USB Dance' to get ti working again.
Connected to the thunderbolt display I have a USB mouse, headphones and the keyboard. Both the mouse and the headphones always work, but the keyboard never does. So to get it working, I unplug everything but the keyboard. Sometimes I need to shuffle the keyboard to a different USB port before it will work. Sometimes I need to move it three or four times before it works. Sometimes It just never works and I need to reboot the laptop.
This morning was the last straw... It took about 3 reboots and about 20 minutes of moving the USB port around before it finally started working. It was the only USB thing plugged in at the time and it literally took about 20 minutes of me moving the USB port around before it came good. I also was trying to connect it directly to the laptop (rather than via the thunderbolt display) and it still didn't work there. I took the keyboard out to my windows desktop, plugged it in and it worked instantly.
Any suggestions? I don't think the keyboard is the problem, it seems like some really crappy USB problems with the macbook and thunderbolt.
I have a late 2013 MBP running OSX 10.9.4
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
Posted on Aug 18, 2014 2:55 PM
