Very Strange USB Keyboard Behavior

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I've had the Mac version of the Razor Black Widow USB Keyboard for almost a year now. I've also had the Logitech G5 USB mouse for about 3-4 years.

I've used the keyboard with zero problems on my iMac running 10.5. Shortly after I bought the keyboard I bought a MBP running 10.6. The MBP was a lemon and after being plauged with problems Apple recently gave me a new MBP running 10.8.

Right before the bad MBP (10.6) was returned to Apple I noticed a strange thing with my keyboard, as soon as I would touch a key I would lose the ability to type, on both the USB and MBP Keyboard, and any left mouse click would respond as a right mouse click. This happened on both my USB mouse and the MBP's trackpad. I just chalked it up to the MBP being a lemon.

I received my new MBP (10.8) about 2-3 weeks ago and everything has been working great. I was on the computer for about 3 hours last night and then the same exact keyboard problems were happening. I don't know what's going on.
I shut it down and uplugged everything and went to bed. I turned it one this morning, plugged in the keyboard and it's the same exact problem.

*When I unplug the keboard, the problems go away.
*I usually have it plugged into a USB hub, but plugged directly into the MBP the problem is the same.
*The USB mouse fuctions as normal when the keyboard is unplugged.

Any idea what could be happeneing?

Thanks.
 

chscag

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Sounds like the keyboard may be defective or intermittent. Since the internal keyboard works OK, it has to be a problem with the USB keyboard. Have you another spare keyboard you can try?
 

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