Hugo Heriz-Smith » Laptop http://www.heriz-smith.com Solutions and services for business and home computers Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:29:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Freezing Keyboard on Mac Book Pro http://www.heriz-smith.com/freezing-keyboard-on-mac-book-pro/ http://www.heriz-smith.com/freezing-keyboard-on-mac-book-pro/#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:48:09 +0000 hugo http://www.heriz-smith.com/freezing-keyboard-on-mac-book-pro/ Shortly after getting the new laptop, which came with 10.4 installed, I did an erase and install of 10.5. Shortly after doing this, I noticed the keyboard started freezing, while the touchpad and button worked just fine. “Oh no”, I thought, this is where I come to regret getting the refurb. But a little digging around found an article at MacFixIt.com. One of the posters suggested the following command:

sudo update_prebinding -force -root /

If you have this issue, copy and paste this into a Terminal window and hit return. Wait for the command to complete (you’ll get a prompt back) and reboot. This fixed the problem for me. I see the same issue is mentioned at AppleInsider but they say that no fix has been found. Perhaps I was lucky.

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