Caps lock button issue

I'm very confused by this problem. Every 4-5 shut down and restart cycles, the caps lock light will come on at just before the log in screen. After I log in it stays lit and won't shut off. I've disabled the caps lock key in System Pref. but it still happens. Also when this is taking place I am unable to use the symbol keys that are with the numbers at the top of the keyboard. The only way to get rid of it is to restart it. I know it's not a big deal, but when I need to get stuff done, it's a pain to wait for it to star again. This all started after I installed 10.5.4, I doubt it has anything to do with it, but I guess any info would be helpful.
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I noticed that some problems don't seem to get attention. I am typing this using a bluetooth keyboard on top of my G4 PowerBook, which is hardly an elegant solution to my caps lock problem. If I spend close to $2000 on a laptop, which is close to the most I spend on any consumer product after a house and car, is it unreasonable to expect that after a mere four years, it can be repaired, rather than simply tossed aside. I am an expat living in a SE Asian country without any Apple Authorised resellers etc. When I make the trip to Thailand to get my machine fixed, I'd like to know that someone there will know what to do to sort this problem, without me being faced with the prospect of having to pay a lot of money to buy a new one or replace hardware that is not in fact needing replaced. That is why I posted on this forum. Was I mistaken in thinking that in the entire Mac using community, there isn't more than one other person having the same issue as me? Is anybody from Apple aware of this problem and do they have any idea how to fix it? I'm not seeking to be antagonistic here, I'd just like to think that somebody, somewhere out there has some idea, what has gone wrong with my PowerBook and can help me get it fixed.
p.s I sorted out the large fuzzy Apple on startup by zapping the PROM, so that doesn't seem to be directly connected to the game of green light tennis I can now play between my caps lock and num lock keys. (My caps lock key is permanently lit and when I try to turn it off, it reduces the volume of my speakers and "types" "rfr" and other such gobbledegook.)

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When i'm typing quick and need to type a letter in upper case at te same speed, it's not possible due the fact that even if i press the caps lock button, it does not work.
I've seen that many people has this issue, but i haven't seen any solution.
Could you please give me a solution if it exist.
Thanks
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Gero

I have not heard of this problem, and have been here for a while. I have three MacBook Airs (2012, 2011, 2010). All running Mountain Lion.
I rarely use caps lock, but use "shift'.
Please elaborate.

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I am working on this laptop that was working fine last week. Now it will not display, no post beep and the caps lock button blinks constantly every 3 seconds. What can I check?
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Try a hard reset,
Disconnect all external devices first.
Remove power cord and battery
Press power button for 30 seconds
Reinstall only power cord for first startup.
Power on
If no response
Try to Enter BIOS setup by tapping/holding the F10 key immediately after powering on the laptop.
Use Diagnostics to test your hdd - extensive.
If you cannot get the system to power on,
Manual: http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c02642701.pdf
Try reseating the hard drive by disconnecting & reconnecting SATA cable gently & firmly
Try reseating memory module
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This document will help you troubleshooting the blink codes you're getting: http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c01732674
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Okay so this has been happening over the course of about 2 months. My Caps lock button randomly flashes at, well, random times, more than 6 times and over the duration of >15 seconds. I have no clue why! It still functions as a normal caps lock button even while doing this, and only does this after it's booted up. However, once it's stopped flashing, the light DOES NOT remain on after the button is pressed. This caused sheer terror today as I tried entering my passwords on multiple sites and they all came up as "wrong", although it was just the fact I could not tell the Caps Lock was on. My PC itself is working A-OK although I am anxious that maybe it is a sign of hardware failure, like in the fan? The fan has broken once before and I fear if this is the case and I send my PC back to HP's support facilities I will lose all my data again. Last time, my machine was completely wiped and permanently renamed "hp" . But really, this is SUPER annoying and really a waste of time! I fear the worst, but hopefully /someone/ knows what's going on. Thanks again, Ed

I'm not sure if you've resolved this issue but I solved the problem by removing the charger plug, then the battery. While the battery is out, push the power button. Reinstall the battery and reconnect power. When the notebook rebooted, the caps lock light and num lock lights were once again working.

