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I think your keyboard has gone bad. Replace it and try your system again.<br />

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I think your keyboard has gone bad. Replace it and try your system again.


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As I mentioned, we have tried other keyboards (two in fact) with the same result. Any other suggestions? <br />

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As I mentioned, we have tried other keyboards (two in fact) with the same result. Any other suggestions?


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Sorry I took so long to get back... It seems the problem just righted itself after a week or two. strange huh?<br />

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Sorry I took so long to get back... It seems the problem just righted itself after a week or two. strange huh?


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This question is asked on behalf of one of our Mac staff.<br />
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A few days ago he noticed that the caps lock key seemed to be turning itself on without him pressing it. The next day, he found that pressing the caps lock key would instantly freeze the machine, requiring a cold boot to fix it. If the caps lock key was active at the time of the freeze, the keyboard would have to be disconnected and reconnected while the power was off to turn the caps lock off.<br />
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We have tried using all our other keyboards with the machine, but the caps lock crash still happens. No new software has been installed for some time and up until a few days ago everything was fine.<br />
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The system configuration:<br />
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PowerMac 300<br />
128 MB RAM<br />
8MB IMS video card<br />
4MB ATI video card<br />
Internal zip drive<br />
4GB SCSI HDD<br />
MacOS 8.1<br />
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Please help poor Jim!
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This question is asked on behalf of one of our Mac staff.

A few days ago he noticed that the caps lock key seemed to be turning itself on without him pressing it. The next day, he found that pressing the caps lock key would instantly freeze the machine, requiring a cold boot to fix it. If the caps lock key was active at the time of the freeze, the keyboard would have to be disconnected and reconnected while the power was off to turn the caps lock off.

We have tried using all our other keyboards with the machine, but the caps lock crash still happens. No new software has been installed for some time and up until a few days ago everything was fine.

The system configuration:

PowerMac 300
128 MB RAM
8MB IMS video card
4MB ATI video card
Internal zip drive
4GB SCSI HDD
MacOS 8.1

Please help poor Jim!

CAPS LOCK Key freezes system

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