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From: roland@dna.lth.se (Roland Mansson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Another bizarre keyboard problem
Message-ID: <1990Aug4.110706.28526@lth.se>
Date: 4 Aug 90 11:07:06 GMT
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In article <4614@adobe.UUCP> gelphman@adobe.UUCP (David Gelphman) writes:
>Upon initial power up, about 1/2 the time the Mac doesn't seem to recognize 
>the keyboard. I start up in MultiFinder with a few startup apps and once it
>boots all the way up no characters can be entered from the keyboard.
>If I reboot without power cycling (Restart from the Finder menu), it almost
>always comes up OK the second time. 
>	The other 1/2 of the time upon cold power up, it comes up OK.

I've excatly  the same problem, also with a MacII. I use ADBProbe (a cdev)
to reset the ADB bus. It works, but is of course a little bit inconvinient...
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