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Hi All,
I am a switcher by means of a project... So some history first:
I inherited my first Mac; a Macbook Air 4GB RAM. Mid-2012 A1466. It was very poorly, with dead battery and the common graphics problem where it would boot up then it would crash / hang with a weird pattern over the screen. I decided to take this little project on with the intent to learn about Macs, having come from a PC background.
I started by buying a 2nd-hand replacement logic board and upgraded to the 8GB model. I switched over the SSD and the wireless and all connectors etc and she worked! I was very pleased. Next I replaced the battery with a new 3rd-party one and that worked too. She could now hold a charge.
I started to explore the Mac OS, enjoyed it, learning the system differences from PCs etc. I started using it as my main device. It was at this point I noticed a bit of an intermittent issue. The 'L' key would sometimes not type... if the caps lock was on, the L key sometimes switched the caps off and sometimes the l key would delay and output to the screen seconds later. Sometimes, and this is the worst one, the keyboard and TrackPad would just stop working. I thought at first it was the whole OS locking up but eliminated that by using a USB mouse and keyboard, which worked fine.
So I decided to update the OS to see if that would solve the problem... it's now on Catalina (nice!)... but the problem remained. I figured it must be a faulty keyboard, so I replaced it with a brand new one. Nope. The problem remained.
Ok, so I thought, maybe I should check the ribbon cables upon investigating, when I lifted the plastic 'lock' it looked like there was a little bit of corrosion on the wire, so I cleaned that up and it didn't look too bad. The ribbon cables looked ok too. Problem still present, but now the keyboard and track pad do not work AT ALL.
So I just ordered a replacement TrackPad, changed it... no different. I'm thinking... I am really new to this so, here I am! I'm guessing there's all sorts of tips / tricks I don't know about. I didn't fancy reading lots of conflicting ideas all over the Internet, so I came straight here.
What am I missing please? I love using the Mac, but I don't want the inconvenience of an external k/b & mouse all the time.
So I am open to suggestions, no matter how obvious, as I said, I'm new and don't know much.
Thanks in advance.
Sean
I am a switcher by means of a project... So some history first:
I inherited my first Mac; a Macbook Air 4GB RAM. Mid-2012 A1466. It was very poorly, with dead battery and the common graphics problem where it would boot up then it would crash / hang with a weird pattern over the screen. I decided to take this little project on with the intent to learn about Macs, having come from a PC background.
I started by buying a 2nd-hand replacement logic board and upgraded to the 8GB model. I switched over the SSD and the wireless and all connectors etc and she worked! I was very pleased. Next I replaced the battery with a new 3rd-party one and that worked too. She could now hold a charge.
I started to explore the Mac OS, enjoyed it, learning the system differences from PCs etc. I started using it as my main device. It was at this point I noticed a bit of an intermittent issue. The 'L' key would sometimes not type... if the caps lock was on, the L key sometimes switched the caps off and sometimes the l key would delay and output to the screen seconds later. Sometimes, and this is the worst one, the keyboard and TrackPad would just stop working. I thought at first it was the whole OS locking up but eliminated that by using a USB mouse and keyboard, which worked fine.
So I decided to update the OS to see if that would solve the problem... it's now on Catalina (nice!)... but the problem remained. I figured it must be a faulty keyboard, so I replaced it with a brand new one. Nope. The problem remained.
Ok, so I thought, maybe I should check the ribbon cables upon investigating, when I lifted the plastic 'lock' it looked like there was a little bit of corrosion on the wire, so I cleaned that up and it didn't look too bad. The ribbon cables looked ok too. Problem still present, but now the keyboard and track pad do not work AT ALL.
So I just ordered a replacement TrackPad, changed it... no different. I'm thinking... I am really new to this so, here I am! I'm guessing there's all sorts of tips / tricks I don't know about. I didn't fancy reading lots of conflicting ideas all over the Internet, so I came straight here.
What am I missing please? I love using the Mac, but I don't want the inconvenience of an external k/b & mouse all the time.
So I am open to suggestions, no matter how obvious, as I said, I'm new and don't know much.
Thanks in advance.
Sean