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Letter O Only WOrks with the Shift key

Tried New keybOard and relOaded Operating system

Anonymous May 11, 2010

This is NOT a fix, but a possible work around. What happens when you use caps lock (both with and without shift)?

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Boot from the install DVD. Go into Utilities. Go into Reset Password. Don't reset any passwords, just get into one of the screens where it lets you type things into a field. If the lower-case o doesn't work here, you have a keyboard hardware problem If it does:
Reboot normally, go into System Preferences / Accounts, and define a new temporary user account. Log out and log in as that user. See if the lower-case O works. If it does, you likely have a bad setting for keyboard type in System Preferences / International in your main user account.

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