Wireless Keyboard Caps Lock Key

I recently got the new iMac with a wireless keyboard. A few days after starting to use it, the caps lock key light went on and stayed on, even though caps lock isn't activated. Caps lock will activate when I hit the key and de-activate when I hit it again, but the green light stays on. Any idea how to fix this? Thanks.

As I mentioned in my first post, the keyboard worked fine when I brought it into my local Mac store; the problem was not experienced when the clerk connected to one of their display iMacs. The keyboard is under warrenty but it does not make sense to get a new one if the problem is not with the keyboard; I have not, however, tested another wireless keyboard with my computer.
Any other thoughts?

Similar Messages

  • How to activate the keyboard caps lock key?

    Hai,
    I am in a situation to activate the keyboard caps lock key
    through coding. I don't know how to solve this problem in
    solaris environment. If any knows please help me.
    Thanks in advance,
    Devarajan.

    Dear William Bill,
    Thanks for your reply,
    Ya, I have already configured the softkey template for Call back feature and tested the same.
    I am getting the call back notification if user is busy, but "Dial" softkey is not working wherein cancel and exit softkeys are working properly in call back notification ( i mean call back return message).
    Kindly help me here and thanks in advance.

  • Wireless Keyboard Caps Lock Problem since 2007 - unresolved

    My Mac Pro wireless keyboard "caps lock" stops working - if I reinsert the batteries it will start working again for a short period of time.  I've issues a case number with Mac Tec support; along with bring it into the MAC Store.  This issues has been brought to Apple's attention since 2007 and they have still NOT FIXED THE ISSUE.
    Any suggestions???

    Grant:
    My Mac Pro (10.6.8) is set for automatic updates; and, I even check periodically prior to reminder.  I also was at the PeachMac Store yesterday and they, too, checked and my updates are up-to-date.  If you have a "patch" that can fix this - neither they nor myself are aware of it.  There are multiple, and I mean multiple complaints out there over the internet on this very issue dating back to 2007.  Is there a "patch" that should be utilized on my MAC that didn't come across with the updates?

  • Wireless keyboard caps lock issue (not LED related)

    i just bought an iMac last week and I'm having a weird issue with caps locks. It seems like that particular key needs to be pressed harder than the rest of the keys to register a keystroke. If I hit it lightly, the key will depress but the keystroke won't register and the LED light won't come on. Any other key, even if I hit it very lightly, as long as it was pressed down, the keystroke is registered,
    I found the right amount of force where I can press it down like 10 times and it won't register the keystrokes at all. When I'm typing fast, I'll have to go back to capitalize almost 80% of the letter that need capitalizing even though I hit the caps lock key while I was typing. All the "I"s, the first letters of every sentence and the first letters of proper names.
    I've had plenty of keyboards, some wireless and I've never had this issue, nor have I had it on my Macbook. I'm just wondering if this is how it was designed to work or if I have a faulty keyboard that I need to go and replace.

    Hi Guys
    Glad I've just found these posts. Got a new 27" iMac just before Christmas. Greatly relieved that everything worked despite all the reports of cracked screens, etc. BUT - only small problem was the Caps Lock light not always coming on. Rang Apple and got a replacement. Now today I'm having same problems - first the light froze and wouldn't go off. Then it wouldn't come on. I've now tried your advice of switching off the keyboard and taking out the batteries. Works OK now. Hopefuly it'll stay that way. Only thing is - pity Apple couldn't have given me that advice. Reading these posts, there is clearly an ongoing problem with the caps lock light on the wireless keyboard. A problem thats been around for months. Clearly Apple's poilicy, as always, is to admit nothing until it comes up with a fix. Pity that policy appears to extend to not even telling their own employees that there is a problem ...

  • Wireless keyboard caps lock is inside out.

    I have a wireless keyboard working with Mac Air.   The caps lock key is randomly on caps with the light on  -  or off with the light on.  I've checked that the Caps Lock key on the mac air keyboard is off so that the caps lock key on the remote keyboard isn't getting a different signal but that doesn't seem to make any difference.  They apparently arent' related and probably shouldn't be related. 
    Suggestions?   What's most curious is that its random and shifting back and forth. 

