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I have just installed MAC OS X 10.4 on a macbook G4 and ENTER key is not working I`m now nothing about mac os or apple notbooks. So is this some thing software problem that I need to change something in the system options ?
It could be mechanical problem but the key is not stuck or something it appears to be ok.
 
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What O/S did you have running before 10.4? And i'm assuming the enter key stopped working right after the 10.4 install so it would have to be a huge coincidence for it to be a hardware issue if it was working 100% right before the install.
 
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What O/S did you have running before 10.4? And i'm assuming the enter key stopped working right after the 10.4 install so it would have to be a huge coincidence for it to be a hardware issue if it was working 100% right before the install.
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The thing is that I did not even see what is installed before 10.4. The customer just sad I want you to install this DVD and I did so :D.

How to check if the key is working ?
If it was PC I would enter bios and try there is it working.
 
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I just tried googling to see if i could come up with a better answer and the first result was this thread :laugh:

Well if this is for a customer, did you see that the enter key worked prior to installing the operating system? If it did then it could be the keyboard map is set to an international keyboard or something, if you can get into a user account go to system preferences and then go see what your keyboard is set at.
 
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The keyboard is german layout. With installing it was set as italian I change it to german and english and still not working in all three.
 
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This some kind of Bios reset ?
 
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more or less, that was the solution reccomended in another post on the apple support forums about an issue with the keyboard
 
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