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<blockquote data-quote="Jurgen S." data-source="post: 756776" data-attributes="member: 61048"><p>Okay, so it turns out the problem was my new mac keyboard, which has been injecting unwanted keystrokes on a steadily increasing basis over the past week. It started with a strange little bug where the "shift" key wouldn't work with the letter "p". It worked with every other key, but not "p". Then, search fields in various programs began filling up with multiple "3" characters, causing them to be virtually unusable. Then scrolling problems emerged, and finally I realized that if the keyboard was adding keystrokes where they weren't wanted, then this is likely what was causing the "option" key to go unrecognized when rebooting. So I unplugged the keyboard, and everything is back to normal. Holding "option" down while rebooting once again calls up the disk option screen, and I'm back to being able to toggle between windows and OSX without any trouble.</p><p></p><p>Gotta take this keyboard back the apple store I guess.</p><p></p><p>J.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jurgen S., post: 756776, member: 61048"] Okay, so it turns out the problem was my new mac keyboard, which has been injecting unwanted keystrokes on a steadily increasing basis over the past week. It started with a strange little bug where the "shift" key wouldn't work with the letter "p". It worked with every other key, but not "p". Then, search fields in various programs began filling up with multiple "3" characters, causing them to be virtually unusable. Then scrolling problems emerged, and finally I realized that if the keyboard was adding keystrokes where they weren't wanted, then this is likely what was causing the "option" key to go unrecognized when rebooting. So I unplugged the keyboard, and everything is back to normal. Holding "option" down while rebooting once again calls up the disk option screen, and I'm back to being able to toggle between windows and OSX without any trouble. Gotta take this keyboard back the apple store I guess. J. [/QUOTE]
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