I have been having the following problem, I will be working on my MacBook Pro4,1 and for no know reason, the keyboard and trackpad will stop working. I close the lid and the computer goes to sleep. A few moments late I open the lid and all is well again. Although this problem is also fixed with a reboot, it is getting irritating.
Any thoughts on a fix?
After I had installed Snow leopard, I found the key "caps lock" sometimes just shines. And I often met with the stuck key phenomenon several times a day like inputing "a" but given "aaaaaaa..." in the screen. I reinstall the system back to leopard 10.5.2, and find again the shining "caps lock". I disabled it and everything seems to be ok. But one time I found the keyboard and the trackpad just could not waked up from a sleep. So I determined it's a hardware problem.
I used the leopard disc 1 to check the hardware status, it said OK, nothing wrong...
So I have come back to Snow leopard again, and have disabled the key "caps lock". But sometimes it just wakes up by itself and shines with the green light...
So now the only thing I want to know is: If I change my internal keyboard costing 400$(warranty expired ), does apple give it any warranty? I don't want to pay for another keyboard having stuck keys... 😟
I took my Macbook Pro to the local Apple Authorised Service Provide and they said they could replace the keyboard/trackpad unit as the issue is with the ribbon cable under the battery.
I've nearly the same Problem with my MacBook Pro 4.1 (Early 2008). My Problem is, that my Trackpad stops to make simple clicks. I have to use the normal button to click then. All other functionality like the 4-finger gestures or scrolling with 2 fingers still works.
I'm able to solve the problem simply by opening System Preferences -> Trackpad and then uncheck the "Klick durch Tippen" (Sorry, I don't know the English UI Text here) box and recheck it. After this procedure Trackpad works normally again until the next
tell application "System Preferences"
set current pane to pane "com.apple.preference.trackpad"
end tell
tell application "System Events"
set the visible of process "System Preferences" to true
if UI elements enabled then
click the checkbox "Klick durch Tippen" of group 1 of window "Trackpad" of application process "System Preferences" of application "System Events"
click the checkbox "Klick durch Tippen" of group 1 of window "Trackpad" of application process "System Preferences" of application "System Events"
end if
end tell
tell application "System Preferences" to quit
That's it. If you want to use it yourself I think you have to replace the "Klick durch Tippen" trough your Text in the UI.
stophi wrote:
...Getting and Apple Service here can take days/weeks and I'm not looking forward to handing it over!
Goodness gracious, stophi! Which part of Victoria are you in!?? I've always found Apple service centres here in Victoria to be remarkably quick. If you indicate which town or suburb you are in I may be able to suggest an appropriate service centre.
Without a bit more of a description of your problem , though, it is unclear whether this is simply a software problem or something more serious.
Describe the situations in which the problem occurs and what leads up to it. A "non responsive " keyboard and trackpad can mean anything from corrupted directories or an over-full HD through to a hardware issue.
Without more information it is impossible to tell which.
(Edit - I see you have resolved your issue, but if you are having trouble getting timely service in Victoria I'd simply suggest you try one of the many, many other AASPs in this state).
Hi johnrano, cur8or, neu242, martinhmony, jsargent, direwolf, bedelman, tnine, jhfkgjsahgf , NoValidTitle, Jacob, longhong , logIII, moia, Shorty, and the rest.
When someone says that their keyboard or trackpad don't work it simply means that something is up with their computer or its software. It tells us next to nothing about the likely basis of the problem.
It is like telling a doctor that you are sneezing and next to nothing more. You may be suffering from anything from hayfever to the plague. There are many, many, different possible reasons why a computer may not respond to input devices. Looking at your various posts it is very clear that the causes of your various problems are NOT the same.
You would all be far better off posting new threads individually if you want to try and resolve the issues concerned. Almost none of your posts look as if they are related in any way to the issue experienced by the original poster in this thread.
Yes, a couple of you are obviously having issues with fusion ware, but there is no indication at all that this was in any way related to the original poster's issue.
Adding "me too" posts on the basis of very vague similarities to the original simply leads to confusion and makes it much harder to resolve your individual issues. If you really want them dealt with then start new threads providing as much information as you can about your own particular problems, and your own particular hardware and software combination.
Simply "tagging on" in the manner you all have here gets no one anywhere. Think about the specific circumstances of your own particular problem, provide real information, eschew the temptation to imagine that oranges are apples because they are both fruit, and you are likely to find that people here are far more likely to be able to help you resolve your issues, if that is genuinely your purpose in posting here.
I want to post a "me, too" to this discussion in hopes that Apple will realize that it is a problem and come up with a solution. The problem is so intermittent that I couldn't see how to demonstrate it to a repairman. My experience is that it started with the installation of Snow Leopard and is related to "Spaces" somehow.
