Aluminium keyboard update failure

When I switch the Mac on, it asks me to update the aluminum keyboard. Once I click on the keyboard to update, it says the keyboard is already updated.? When i press Quit, it says that the keyboard is not up to date..do you want to quit? It does not recognize the update procedure, and it seems to loop with update message..can you help?
I have just installed the new OS update, so all firmware updates are current.

It might not need the update, but there is no reason why I should have an unneeded update icon on my launchpad...It's just not right. I just want it out of my computer!! I can hide it with third party applications that configure the launchpad, yes, but it comes back after some days each time. It's not a matter of need, but a matter of being there...always, without a reason. It's bothering me.

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I'm screaming at my new keyboard, I bought another Apple Aluminium Wireless keyboard to replace my previous one from 2007 that essentially went nuts after the last update.....I couldnt use the up and down arrows, the shift key would "hold itself down" etc.
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I cant handle not having control of my iTunes music.... I could keep BOTH my Apple keyboards on and use one for play pause etc, and the other for everything else.....
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Thank you very much for your help. I hope you have a great day.

alright its not doing it anymore after a restart. I think it was from plugging in a Logitech wireless mouse keyboard combo but i didn't use the keyboard so i didnt calibrate it. Sorry for the useless post.
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Hi,
I got the new aluminium keyboard yesterday - seems to be fine but:
While booting there were no keys recognized at all. Neither CMD-V for verbous booting messages nor ALT for selecting either MacOS or BootCamp/Windoze...
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Hi Doug, Hi Paul,
@Doug:
It seems to me that the new keyboard is simply not recognized by the bootloader/EFI/<whatever>. The girl from AppleCare asked me to check wether booting from the installation DVD works (i.e. booting with the "c"-key pressed) - it doesn't. Booting with CMD-s into single user mode doesn't work either.
So maybe you're right concerning the "standard feature", but if there's no keyboard connected there are no features - and "not connected" and "not recognized" seems to be the same here...
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Nice to know that it's not soley my problem
If I understand you right you're saying that on your iMac the keyboard is working correctly - even during boot. Is that right? So you are able to get the boot messages on the iMac when booting with CMD-v pressed (with the new aluminum keyboard of course)?
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Does anyone know how to solve: "Firmware update failure. Disk write error"?

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Here is the list of all what went wrong and where I am now:
1. My Ipod worked well
2. I wanted to update it, you know, the normal thing with Itunes
3. Every time I tried, my computer froze. I was unable to add only one song (both automatically and manually).
4. I took my external drive (where my music is) at work and tried again: same result.
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9. Now when I am running the Updater, it says it cannot Restore the factory settings giving this message "Firmware update failure. Disk write error".
I would appreciate any help because, during the last 2 hours, I read and tried all I found on the Support Help here on the Apple web side without any result yet.
Thank a lot for your answer

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Have you looked at Knowledge Base Document #301267 on "Disk cannot be read from or written to" when syncing iPod or "Firmware update failure" error when updating or restoring iPod?
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Hi,
I desperately searching for a working keyboard driver for my Apple aluminium keyboard, connected to my Windows XP Notebook at my offcie (at home, I use a Mac, of course
So I cannot use Bootcamp, but isn't there any usual XP-driver for the keyboard, or some other work around.
I searched already a lot in the web, but with no sucess.
thanks for your help

Hello spidermains,
Happy to see that I have a friend in that adventure
Look I have a blog entry here:
http://www.happytocode.com/post/Can-I-use-the-new-Apple-USB-Aluminium-keyboard-o n-Windows.aspx
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Use the new aluminium keyboard on a PC with Windows XP

Hello all,
That post is describing the problems I have when using the new apple aluminium keyboard on a PC using the windows XP keyboard drivers found on the boot camp CD (1.4)
This is my first post here so please be kind with me
First, let me know in case there is a better section where I should post that post.
I know that what I will ask here may not be a supported scenario. I understand that. But anyway. Here it is.
I am using Windows XP on a PC not a mac computer.
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Because it is an USB keyboard, I thought I like it, let's try it on a PC. It worked but the letters on the keyboard are not placed like those on a PC.
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A long story short. It's working and I'm typing that post right now on my cool keyboard.
so why am I here? Because it's not working perfectly.
All the keys are working perfectly, only the companion softwares are not.
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Boot Camp
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OK
I understand that. I guess this is related to the boot camp dual boot feature.
I guess that if this was working I could access to the bootcamp option panel and eventually have the opportunity to get access to the keyboard options? maybe I'm guessing wrong.
So, what I'm asking here is for the apple developpers working on the windows drivers for the apple hardware.
Do you think that you could test your drivers on PCs ? I'm pretty sure you could sell some more keyboard to the PC peoples as your keyboards are trully excellent.
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That would all be very nice.
If you need a tester for that scenario, count on me,
Thank you for your comprehension about me asking such a question
I love that keyboard and do not intend to stop using it,
John.

Hello spidermains,
Happy to see that I have a friend in that adventure
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http://www.happytocode.com/post/Can-I-use-the-new-Apple-USB-Aluminium-keyboard-o n-Windows.aspx
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"firmware update failure. disk write error."

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