Difficulties with Aluminum Keyboard

I am unable to get my iMac to recognize keys held down at start up, such as "C", "D" or "T". I did replace the original iMac keyboard with the Apple aluminum KB.
I would appreciate any suggestions.
Thanks,
MichaelT

Have you noticed if there were any firmware updates for your
version of Intel iMac not yet installed, which may affect the
ability of your older iMac to better use the newer keyboard?
Sometimes a software item can be found by running the
Software Update and see if some special item would be
found now the newer keyboard is attached to the Mac.
{And a very recent OS X version such as yours should be
already able to handle the current aluminum keyboard.}
Aluminum Keyboard Firmware Update 1.0:
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/firmware_hardware/aluminumkeyboardfi rmwareupdate10.html
At some point in the past when the new USB aluminum keyboard
was introduced, some users of that keyboard with older PPC Mac
and Intel Macs which shipped originally with the white polycarbon-
ate keyboards had a few issues with command and other keys.
Not sure if a power management issue or SMS/SMC reset could
help; or a less invasive PRAM reset would even work in that case.
The newer keyboard did have some software/firmware update in
some instances; but I am not sure of what products or files involved.
(More notably was the 'wireless keyboard' not being able to work
since the bluetooth wireless circuit was not hot on initial startup so
those keyboards were unable to do boot-commands; and in that
instance, the use of a USB keyboard was advised.)
In any event...
Good luck & happy computing!

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