Hands up if you've experienced MBP keyboard and trackpad failures!
I know that there have been a number of cases where people have lost the built in k/b and trackpad. My friend has had it happen twice to two different machines this year! And now it's happened to me! This is the second MBP that I've had in 6 months, the first was sent back within a week when the case warped so badly that it rocked when I typed.
I’ve been having an intermittent problem where the built-in keyboard and trackpad stop working for a short period of time. On Saturday morning I suffered 3 kernel panics in a very short period of time (5 minutes), and all were related to a module with a name along the lines of IOHID (Human Input Device!!!).
I tried to do a clean install of Leopard, hoping that the problem might be software related. I suffered a further KP during the install process however whilst using the keyboard and from then on both the keyboard and trackpad were unresponsive.
So, now I’ve got an appointment at my nearest Genius Bar. (Which I’m going to have to take an afternoon off work to go to..)
But, I’ve noticed something even stranger!
I’ve been using a USB keyboard and mouse to try and make sure that I’ve got Windows friendly copies of all my data and I accidentally started to use the built-in keyboard… It worked!
But then it stopped!
It turns out that both the keyboard and trackpad work if I keep one finger on the trackpad. As soon as I release the trackpad the keyboard stops working fairly quickly, and if I happen to be holding down a key (e.g. changing the volume or brightness) I get a KP!
Curious about people’s woes with swollen batteries on the MacBook Pros, I decided to remove the battery to see if the problem went away… well, something happened… not even the ‘one finger’ trick works when the battery isn’t there! The battery looks fine, but it must be exerting some pressure for it to have an effect.
Oh yeah, I think that this case is starting to warp too…
I know that there have been a number of cases where people have lost the built in k/b and trackpad. My friend has had it happen twice to two different machines this year! And now it's happened to me! This is the second MBP that I've had in 6 months, the first was sent back within a week when the case warped so badly that it rocked when I typed.
I’ve been having an intermittent problem where the built-in keyboard and trackpad stop working for a short period of time. On Saturday morning I suffered 3 kernel panics in a very short period of time (5 minutes), and all were related to a module with a name along the lines of IOHID (Human Input Device!!!).
I tried to do a clean install of Leopard, hoping that the problem might be software related. I suffered a further KP during the install process however whilst using the keyboard and from then on both the keyboard and trackpad were unresponsive.
So, now I’ve got an appointment at my nearest Genius Bar. (Which I’m going to have to take an afternoon off work to go to..)
But, I’ve noticed something even stranger!
I’ve been using a USB keyboard and mouse to try and make sure that I’ve got Windows friendly copies of all my data and I accidentally started to use the built-in keyboard… It worked!
But then it stopped!
It turns out that both the keyboard and trackpad work if I keep one finger on the trackpad. As soon as I release the trackpad the keyboard stops working fairly quickly, and if I happen to be holding down a key (e.g. changing the volume or brightness) I get a KP!
Curious about people’s woes with swollen batteries on the MacBook Pros, I decided to remove the battery to see if the problem went away… well, something happened… not even the ‘one finger’ trick works when the battery isn’t there! The battery looks fine, but it must be exerting some pressure for it to have an effect.
Oh yeah, I think that this case is starting to warp too…
? I didnt put it there..)