This is an occasional problem. I have early 2011 Macbook Pro (8,1) with Yosemite. I have seen suggestions to close the lid for a short time to "reset.". Sometimes this works, other times areas of the screen are black and slowly return to color. but often I must restart. I have tried an external mouse, but no luck. And there are no bluetooth devices nearby.
Hello oconnor4d,
If I understand correctly you are occasionally unable to select text or have anything click on screen with your mouse pointer but it is otherwise moving around as normal. There are 3 things I would do for this issue, and test after each.
First reset the PRAM on your computer:
OS X Yosemite: Reset your computer’s PRAM
If the issue persists, then next boot to Safe Mode which will flush some caches and verify the startup disk and test the issue again:
OS X Yosemite: Start up in safe mode
And lastly you can reset the SMC on your computer which might help if this keeps happening:
Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac
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I had reset the SMC and the problem has not re-occurred... yet. I will follow your other advice as well. Thanks for the help.
You are quite welcome!
cursor moves, but won't select or click
