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My keyboard is currently not working (literally nothing appears on a password screen when I start typing, both in safe mode and in normal mode). I am currently typing this on an external keyboard. I have tried:

  • NVRAM reset
  • SMC reset
  • Removing the password from the password screen
  • Trying another user account, no go.
  • I would really prefer not to wipe the system.

I just want to know if this is a hardware thing or just a software one. I would like to believe that it's just software because I can get to safe mode (pressing Shift), do NVRAM reset (ShiftOptionPR), and get to the recovery partitions all on the internal keyboard.

How can I fix this?

Update: Hardware diagnostics (pressing D on the internal keyboard whens starting the machine) did not find something wrong with they keyboard

Update: I don't think this is a duplicate of Keyboard key stuck or not being recognized; how to fix as I am able to boot to recovery/safe mode.

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    Possible duplicate of Keyboard key stuck or not being recognized; how to fix
    – Allan
    Commented Oct 27, 2017 at 19:11
  • Since you can boot to other modes that require keyboard commands, there's a good change it's software based. But to help confirm, if you boot to recovery mode (hold Command-R while booting) you should be able to open a terminal application from the menu. Do all of your letters and numbers output?
    – moneyt
    Commented Oct 27, 2017 at 20:36
  • @moneyt no keys work in recovery mode. :(
    – Daryll Santos
    Commented Oct 29, 2017 at 8:47

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Since the hardware diagnostics test did not find anything wrong with the keyboard, this is more than likely a software glitch.

Take your laptop into an Apple Store, they always help out with things like this.

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