6 keys "5tgb-[" on mac air keyboard do not work or act up

6 keys: "5tgb-[" on mac air keyboard do not work or act up. No known damage.

I took it to the Apple store and they checked it for free. They stated that they found liquid inside (to my great surprise), which costs $800 to fix. I declined, since a new one costs $1100. Even AppleCare would not have covered it, so it was not a problem that my 3-year AppleCare just expired.
I find it quite a coincidence that 2 of us had exact same problem within a week and we both posted it.

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If you can't sign in, then you can't troubleshoot and/or pair the keyboard until after that........ so, for that, you will need to borrow someone's USB wired keyboard in order to get signed in and to the Keyboard Bluetooth Preferences.

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1. Restart
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Hello & welcome to the Forums!
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http://www.shadowlab.org/Software/spark.php
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=ukelele
http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/
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Hi
Please find the steps given below might help you to fix your issue.
Go to device manager & uninstall the keyboard driver and restart the unit.
Please update the driver for Bios.
Try doing a system restore to the date where unit was working fine.
Open command prompt type the letter and check if does not work you might have to replace the keyboard itself.
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6 keys "5tgb-[" on mac air keyboard do not work or act up

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