Wired keyboard not found

Hi I just did an update (stupidly didnt check wat the update was) of my 10.8.3 OSX (14th May 2013) on a brand new imac and now the wired keyboard isnt found - maybe it's a faulty keyboard but we are talking less than 2 weeks old and i had no problems prior to the update and nothing happened between then and now. Has anyone else had this problem? any ideas?
thanks

All I can think of trying is to try re-applying the 10.8.3 update using the combo (assuming your Mac didn't come pre-installed with 10.8.3 and you upgraded from an earlier version of 10.8 - .1. or .32 perhaps).
The combo incorporates all revisions since 10.8.0 and using it can sometimes fix odd issues. It's OK to re-install it over the top of what's already there, but I'd recommend you have tried and tested backup so that you can restore to the previous condition if things go wrong (they shouldn't):
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1640

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