Mouse freezing, computer having trouble turning on...

[jnaz112]

Hey everybody, new to the forums here.

I am working with a macbook pro, 13 inch.

So i do not have an external mouse, i use the trackpad. Recently, it tends to freeze on occasion. If I leave it alone for a minute or so, it will unfreeze. Also, if I apply some force where the click button is, that seems to speed up the unfreezing process. When my trackpad freezes, the whole keyboard is frozen, Caps Lock won't work, control+apple+escape doesn't work, the only button that works is the power button if I feel I need to emergency shut down the computer.

Also, When I turn my computer off at night for the past two nights, I take out the power source. When I go to turn it on again, it won't turn on? The first day I freaked out, thought I would have to bring it in, but like 10 minutes later it turned on. Same happened this morning.

ALSO, I more and more frequently am getting that signal that comes up in a couple different languages that tells me my computer froze and I must hold down the power button to power off my computer and turn it on again?

I have never had a problem with this computer! (purchased at the end of 2006), I have diskwarrior, which I used very recently, and it is of course less than one percent that needs to be fixed.

Are these all related? Do I have a virus or something? What is happening to my mac?!

Thanks all in advance for the help!

~ Naz

 

[techound1]

Sounds like you have a loose or otherwise bad trackpad cable. The kb cable travels in the same location (depending on the model, they come together at some point) so it sounds like that's problem #1.

The multilingual message is called a kernel panic. Have a search on the forums to see what that means for you.

Have you recently upgraded your RAM?

 

[jnaz112]

how do i do a search to see why i keep having a kernel panic?

I haven't touched my ram in a long time....in 2008, i bought 2 gigs of ram and replaced my 512 that the computer came with with the 2 gigs.