Trackpad, intermitently reseting.

[lazerbrains]

I have a 13 inch MacBook Pro, and it has just recently started acting funny with the trackpad. It sometimes, works, and sometimes doesn't . And now matter what I set up in the System Preferences under "TrackPad", if I restart the computer the reset to default settings and I have to start all over again, and enable "Tap to Click" and "Secondary click".

Would this be a hardware or software issue, and how can I test it?

 

[devito19]

try connecting your trackpad with a different mac and vice versa mate
if it is still not working, it might be a hardware issue

 

[lazerbrains]

try connecting your trackpad with a different mac and vice versa mate
if it is still not working, it might be a hardware issue

I forgot to mention, it is the built in Trackpad, not an external. So that is impossible for me to try. Thanks for the tip though.

 

[frank.deale]

My trackpad also would lose its "tap to click function," forcing me to reset it. However, for some reason, it stopped when I started logging out before putting the computer to sleep.