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Macbook problems: keyboard shuts off & corosion on RAM

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Antrieb

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Dec 25, 2007
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Just got this macbook about a month ago.

1. When I open it up, sometimes the keyboard won't work. That is, no letters, numbers, or any other keys work. I have to wait usually about 2 minutes and they start working again. Is this normal? Sometimes it's not just when I open the laptop up, it will happen randomly.

2. I upgraded the RAM last week and when I took the old RAM out, there was some white corrosion on the metal contact points. Whats this about? I've never spilled anything on the machine and it hasn't seen a moist environment (except for when it rained and it was in my backpack in a separate pouch).

Help!? Does my machine have problems or is this normal?

Thanks in advance.
 
Antrieb said:
Just got this macbook about a month ago.

1. When I open it up, sometimes the keyboard won't work. That is, no letters, numbers, or any other keys work. I have to wait usually about 2 minutes and they start working again. Is this normal? Sometimes it's not just when I open the laptop up, it will happen randomly.

2. I upgraded the RAM last week and when I took the old RAM out, there was some white corrosion on the metal contact points. Whats this about? I've never spilled anything on the machine and it hasn't seen a moist environment (except for when it rained and it was in my backpack in a separate pouch).

Help!? Does my machine have problems or is this normal?

Thanks in advance.
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For the keyboard shutting off... did you download the keyboard fix for Leopard? Go to software update and see if it's there. If you already did the update, then theres probably something wrong with the keyboard
 
acfusion29 said:
For the keyboard shutting off... did you download the keyboard fix for Leopard? Go to software update and see if it's there. If you already did the update, then theres probably something wrong with the keyboard
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Thanks, how might I go about doing this?
 
The best thing to do would be to take it to an Apple shop / seller and have someone have a peek.
 
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