Caps lock is now permanently on

During an email my keyboard went to caps only (whether
Or not cap lock light on) and symbols not numbers.
I shut down and it restarted in safe mode and i cannot
Log in as i can't use lowercase and numbers
What can I do

Oh my! Fixed it - crumb stuck the shift key down. 60 min of my life wasted by a crumb!

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My wireless keyboard is faulty. The CAPS lock light is permanently on and the other keys do not take any input. I have changed batteries, cleaned contacts etc. I cant even log on to the computer as its either caps locked or no input

Wireles Keyboard issue. CAPS lock light permanently on, when it goes off i cant input anything using keyboard

Begin by resetting the SMC and PRAM each at least 2x. If that won't work book an appointment at your local Apple Store or AASP. However before doing so, after you have done the resets (assuming they do not work) test another keyboard to determine if it's the keyboard or computer.
Intel iMac SMC and PRAM resets instructions

Wired keyboard issues-caps lock won't turn off and other keys do not type

I sat down today to use my May, 2010 iMac. Fully up to date with Lion.
I am using a WIRED keyboard.
The caps lock key is permanently on and the remaining keys when pressed do nothing. They do not work. You can press the keys down but they don't type any letters or symbols of any kind.
I cannot log in because I can't type my password as the keys don't work.
I can't do a PRAM reset because the P and R keys and others don't work.
I don't know what an SMC reset is but I can't do that either because the keys don't work.
Why would a keyboard stop functioning? Yesterday, it was just fine. Now it doesn't work.
What causes the caps lock key to stay on?
I have unplugged the keyboard etc, but nothing changed.
Doesn't anyone know how to correct this problem? Do I just need to buy a new keyboard?
I called Apple but they were closed.

Please read teh directions for an SMC reset:
SMC RESET
Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord and all peripherals.
Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
Release the power button.
Attach the computers power cable.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
PRAM RESET
Shut down the computer.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
Turn on the computer.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.

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.
Thank

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.)

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.)

Can't remap caps lock in system preferences anymore

I just discovered that when I go into system preferences to set up a new keyboard under Yosemite 10.3, and click on "Modifier Keys..." to remap the modifier keys, the only valid mapping for Caps Lock is now "No Action." "Control," "option" and "command" are all greyed out. What gives? Do I have to buy a $200 happy hacking keyboard now to have Control to the left of 'a'?

Look at the headphone port to see if there's a small red light inside. Doing this in a darkened room might help. If you see the light, try inserting and removing a headphone jack a few times. Sometimes the port gets stuck on optical. If the headphone jack trick doesn't work, insert a plastic toothpick or maybe one prong of a plastic fork and gently jiggle it around. Don't use too much force, since you don't want to break that off inside.

"caps lock on" "caps lock off" voice

Somehow in setting up a new machine, I have turned on something so that whenever I go into or out of caps lock, a voice announces that to me. This is very nice, but I would like to know how to control this feature.
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The feature in Safari that is annoying you is controlled via the Preferences dialogue, Advanced pane. Clear the checkbox marked "Press Tab to highlight each item on a webpage", and it should go back to the way you want. Another possible source is in "Keyboard and Mouse", the "Keyboard Shortcuts" pane. Try setting the radio button at the bottom of the pane to "Text boxes and lists only" rather than "All controls".
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HP G42-475DX Blinking Caps Lock

Good Day
I currently have an HP G42-475dx which was purchased about a year and a half ago. This laptop has known to run fairly hot (around 80 degrees celcius).
I was using the laptop to play music, while the screen went blank. I took off the laptop.
1st - Upon putting on the laptop, the caps lock LED blinked twice (Indicates corrupted bios). I then went to power off, and leave it off for 10 minutes.
2nd - Upon leaving off for a while, the caps lock is now blinking 5 times upon powering on (General system board failure). I then proceeded to open up the laptop and remove the CMOS battery.
Upon removing the battery, and leaving the laptop off overnight.. The caps lock is now blinking once, (which indicates CPU not functional.)
I am unsure whether the motherboard has gone bad, or if its just the CPU itself. I need to get this laptop back and running for when i start school..
Any help would be appreciated.. Thanks!