    Sorry...I sometimes "assume" things...dumb on my part
    PRAM=Parameter Random Access Memory - reset like this:  http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11243
    SMC=System Management Controller - reset like this:  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
    Neither of those resets will hurt anything, and sometimes they "fix" odd problems.
    Barry

  • Apple Wireless Keyboard Caps Lock light doesn't turn off

    Hello
    Recently the caps lock button light doesn't turn off on my apple wireless keyboard. Anybody know how to turn it off. Every time i press a key, the light dims a little, but when not pressed, its fully on. I tried resetting it, taking the batteries off, unpairing it. But nothing =(
    hmmm

    This doesn't turn off your light, but you should check out CapSee on Apple's downloads page. (www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/systemdiskutilities/capsee.html) It puts a notification pane (or bezel) on the screen letting you know when you turn caps lock on and off. Looks just like the volume and brightness bezels. Very slick, and it's free.

  • Apple wireless keyboard caps lock light wont turn off

    I have an apple wireless keyboard that came with my 2011 imac and up untill last month the caps lock light wont turn off even when i turn caps lock off and its draining my battery. usually the keyboard will turn off whenever the computer was off but now i have to turn the whole keyboard off everytime im not using it to save battery.

    It is probably faulty.  If you are close to one, I suggest you take it to an Apple store for diagnosis.
    Barry

  • Wireless keyboard caps lock light not working

    Hey, said it all in the title but here's the story...
    Got home today and realized that the caps lock LED don't light up anymore. Has anyone else had similar problems? If so, how was your situation rectified?
    The keyboard still works fine, don't think its a bad enough problem to have it replaced or be without it for ages. Could see if apple will allow a straight swap at the shop...

    Hi Guys
    Glad I've just found these posts. Got a new 27" iMac just before Christmas. Greatly relieved that everything worked despite all the reports of cracked screens, etc. BUT - only small problem was the Caps Lock light not always coming on. Rang Apple and got a replacement. Now today I'm having same problems - first the light froze and wouldn't go off. Then it wouldn't come on. I've now tried your advice of switching off the keyboard and taking out the batteries. Works OK now. Hopefuly it'll stay that way. Only thing is - pity Apple couldn't have given me that advice. Reading these posts, there is clearly an ongoing problem with the caps lock light on the wireless keyboard. A problem thats been around for months. Clearly Apple's poilicy, as always, is to admit nothing until it comes up with a fix. Pity that policy appears to extend to not even telling their own employees that there is a problem ...

  • Wireless keyboard caps lock light goes out

    I recently got an Apple Wireless Keyboard along with my new iMac. It seems that after a few days, the caps lock light stops coming on when it should. If i restart, the functionality comes back. Is that a software bug or a bluetooth bug, or neither? Anyone else noticing this problem?

    You've posted this in the "Older Hardware Products" forum which mostly involves pre-G4 and the pre-wireless era stuff. I can't see an immediate alternative forum but I can't help think there must be a better one than this. On the other hand somebody with bluetooth, airport extreme, Intel Mac, and Leopard may wander through this museum someday and reply to your post.
    Knowing nothing about wireless my question is does it lose the functionality or is it just the light going out? Weak battery (I suppose it must have a battery)?

  • TS3092 My Apple bluetooth wireless keyboard caps lock keeps changing so that sometimes the caps are on when the lights on and sometimes the caps are on when the light is off. How do I control this?

    My caps lock keeps changing. That is, sometimes the caps are locked and the light is on the key and sometimes the caps are on when the light is off. It changes without my knowing it. Also when I hold the shift key down I hear a double click noise which changes the keys in some way. How do I get it to not change?

    Try resetting SMC and NVRAP and then reboot.
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH4405
    Try booting the Recovery Partition.  Power off, boot and then hold down the Command and R keys.  Is the screen still black?  If so it is not a software problem so take it in for diagnosis and repairs.  Make a Genius Bar reservation http://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/ or find an Apple Authorized Service Provider https://locate.apple.com/country .
    If you are running Mavericks try upgrading to 10.9.2.  It has a fix for black screen problems.

  • HT1338 Occasionally my caps lock key blinks some time later my keyboard locks up what is causing the blinking and is it related to my keyboard locking.

    Occasionally my caps lock key blinks some time later my keyboard locks up what is causing the blinking and is it related to my keyboard locking.
    This blinking occurs when no keyboarding is going on.
    Back-up is not running.
    I am on-line.

    Anthony:
    The normal practice is to use the Shift key when typing a single Capital letter, as in a name or the beginning of a sentence, and the Caps Lock key to type all caps. The easiest thing would be for you to retrain your little finger to use the Shift instead of Caps Lock. I know of no way to display an icon at the bottom of the monitor to display that the caps lock key is engaged.
    cornelius

  • My/keyboard/green/light/goes/out/and/the/space/bar/and/caps/lock/keys/donot/work /.I/have/100%/battery/life.I/show/connected/to/bluetooth.Anyone/know/the/approxi mate/life/of/a/keyboard?Mine/is/about/4/years/old.Using/an/iMac/about/4/years/ol d,too.

