Apple Pro Keyboard & troubleshooting

[wardsenatorfe92]

I pulled my white Apple Pro keyboard out of storage (the later square one, not the early white one) today. Everything was working fine until I was talking to someone online and all of a sudden the space bar stopped working. Does anyone know anything about troubleshooting these keyboards? I popped the space bar off and nothing was stuck, I even tried putting another key cap on instead of the space bar and the sensor is not recognizing the space key.

I know it's the keyboard because I tried it out with another Mac and it showed the same symptoms.

Does anyone know about taking these things apart or anything I could do to fix this problem? It's a really nice keyboard and I hate to junk it, but the space bar is kinda an important key.

Thanks in advance.

 

[markyb86]

Its really annoying to open all the way up, but if you can get down to the brass colored contacts, rub them with a piece of white printer paper, and then clean them up with alcohol.

 

[wardsenatorfe92]

I will have to try that! I'm sure it's tricky but it can't be too much harder than replacing a hard drive in an iBook... (which I've done too many times to count). What I am thinking is when I had the keyboard in storage for the past few days (had to change up my setup a little), I think I wrapped the cord up to where it held the spacebar down unintentionally. I never imagined the keyboard would be that fragile, but they are starting to get a little old (the one in question here has June 2004 written on the bottom from when the original owner got it... so I'm sure it's seen it's fair share of usage).

 

[markyb86]

I have that same keyboard and had it wrapped and in a drawer of other perhipherals for awhile and most of the number pad (i thought) had failed. after a good cleaning it worked as good as it ever did when I had it. Now I cant remember but I think the "actual keyboard" is a thin flimsy membrane material with just the pad under each key exposed, so if you wanted you could do the whole thing at once. be careful not to loose the rubber feet though