You may find that one doesn't 'feel' the same. Be sure to try that with both shift keys. Multiple, hard taps on the shift key may free it. One of your two shift keys is stuck (probably) If you hold the shift key, then the password will always be incorrect (unless that's how you normally type your password.Īnd, a shift-click does not give you the same result as a normal click.Īnd - you don't have the choice to NOT hold the shift - because - it may be sticking, or just failed. A stuck shift key will ALWAYS boot to Safe Boot. You enter Safe Boot mode by holding the shift key. No wonder the Safe Boot kept rejecting the password since the lowercase character cannot be activated. When i restart it, it will still behaving as in (1), unless i did as in (2). And software like Photo is not working properly. For example in Safari, every time a hyperlink is clicked it will go to the reading list, and my Mac will always produce the uppercase letter even though the caps lock is not activated. However, I realized it ran so slow and behaved strangely. (2) After so many failed attempts to bypass the Safe Boot Menu (which keep rejecting my valid password), I held an OPTION key while restarting it. However, the computer keep rejecting my entry. (1) Out of the blue, it launched Mac OS X Safe Boot when I powered it on yesterday.So, this Safe Boot requested the password, and I remember that password very well since I have never changed it since the last 3-years.

Im using a MacBook Pro which runs on OS X 10.6.8.

Stuck with 10.6.8 software