pantosj
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Okay, here's one for the books. My wife's Japanese iBook had a video card failure a few months ago and we had to send it to Apple for a free repair. When the iBook came back, the keyboard did not work as it once did. Somehow, the computer thought it had a Western-style keyboard arrangement--a different key arrangement from the actual Japanese arrangement on her iBook. For example, when you pushed SHIFT-2, you got the @ sign, just like on my Western keyboard on my iMac. But on her computer, the symbol above the 2-key is the quote-sign, not @.
We called Apple about it and they worked on it for weeks. No, it wasn't the international settings in the System Prefs. No, it wasn't the PRAM, we tried resetting that. No, it wasn't even OSX. We even clean installed OSX using the original Japanese OSX disk that came with the computer. Nothing worked and we just gave up.
Then, today, her computer froze and we couldn't force it off by holding the power button down. So, I opened up the battery case and forced the machine to turn off that way. When it rebooted, my wife announced with shock: "the keyboard works right!"
Go figure.
We called Apple about it and they worked on it for weeks. No, it wasn't the international settings in the System Prefs. No, it wasn't the PRAM, we tried resetting that. No, it wasn't even OSX. We even clean installed OSX using the original Japanese OSX disk that came with the computer. Nothing worked and we just gave up.
Then, today, her computer froze and we couldn't force it off by holding the power button down. So, I opened up the battery case and forced the machine to turn off that way. When it rebooted, my wife announced with shock: "the keyboard works right!"
Go figure.