Mac Book Pro Mouse unresponsive when I click it.

[Duke]

Tonight I was using my MacBook Pro when the computer began to some what freeze. The loading icon did not appear but all of a sudden i couldnt click on anything. I tried shutting down the computer the the mouse was unresponsive. When I re started the computer the mouse once again would not work. So I shut it down again...turned it on again and the same thing happened. Eventually the mouse began to work if i applied much force to the mouse pad and then started to work normally. After a while once again it stopped working completely. I bought this computer in early August.....any ideas what it could be?

[TooLowBrow]

Tonight I was using my MacBook Pro when the computer began to some what freeze. The loading icon did not appear but all of a sudden i couldnt click on anything. I tried shutting down the computer the the mouse was unresponsive. When I re started the computer the mouse once again would not work. So I shut it down again...turned it on again and the same thing happened. Eventually the mouse began to work if i applied much force to the mouse pad and then started to work normally. After a while once again it stopped working completely. I bought this computer in early August.....any ideas what it could be?

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[boosterp]

This is the touch pad below the keys correct?

Having to use force for the pad to detect movement sounds like a sensitivity issue. It could be you just need to up the sensitivity setting. If that does not work you likely have a hardware issue and will need to have it serviced. Either way this is way to sudden just to be a freak problem.

[KnoxHarrington]

Do the Mac's equivalent of hte "three-finger salute" -- the PRAM reset.

Shut the computer down, and when you start it up, hold down the P, R, Option, and Command keys simultaneously. Keep holding them down until you hear the startup chime a second time.

This loads fresh hardware settings from the processor, and can occasionally fix weird little hardware quirks like this.

[KnoxHarrington]

Something else I thought about: try booting the system off the installation disk. Put in the install disks that came with your Mac (or even a Snow Leopard disk if you've upgraded), and hold down C as you start it up.

See if the trackpad works normally when you're botoed off the disk. If so, it's probably a software issue, and I'd probably go back, backup the vital stuff, then reinstall Mac OS X.

[Tenbatsuzen]

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[Fallon]

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[Melk]

I don't believe your story. Everyone knows that Macs never, ever, ever fail, break or operate contrary to their factory settings.

[biggestmexi]

better not let gvac see this.