Keyboard problem: some keys seem to be linked.

Example: if I press the 1 key it turns the volume up. It just happened minutes ago. Please help!

lacue wrote:
Something is seriously wrong with this.
Yes. It sounds like a hardware problem. Try an external keyboard and/or try booting from the Install DVD or Recovery partition and test. If the symptom is the same, next stop is the Apple Store or AASP.

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