I suggest, however, before just hard shutting off your MacBook (by holding down the Power button for five seconds), you connect an external keyboard & mouse and shutdown the computer from within MacOS. Then turn back on like normal.Īnyway, below are directions on how to reset PRAM. Hold all four for 3 seconds, release (power light might change colour for a second). Keys to reset SMC (make sure MacBook is powered off and power adapter is plugged in). I shall try that if i run into issues again.
Also in my research i saw that PRAM fixed folks’ issues for only a temporary time, at which point they suggested resetting the SMC (System Management Controller). I’m not too sure which actually fixed it, attempting the Boot Menu or reseting the PRAM, but i’m currently typing this on my MacBook as i normally would. Dawning on me trackpad worked i tried to use my laptop keyboard and that worked, too! I didn’t notice at first that i was using the trackpad to navigate, but i typed with my bluetooth keyboard. I did that, was prompted to connect to a WiFi network and to choose my hard drive. But nothing concrete until i received a reply back from my friend who’s an Apple Genius Technician: he said first thing to do was to see if i could get into the Boot Menu after powering on (holding the Option key at boot), and then then immediately try reseting the PRAM (i put the instructions below on how to do so if you want to skip ahead).īeing my backwards-brain self at times, i did the PRAM reset first (did it until there were three chimes), attempted to boot normally, but still couldn’t login. I then did some scouring of message boards and got a few different scenarios and things to try from other freaked out customers. From my past career as a computer and printer technician (man, i can’t believe that was 5.5 years ago!), it was a good sign. So i knew that not everything was broken. My next step was to hold the power button down for a few seconds. Crapht, was my first thought, i can’t afford to get replacement parts or to purchase a new MacBook right now.
No caps lock light, no input registering from any of the keys, and the trackpad wasn’t responsive. Cheers.Īfter returning from this past weekend’s WordCamp ATL 2018 - #WCATL - i opened up my MacBook and went to login, but nothing doing. At the end of this post i have appended what i did to fix the keyboard after i had exhausted the steps originally outlined in this post. A drastic difference from the $400-500 estimate from the Mac Store. Update: On November 2, 2018, using the DIY method, i successfully repaired the broken hardware of my MacBook Pro for $23.98 + tax.
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