Keyboard Dilemma

so on my ibook g4 here i have encountered an interesting situation. about five months i began having some keyboard issues, certain keys would not work and sporadic behavior from others. i called up the help line and we tried several things, non of which helped. we determined it was the keyboard and apple sent me a new one. i installed it and everything was peachy until about a month ago when my shift key decided that it would somehow reassign it self to type @WSX~ and simultaneously increase the brightness of my display by one and tab up to the previous field. annoyed, i took my computer to a genius at an apple store an hour or so away. he decided it was the keyboard again, and so i bought a new one. at this point my applecare had run out and my 90 day warranty on the keyboard apple sent me was also passed. my new keyboard arrived straight from hong kong and i installed it only to find the exact same thing going on.
i am out of ideas. i thought maybe i would reassign say the caps lock to function as the shift modifier but that does not seems to be possible for whatever reason. any suggestions [insert question mark here]

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Have you gone to System Preferences>Keyboard & Mouse>Keyboard Shortcuts and tried the "Restore Defaults" button?
Also, be sure the keyboard cable is well seated.
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Access Keys / Keyboard Shortcuts / Mnemonics

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You are right Dave, Windows 95 also generates the beep. I just hadn't
noticed it before. If you or anyone else finds a way to suppress this
behavior, please let me know.
Van Vuong
Lead Technical Analyst
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VoiceNow: 972.330.0822
Internet: [email protected]
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From: Dave Dixson (Ext. 513)[SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, October 03, 1997 10:43 AM
To: Van Vuong
Subject: RE: Access Keys / Keyboard Shortcuts / Mnemonics
I am using forte 3E under NT4.
I also can capture the speed key press, but I cant stop the warning
beep that is generated automatically by windows. Maybe this doesnt
happen under win95, or maybe you have the warning beep turned off in
your control panel.
Dave.
-> From: Van Vuong <[email protected]>
To: "'Dave Dixson (Ext. 513)'" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: Access Keys / Keyboard Shortcuts / Mnemonics
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 08:51:12 -0500
Which version of Forte are you using? I wrote a quick test program using
3.0.E and contrary to the documentation, I am able to capture the
Alt-key shortcut on my Windows 95 client.
Van Vuong
Lead Technical Analyst
Office: 972.985.5289
VoiceNow: 972.330.0822
Internet: [email protected]
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From: Dave Dixson (Ext. 513)[SMTP:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, October 03, 1997 3:38 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Access Keys / Keyboard Shortcuts / Mnemonics
I have also used the SetAsFunctioKey method to implement Alt-Key
shortcuts, but have found that because windows does not recognise my
pretend shortcut, it beeps a warning whenever the Alt-Key combination
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Has anyone found a way of stopping this from happening (without
changing the window control panel settings).
Dave.
From: Van Vuong <[email protected]>
To: "'Forte Users Discussion'" <[email protected]>
Subject: Access Keys / Keyboard Shortcuts / Mnemonics
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 18:47:29 -0500
Reply-to: Van Vuong <[email protected]>
I am trying to use the SetAsFunctionKey method and FunctionKeyPress
event to define keyboard shortcuts for window widgets such as buttons on
a Windows 95 client running Forte 3.0.E.
If I add the ampersand (&) to the caption of a button, the letter
following the ampersand is underlined. Normally, in other development
tools such as Visual Basic, if you do this for a button, then clicking
the ALT key along with that one letter automatically fires the Click
event for the button. There is no other coding necessary. I basically
have two questions:
1. Is there a better way of implementing this in Forte, other than using
the SetAsFunctionKey method?
2. If not, I have the following dilemma. My application consists of a
main window and several nested windows. The nested windows do not have
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registered in the parent window. Both the parent window and its nested
windows need the keyboard shortcuts and would therefore need to register
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Welcome to Discussions Nick. In order to find out what is causing the problems, go to Library>Logs>panic.log and have a look and see what is written there,
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This is probably the opposite of user problems regarding the keyboard/trackpad and turning the Yoga Pro 2 in tablet mode... Here's the situation:
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I'm using the program Mouse without Borders (from the Microsoft website) so that I can use my lenovo yoga keyboard/trackpad on my desktop.
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Please provide more information.
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You said that the keyboard and trackpad aren't working right. What does this mean, exactly? Regardless, the monitor you use should have no effect on the function of your other peripherals.

Mid 2013 macbook air keyboard/trackpad stop responding

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11/1/13 7:45:26.000 PM kernel[0]: Error: AppleHSSPIController::doSPITransfer CRC from device was invalid
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I will open up my MBA and the trackpad and internal keyboard are unresponsive.
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uncheck "put hard disks to sleep"
and UNPAIR both your bluetooth mouse and keyboard from this Mac that you are using with it currently.
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RESET SMC
Shut down the computer.
Plug in the MagSafe power adapter to a power source, connecting it to the Mac if its not already connected.
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Release all the keys and the power button at the same time.
Press the power button to turn on the computer.
Note: The LED on the MagSafe power adapter may change states or temporarily turn off when you reset the SMC.
RESET NVRAM
Shut down your Mac.
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 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.
Lastly, go into SYS PREFERENCES > ENERGY > uncheck "Put hard disks to sleep when possible" in both tabs.
Let your Mac go into sleep or close the lid for a few mins. and reopen and verify that your trackpad and mouse are fine. They should be after this,.........
If not contact Apple for full in shop diagnostic, theyll run a hardware test (unlikely causation) and reinstall the OS, then retest and LASTLY replace the logic board (very unlikely).

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