My bluetooth keyboard was randomly typing letters by itself and now won't pair with anything.

My bluetooth keyboard was acting normally for ages, connected to my Macbook laptop. Then, out of the blue, it started typing random letters constantly and became unsable. I unpaired the keyboard with my laptop, but now it doesn't seem to pair with anything. I can get it into discoverable mode, but after I type in the passkey and enter, nothing happens and I get the message "the pairing attempt was unsuccessful" . I've tried to connect it to iPads, my phone, other laptops, but it doesn't work. Any idea what I should do? Thanks for the help.

Update: I tried to link the keyboard to my old G3 which it used to work with no problems an it took ages to link up and then on restart wouldn't link up. I'm thinking it might be a faulty old keyboard that died of a broken heart when the bluetooth dongle passed away. Poor thing

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Thank you for visiting Apple Support Communities.
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