    My/keyboard/green/light/goes/on/and/off./The/space/bar/and/caps/lock/keys/do/not /work/.I/have/100%/battery/life.I/show/connected/to/bluetooth.Anyone/know/the/ap proximate/life/of/a/keyboard?Mine/is/about/4/years/old.Using/an/iMac/about/4/yea rs/old,too.

    Could be an early retirement problem.  There is no fixed lifespan for anything, as you know.   Find a friend with a keyboard and test that in your machine.  That will show if it is your keyboard or your computer.   We can progress from there.

  • 2009 Aluminum Keyboard caps lock light not functioning

    Greetings:
    I bought my wireless keyboard in February 2010 and it works but lately the caps lock light has not been coming on when I hit the caps lock key. I took it to a local Apple Specialist to try to figure out what is going on and it of course worked when he paired it to his machine.
    I got it back home and re-paired it to my mini (2009 2.25 mhz intel) and it worked for the day... now it is not functioning again. I unpaired the keyboard and re-paired it again and the light functions again for the time being. But if it holds to pattern, tomorrow it will be non-functioning again.
    I have the latest update for the keyboard installed and I am at Snow Leopard 10.6.3 on the system.
    It appears that if the keyboard goes to sleep, this phenomenon happens. Any ideas?

    I think that re-pairing the keyboard does essentially the same thing as restarting the machine would do with regards to resetting the keyboard. I did replace the batteries today just to see if that would help. -- so far, the light is working still and the keyboard has been asleep for a couple of hours since I replaced the batteries. They showed 81% when I replaced them this morning.
    I would like to know if this is a common problem. The keyboard always works, just the caps lock light stops working which is annoying for me because I tend to hit it by accident and the light is a good way to see that I did, in fact, hit the key.
    I am marking the question as answered, but hopefully someone has a real fix for it, or Apple has a new firmware update coming soon

  • When i press the i key with the shift key nothing happens. I can get a capital i only by pressing the cap lock key whats wrong.

    When i press the i key with the shift key nothing happens. the only way I can get a capital i is by using the caps lock key what is going on. Also from time to time my mouse acts like someone is sitting on it. this stops when i press the command key. i am using the lateist wireless mouse and keypad.

    does it only happen with the i key?
    if it doesnt then try presing shift first then i (or any key) second instead of at the same time.
    if it only happens with the i key then what i would do is take the keyboard and mouse to an apple store and ask them if they will hook it up on their computer to see if it is the keyboard or computer.

  • Caps Lock Key not displayed when active on Key board for HP P7 1410

    How can I tell if my Caps Lock Key is active??

    Hello Again,
    If you click on the link below it shows you how to sync, and the instructions are pretty standard with other wireless devices we have. The little receiver that you have plugged into the computer might not have a button on it, but there should be a sync button on the bottom side of the keyboard.  
    Also after doing some research I was able to find out that less and less of our wireless keyboards are coming with the standard caps lock light. Also if the wording itself doesn't come up on the screen when you press the button and the keyboard is functioning as such then the keyboard doesn't provide that function.
    How To Sync
    Please respond at your earliest convenience.
    Thanks 
    Clicking the White Kudos star on the left is a way to say Thanks!
    Clicking the 'Accept as Solution' button is a way to let others know which steps helped solve the problem!

Maybe you are looking for

  • Can't install maverick on my wiped out late 2013 retina macbook pro. Please help.

    So, i decided to install windows 8.1 alongside mavericks on the mac and tried using bootcamp which failed, so i manually created a partiton using disk utility which worked, later i decided to create a shared partition so windows and mac could share f

  • Upgrading to SMC 4.0? Clean Slate.....

    Current environment is SMC server 3.6.1, with various agents versions running on clients. Running ver 3.5, 3.6 and some older servers running Solstice Enterprise Agents. As I try to move this environment from the state I inherited from, to something

  • Why can't I sync iTunes music to my nano?

    I just bought an Apple Nano and I cant get my music thats in my music cloud to transfer to the Nano.  Someone Help!!!

  • Unable to fix "Can't hear through the receiver" problem

    A previous thread discussed the issue of something causing the receiver (handset) to think that a headset was plugged in. It referred to this article as a solution: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306910 However, that is not working fo

  • Premiere Elements 4.0 shuts down at the 15 min mark of my slideshow

    I have created a photo slideshow in Premiere Elements 4.0. I'm using a Gateway Laptop - 2.00 GB, 32-Bit operating system. I checked available space on my C-hard drive and it shows: 43.6 GB of available space. At approximately 15 minutes and 44 second