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Q: wireless keyboard generating spurious characters

My wireless keyboard is generating spurious characters continuously

Mac mini, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1), late 2014

Posted on Dec 9, 2015 7:22 AM

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Q: wireless keyboard generating spurious characters

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by Tom Gewecke,

Tom Gewecke Dec 9, 2015 10:47 AM in response to pm8329
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Dec 9, 2015 10:47 AM in response to pm8329

Try another keyboard. If that works correctly, your original one is probably damaged and needs repair.
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by Barry Hemphill,

Barry Hemphill Dec 9, 2015 2:30 PM in response to pm8329
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Dec 9, 2015 2:30 PM in response to pm8329

Reset the PRAM. If that does not help, it is probably failing (as Tom indicated).

Barry
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