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Having the same issue!!! After I haven't pressed the Caps Lock button for a while, I have to press the button twice for the light to come on. Had a MBA, talked to a Apple Care representative and they said that was a defect, returned the MBA, bought a MBP and now I am having the same issue. If it's any reassurance I noticed this same issue in a notebook display at an Apple Store. I'm wondering if I not actually pressing the button hard enough each time.

Caps lock button acting very strange.

I recently got a Lenovo T420 thinkpad. Everything has been great until earlier today I tried to log-in to buzzport ( a GT website) and when I hit the caps lock button all these weird things happened. Google Chrome went into full screen, and the "elements" thing came up. Im not sure exactly what it is, but it looks like some sort of HTML code for the website. oh and if it also enters the text "09" when caps lock is pressed. well anyways, now this happens everytime I press caps lock. I opened notepad and pressed caps lock. The result was "09" followed by an endless stream of 1's which continued until I pressed caps lock again. This is very strange and I couldn't find any information about this on google. I don't know what could have caused this, but its very frustrating because this is a brand new laptop. Any help is appreciated. Thank you!
edit: so i've been playing with it, and im convinced that basically instead of just doing what caps lock does, it is pressing a series of other buttons as well including the 09, the 1's, and opening what i now know is called the elements pannel which normally opens with ctrl + shift + C. so in other words, for some reason pressing caps lock preses the buttons "09 ctrl + shift + C 11111111111111111111111111111111111111111"
edit 2: ok it just got weirder. I fixed the problem...sort of. I started thinking about everything i have done differently today. I mean ive only had the lap top for a few days after all. tonight is the first night i used the mute button. i unmuted the laptop, and now everything is fine. if i mute, then caps lock acts weird again. I could just always go to zero volume rather than mute, but just as a curiosity, why is this happening? it makes no sense!

I noticed that some problems don't seem to get attention. I am typing this using a bluetooth keyboard on top of my G4 PowerBook, which is hardly an elegant solution to my caps lock problem. If I spend close to $2000 on a laptop, which is close to the most I spend on any consumer product after a house and car, is it unreasonable to expect that after a mere four years, it can be repaired, rather than simply tossed aside. I am an expat living in a SE Asian country without any Apple Authorised resellers etc. When I make the trip to Thailand to get my machine fixed, I'd like to know that someone there will know what to do to sort this problem, without me being faced with the prospect of having to pay a lot of money to buy a new one or replace hardware that is not in fact needing replaced. That is why I posted on this forum. Was I mistaken in thinking that in the entire Mac using community, there isn't more than one other person having the same issue as me? Is anybody from Apple aware of this problem and do they have any idea how to fix it? I'm not seeking to be antagonistic here, I'd just like to think that somebody, somewhere out there has some idea, what has gone wrong with my PowerBook and can help me get it fixed.
p.s I sorted out the large fuzzy Apple on startup by zapping the PROM, so that doesn't seem to be directly connected to the game of green light tennis I can now play between my caps lock and num lock keys. (My caps lock key is permanently lit and when I try to turn it off, it reduces the volume of my speakers and "types" "rfr" and other such gobbledegook.)

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I just bought a new macbook air , and I found that the caps lock button not as sensitive as other buttons, what should I do now ?
I have to press a bit longer and harder to make it detected.
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I'm not sure if you've resolved this issue but I solved the problem by removing the charger plug, then the battery. While the battery is out, push the power button. Reinstall the battery and reconnect power. When the notebook rebooted, the caps lock light and num lock lights were once again working.

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I've just purchased a mbp with retina display and love it but the keys are a little sticky and making it difficult to ype well. Specifically the caps lock button. DIs this a common problem and how do I fit it?

What do you mean by sticky. The Caps Lock key on all new Macbook Pros don't work correctly, IMHO. You have to Hold down the C L key for a BIT for it to turn on. There is a long thread on it someplace on this forum.
If other keys are STICKING, you press it and let up and get repeated characters, then you have a defective MBP and since you just bought it take it back and get another that functions correctly. Apple has a 14 day No questions asked return policy. Take advantage of that policy and get a Mac that work right.

