[wuzup101]

Okay so I get home from work today at 8 and shortly there after my brother sits down at the kitchen island and starts playing the call of duty demo on my new powerbook (see sig). I had played it the day before and I had showed him that I downloaded world of warcraft 3 (demo) and told him he could play it while I was at work. Though he's only 12 he's a very responsible guy and he took very good care of the PB (well okay he didn't really move it anywhere or anything like that). Anyway, when I got home and he started playing he got into the game a few min and he's like "chris I can't move". he had the asdw keys mapped for arrows and they didnt' seem to be working. I told him that it might be a bug and to backout to the options menu and restart it... he did and still nothing. I then exited from COD and tried to type in word... nothing on the right side of the keyboard (letter and number wise... iddn't check f keys) worked. The right side worked fine. I closed the book and let it sleep for about 5 min... opened it and couldn't put in my password... let it sleep for anotehr few min and then kepy playing around and what do you know... the keys worked again. What i want to know is what the heck could have caused this? I noticed that while he was playing the power adapter was unplugged (he had pulled it out slightly and it seems that he was playing on battery power). I was thinking it might be a heat issue because the machine seemed rather hot... anyway... just wondering... does this happen often... should I contact apple?

[wuzup101]

It just occured to me that there is a keyboard shortcut that does this... and would explain it perfectly. When I looked in the shortcut menu I couldn't figure it out exactly. I'd also like to point out that when I went into word it was typing on the keys that the number pad is on... however it was typing letters and not numbers! So... any ideas guys... I really hope this was just a very stupid oversite on my part (as I'm new to mac) and not a hardware issue... i'm guessing it was the oversite... hopefully...

[calumma]

Similar thing happened to me recently. Just about to give a presentation using Keynote on my new 15" PowerBook (1.5; backlit keyboard, 1 gig ram). Although I prefer using Salling Clicker on my T610 as a remote for presentations it is proving too unreliable at the moment (lost connection and unpredictable behaviour). So I'm using my Keyspan Remote.

I had been using the remote during the day to test my presentation without problem. I put the PowerBook to sleep and drove to the venue. The Book was set up and I tested the talk again and all seemed fine. Literally 5 minutes before I was due to talk, I noticed that the remote had stopped working. Not only that but the keys on my Book had started to act weird. Some were not working others were producing the wrong letter. I couldn't restart because one of my other accounts was logged in and I couldn't enter the password! So I was forced to do a hard restart. The Book was booting and my account logging in as my talk was announced. I launched Keynote literally with seconds to spare and the presentation ran fine with no repeat of the bizarre keyboard behaviour. However, such unpredictable behaviour is very worrying...

[wuzup101]

I think I'm going to call apple at sometime this week to see if this is a common problem. I thank god that I wasn't giving a presentation like you and rather just sitting around my house...