My G4 iMac Eats Keyboards
I’ve Googled about a bit and can’t seem to find a solution on this, which is surprising, given the age of the Mac, but:
My G4 iMac seems to eat keyboards.
A few weeks ago, I couldn’t roust the Mac from sleep because I couldn’t enter a password. A nine-character password that uses keys on both halves of the keyboard and four numeric characters yielded one character entry. Thinking the keyboard was just old and shot, I replaced it with a brand new Apple keyboard. Things were fine for a week or so, and then … the same thing happened.
Does anyone know what’s going on here?
Posted May 13th, 2007 in Apple and Macs by Geof F. Morris.
Does either keyboard work with a different computer? Are they both USB keyboards? If so, maybe the USB port is going south? Does the G4 iMac have Bluetooth? If so, you could try switching to a Bluetooth keyboard to see if that makes any difference.
May 13th, 2007 at 19:09To answer your questions in order: I don’t know, because I haven’t tested them. Yes, they are. Possibly, although the port works fine when I swap with the other USB device on it. I don’t think so on Bluetooth, but I need to re-verify.
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