10.6.3 mouse cursor freezing

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10.6.3 mouse cursor freezing

hey

just wondering if anyone is having any issues wince upgrading to 10.6.3.

i am having an issue where my mouse cursor freezes, and i lose mouse control altogther. seems to ae most when i am using firefox.

i have the last old style 15inch macbook pro just before the unibody update. and has a multi touchtrack pad.

it's so ******* annoying losing a cursor randomly.

mbp last before unibody, Mac OS X (10.6.3)

Posted on Mar 31, 2010 8:40 PM

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Answer 1

Apr 1, 2010 11:16 PM in response to justletmepickoneffs

Hi have the exact same problem. With the exact same model.

I also have a problem with typing.

Going into sleep mode and turning it up again will often resolve the problem. I don't like to do that everytime it happens..

*****

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Answer 2

Apr 1, 2010 11:20 PM in response to justletmepickoneffs

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=885964

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Answer 3

Apr 2, 2010 5:56 AM in response to justletmepickoneffs

My cursor is also freezing, and this is a new issue after installing 10.6.3. I can recover only after holding restart button. Operates normally for a short while, then freezes while typing.

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Answer 4

Apr 3, 2010 3:33 AM in response to justletmepickoneffs

The same here after updating to 10.6.3

Mouse cursor freezes for about 5 sec every 1 - 2 hours. No matter what kind of software I am using.

Here is similar thread

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2382651&start=0&tstart=0

Hope Apple will do something with this.. It is quite annoying.

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Answer 5

Apr 6, 2010 10:08 PM in response to justletmepickoneffs

i decided to run onyx to clear out all the old crap. seemed that my hard disc needed repairing that involved booting from my osx disk. there was also lots of broken permissions. i haven't had a frozen mouse cursor in the last couple of hours. will see what happens

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Answer 6

Apr 11, 2010 6:53 PM in response to justletmepickoneffs

i rolled back to my lastest 10.6.2 update that i took just before i tried 10.6.3

that week someone said i should not try it, as i always seem to have weird issues with updates. so i made certain i had a time machine version at the time i updated.

working fine again. keyboard does not fell like marshmallow, and the mouse cursor doesn't stick.

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Answer 7

Apr 11, 2010 6:54 PM in response to justletmepickoneffs

i rolled back to my lastest 10.6.2 update that i took just before i tried 10.6.3

that week someone said i should not try it, as i always seem to have weird issues with updates. so i made certain i had a time machine version at the time i updated.

working fine again. keyboard does not fell like marshmallow, and the mouse cursor doesn't stick.

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Answer 8

msmo1

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Apr 24, 2010 10:32 AM in response to justletmepickoneffs

I have been having this problem since the update. I have repaired permissions, but that has not fixed the problem. I saw the suggestion to reset PRAM on restarting, and I will try that next time. Are others still having this problem? (I noticed no recent posts.)

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Answer 9

msmo1

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Apr 25, 2010 4:46 PM in response to msmo1

There is a post on this issue on the MacBook Pro board:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2386414&tstart=15

One poster solved the freezing problem by using the OSX 6.3.1.1 update of April 12th:

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1017

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Answer 10

May 17, 2010 10:02 PM in response to justletmepickoneffs

My problem is similar but slightly more messed up; not only does my mouse go out, but so does the keyboard. Worse, the entire screen freezes--the clock never changes as the minutes go by. The remedy is a hard reset. It's happened twice today, 4 times in the past 15 days.

Really starting to get sick of this, considering this is a CLEAN install of Snow Leopard I just performed about a month and a half ago. Overall, I'm really disappointed with Snow Leopard. My wife's Mac Mini (a Snow Leopard upgrade, not clean install) reboots randomly. Twice in the past 15 days alone.

Further, there's no error message upon reboot that says "oh hey, looks like you were forced to restart... here's some diagnostics to send to Apple." Nothing.

Not a happy customer.

Message was edited by: Michael Paul

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Answer 11

rohanww

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Jun 10, 2010 7:45 AM in response to Michael Paul

i have the same problem on my new mbpro. sometimes it even freezes on the login screen! I had to hard reboot 4 times and was about to give up till it started working again just now. pretty sure its a software problem in the 10.3.3 cos the mouse works fine when i boot from disk utility and repair permissions. only the problem keeps reoccuring
what is going on apple!!!!

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