SOMEGUY1771 wrote:
Good Day
I currently have an HP G42-475dx which was purchased about a year and a half ago. This laptop has known to run fairly hot (around 80 degrees celcius).
I was using the laptop to play music, while the screen went blank. I took off the laptop.
1st - Upon putting on the laptop, the caps lock LED blinked twice (Indicates corrupted bios). I then went to power off, and leave it off for 10 minutes.
2nd - Upon leaving off for a while, the caps lock is now blinking 5 times upon powering on (General system board failure). I then proceeded to open up the laptop and remove the CMOS battery.
Upon removing the battery, and leaving the laptop off overnight.. The caps lock is now blinking once, (which indicates CPU not functional.)
I am unsure whether the motherboard has gone bad, or if its just the CPU itself. I need to get this laptop back and running for when i start school..
Any help would be appreciated.. Thanks!
It's most likely the motherboard or a corrupt BIOS. CPUs rarely fail.

My caps lock was stuck and I shut down. Now it's coming back up in safe boot and asking for a password. It won't take my password, I believe because of the caps lock problem. So, how can I get in?

My caps lock was stuck when I shut down my computer. It is coming back up in safe boot (I had spilled liquid on it).
It's asking for my password - which has some lower case letters...So now how can I get in?
Is there a way to change this password or something?
I have a wireless keyboard, but it wasn't set up - so, It's not recognizing it.
Any ideas?

Take your computer to get the keyboard replaced, your lucky it didn't trigger the moisture sensor and brick your machine, so your chances of the machine working well after the keyboard is replaced is likely very good.
As long as the main keyboard is sending a caps lock signal, it's not going to work even if you get in.
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Replaced keyboard and now the caps lock light and num lock light are blinking and no screen???

I just replaced my keyboard on my HP DV6-2155DX Laptop and got it all back together and now there is no display on the screen and the caps lock light that indicated that caps lock is on and the num lock indicator light are both flashing. any help and all??? thanks you

Ouch, doesn't sound good, but...
Have you done a PRAM reset, CMD+Option+p+r...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
In fact, do 3 in a row, takes a bit of time.
Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)...
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

I loaded windows 7 and now when i try to type my password to log on to windows, the only button that does anything is the caps lock key, nothing else is inputting

i loaded windows 7 and now when i try to type my password to log on to windows, the only button that does anything is the caps lock key, nothing else is inputting

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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?
Thank you!

You can tell Apple directly at the link below.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/ipad.html

Compaq C700. I have changed fan, but now I have no caps lock led did I forget to connect a cable?

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Did I forget to connect a cable?
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If you have jailbroken the phone, and jailbroke the last phone as well, that is certainly the cause of the problem. Restore the phone to factory condition, without restoring any backups, to remove the jailbreak, and any potential malware you might have become infected with.
If you have not jailbroken the phone, it's not malware, it's probably a hardware issue. If you have had the same problem on two different phones that were not jailbroken, you need to evaluate what environmental factors might be at play causing damage to your phones. It could be anything from a bad USB port/charger that you're connecting it to, an overly-humid environment, a tendency to drop phones or any number of other things.

Dv7-1261 shut off and now caps lock and number lock lights flash

i have a dv7-1261 nm295ua#a8a. the computer shut off and now when i try to power it on the caps lock and number lock lights flash.

Hi,
Can you match the sequence of 'blinks' to those shown in the table below.
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Started with reversed caps lock, now.....

Yesterday while working in Word, my caps lock reversed function as well as num-lock. Shutting down and restarting seems to have fixed most of the problems but now to dim my screen or change the volume, I need to press the fn key in combination with the appropriate F-key. Also num-lock key won't function. Any ideas...?

Sounds like to need to do a bit of maintenance.
Repairing permissions is important, and should always be carried out both before and after any software installation or update.
Go to Disk Utility (this is in your Utilities Folder in your Application folder) and click on the icon of your hard disk (not the one with all the numbers).
In First Aid, click on Repair Permissions.
This only takes a minute or two in Tiger, but much longer in Leopard.
Background information here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25751
and here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302672
An article on troubleshooting Permissions can be found here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2963
By the way, you can ignore any messages about SUID or ACL file permissions, as explained here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1448?viewlocale=en_US
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Once that is complete reboot again from your usual start-up disk.

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