Wired keyboard problem on 27" iMac

27" iMac doesn't find keyboard on startup. I purchased it last August 2013 with a wired keyboard instead of wireless. Since then its happened about 4 times that it will not recognise the keyboard....says theres nothing attached - and its wired!! It seems to fix itself after about an hour (max) but I don't know how?? This is a nightmare as I can't work and its unreliable.

I have this problem also. I unplug it from my USB port and replug it in and that works. But I would like to find a permanent fix.

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Since I got the new 27" late 2012 iMac I am having keyboard issues.
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Then all of a sudden the keyboard does not work. Sometime a reboot fixes it but sometimes not.
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Since I got the new 27" late 2012 iMac I am having keyboard issues.
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Or when I hook up the wired keyboard all of a sudden the number pad on the right does not work but the plus and minus keys do.
It is very strange and odd.
When I called Apple tech support they said go get a new keyboard so I did.
Then when it happened again with the wired keyboard being the problem I took it down to the store and they said because I had bluetooth on it could have been communicating with the wireless keyboard and getting confused.
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One way to test is to Safe Boot from the HD, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, Test for problem in Safe Mode...
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