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| Click here to select a new forum. | | Strange keyboard problem | Posted by: beachycove on 2007-07-06 08:56:26
Yesterday I installed 7.1 on an LC475, with an early "Apple Keyboard" and a square mouse attached. These were OEM SE/30 peripherals, as far as I can gather, but they came to hand out of the pile first, and I figured I'd simply swap another keyboard in later. Never had any problems doing that general sort of thing before.
Installation went fine. Then today I did the swap with several other known-working keyboards: the "Apple Keyboard II" was the first one I tried, then later ones. Booted up, wanting to install some applications, but none of the later keyboards worked on the LC475. I thought originally that I might have blown the ADB port, but then in a moment of inspiration/desperation I reconnected the keyboard from the SE/30, and everything worked again. Very odd.
This is new to me, and I have been around the Mac world for a good while (though my experience of pre-1991 hardware is very limited). It is, of course, possible that the adb port is simply flaky, but is there a control panel or extension that was not installed because the older keyboard was attached initially?
Help appreciated!
| Posted by: TheINDIGO.fs on 2007-07-06 09:06:13
Have you thought of connecting your keyboards with other ADB Macs? Maybe they are broken... I'm using the Apple Keyboard II sometimes and I haven't used it while installing 7.1 on my LC475...
| Posted by: beachycove on 2007-07-06 09:13:04
The other keyboards work fine: one has been connected for years to a Q605, so you would think that it'd work with an LC475.
Mind you, I suppose I could swap the hard drive from the Q605 in and see if the LC475's logic board is problematic that way....
Must go out just now, however.
| Posted by: Charlieman on 2007-07-07 10:15:22
Does the mouse still work when connected via a "faulty" keyboard?
| Posted by: beachycove on 2007-07-07 18:46:39
Stranger still: Now it's working fine, and no changes were made. Gremlins in the system, perchance?
(The mouse didn't used to work, either.)
Well, I'll run with it for now.
| Posted by: Dan 7.1 on 2007-07-07 18:53:14
well duh...mac hardware fixes itself. it was part of a huge underground conspiracy involving underpants gnomes to create the T-1000 Terminator who, by the way, used the Apple III, the most evil of all apples!
| Posted by: beachycove on 2007-07-07 20:11:31
That explains everything.
| Posted by: Quadraman on 2007-07-08 10:37:56
All Macs come with built in nano-bots for fixing errors. That's why old Macs never die.
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