Well Barry I'll b damned, that was exactly the issue. Huh, well that is really curious because it never occurred to me to check this to be honest since I just didn't make that connection between the usb and laptop keyboard. Of course I also stumped the Apple folks as well. :) Funny, I can't even remember when these got turned on and so it goes to show the simplest things can really get you. Here I was ready to jump through all sorts of hoops and so thank you very much. On Aug 5, 2009, at 8:33 PM, Barry Hadder wrote:
> > Sounds like you have mouse keys turned on. Try hitting the option > five times. You can also turn them off in universal access/mouse and > trackpad. > > Sorry if you've all ready tried this, but that's sure what it sounds > like so I decided to mention it in case you haven't. > On Aug 5, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Scott Howell wrote: > >> >> All, I posted this to another list and must have stumped the >> geniuses. First let me explain my setup. I have one of the new >> MacBook Pro 15-inch models. I generally use an external keyboard >> since I don't always need my machine for portable purposes. The >> other >> day I tried using the MBP's keyboard and and realized that all of the >> letters, numbers, spacebar, and caps lock keys do not work. Now >> before you say hardware, it is not hardware related. I have a test >> account and 9 out of 10 times I can log into this account and >> everything works as expected. If I log into my own account first, >> then >> I can't use the MBP's keyboard to log into any other account. Now >> the >> weird part is the external keyboard works perfectly and is not >> affected by whatever the hell is going on. I tried an archive and >> install with no success, I have booted from another Leopard disk and >> it works fine, I even just did the upgrade to 10.5.8, and this had no >> affect on my issue. I believe there is some software that is causing >> the problem, but I have not located anything that has not already >> been >> there and this is a new issue. If anyone has any thoughts, it would >> be appreciated. I only installed an upgrade to Dragon Burn and a >> trial of Cocktail, which I removed, but do not believe this is the >> issue. I also did install a copy of ABBYY FineReader and I could >> certainly remove from my system, but again, I don't think this is the >> problem. There is something being loaded when I log into the system >> and seems to have an impact system-wide in that I have to login >> first. I could easily rebuild the system, but would prefer to avoid >> doing this if at all possible or I'm going to have to run out and >> find >> a firewire 800 drive. Migrating all of my data would be such a >> painful process since it would take quite a while. :) >> >> THanks, >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