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Hi,
My application allows Caps letters only for every input field.
So I wouldnt like to write java script function.
Do we have any application level settings or caps lock button disable settings while page loading.
This assistance has more helpful for me.
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Rama Krishna Alla.

No, you (fortunately) cannot control the client side environment from the server side on, so you can't do anything with Java/JSP/JSF which just runs at the server machine and just produces some HTML/CSS/JS which is to be sent over network to the client machine. Use a client side language like JavaScript. No, there are no other ways. Maybe ActionScript (aka Flash) but this might not be what you're looking for.
For the case you stucks with JavaScript, there are JS forums at webdeveloper.com and dynamicdrive.com. Good luck.

Caps lock button

i just bougt a new macbook pro. if i push the capslock button fast it doesn't work. i have to push the caps lock button long if i want it to work. is it possible to turn that off?

Yes.
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HT6162 Way to go Apple - Now the Caps Lock button in iOS 7.1 is even more confusing! Why not finally change the keyboard from lower to upper as needed?

Way to go Apple - Now the Caps Lock button in iOS 7.1 is even more confusing! Why not finally change the keyboard from lower to upper as needed?
Or, allow us to change the look of the keyboard as we would like? How simple would that be?
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You can tell Apple directly at the link below.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

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Dear All,
this is my problem: the caps lock button (with green LED) on my MacBook Pro 13 "mid-2009, works in reverse! When the LED is on (green light) I type lowercase fonts, when the LED is off I type uppercase fonts!
I tried everything: booting from an external disk with different operating system from mine (I use MacOSX 10.7.5), reset PRAM, reset SMC, removed the internal battery, made test hardware, Disk Warriors, etc.. I brought the laptop at an Apple-authorized center where they tried all they know, but nothing was found.
I called Apple support and the guy suggests me to format the disk (I don't make it, and sincerely it's not seems the solution for me.
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Ennio Busato (from Italy)

Hi,
I just followed the steps “Before resetting the SMC” and afterwards the steps to set up the SMC, BUT THE PROBLEM STAYS AGAIN.
Now, I want try to remove the internal hard disk and start with an external hard disk (or with a CD); in this mode I want to see if the problem is related to the HD/System or to the motherboard.
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Caps lock button problem

I have the early 2001 version of the mackbookpro and what i realized is that the caps lock button is noticeably harder to press that the rest of keys.
I would just like to know if it on my computer alone or are others noticing the same thing.

You're doing pretty well if after 10 years all you have is a stiff caps lock button.
You could always replace the keyboard but that would cost more than it's worth.

HP laptop G62 Blue led light blinking on the caps lock button

When booting up get a black screen. The Caps Lock blue led light is blinking once.
1: Tried a hard reset Removed battery, held down the power button for 15 seconds and tried again no luck.
2: Air cleaned the power vents around the fan same again no boot.
3: Founf the LED code chart for the blinks mine appears to blink once and a pause then blink again
the blink code chart say CPU Not Functional.
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Emmersond

Dear Customer,
Welcome and Thank you for posting your query on HP Support Forum
It looks like your Notebook has a blinking/flashing CAPSLOCK light and a blank screen all the time
Whenever the Capslock LED Blinks once that means CPU not functional and we need to replace the Processor
However, I would request with you to perform the below shown step before contacting HP
Step 01. Turn OFF the Notebook
Step 02. Un-plug the Power/AC Adapter and also remove the battery too
Step 03. Press and Hold the Power Button on the Notebook for a full minute
Step 04. Test your Notebook with Battery and Power Adapter alone
Note: If you are still facing the same issue try to remove and reseat the Memory Modules of your Notebook
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I am using Lenovo T430 with OS as Red Hat Enterprise 6.5 x86-64. One big problem I am facing is this laptop model is not having LED for Caps lock. but we can not do anything w.r.t LED button if its not there... but what I am looking for is - some plugins or software in linux which can provide me visual indicator for Caps lock on/off.... can anybody help me on this.
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