MacBook Pro: Weirdness...

[The Boosh!]

Hello!

When ever I press the up button on my macbook keyboard it brings up Expose :S

IE press F9 on your keyboard. It does that when i press up.

:S It never used to do it? Any advice?

 

[Tom]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE UP BUTTON!

Fucked up keyboard shortcuts?

Check system settings

 

[The Boosh!]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE UP BUTTON!

Restored all keyboard shotcuts to default and it still does it?

Better book in at the genuis bar

 

[Tom]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE UP BUTTON!

Fix permissions in Disk Utility and restart

Check language settings and display settings too.

 

[The Boosh!]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE UP BUTTON!

Repair Permissions Tom? Doing that ATM BRB

 

[Tom]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE UP BUTTON!

Yup

 

[Christopher]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE UP BUTTON!

I'd say that's an issue with your keyboard language.

I've seen it do all sorts of madness.

 

[The Boosh!]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE UP BUTTON!

Still no joy on the keyboard front AFAIK as well all of my settings are OK

 

[Christopher]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE UP BUTTON!

Do you use your 'up' button often?

 

[The Boosh!]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE UP BUTTON!

Yeh for reading emails and stuff quickly

 

[Christopher]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE UP BUTTON!

Buy a Magic Mouse.

[YOUTUBE]iptdY_VHSk8[/YOUTUBE]

 

[The Boosh!]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE UP BUTTON!

LOL your such a b**ch. I can do that with my trackerpad any way thanks

 

[The Boosh!]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE UP BUTTON!

UPDATE

Its not just the up button the opposite of this button ] refreshes my browser. and when i press ] it makes a thudding noise oout of the speakers as if to say "no".

Help

 

[Tom]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE UP BUTTON!

PMSL what the f**k have you done

 

[Christopher]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE SOME BUTTONS!

LOL. That's messed up. Genius Bar mate.

I'd think it was a language issue, but you've checked that. Stumped.

 

[The Boosh!]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE SOME BUTTONS!

It also does it when I press the right button. makes a thud noise Apple store jobbie?

 

[Tom]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE SOME BUTTONS!

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

 

[mugglesquop]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE SOME BUTTONS(INC. CAPS LOCK)

virus

 

[The Boosh!]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE SOME BUTTONS(INC. CAPS LOCK)

I hope not!

 

[Christopher]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE SOME BUTTONS(INC. CAPS LOCK)

If it's a virus, you can have my iMac.

 

[sn00p]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE SOME BUTTONS(INC. CAPS LOCK)

Boot into single user mode (command+S when the machine is turned on).

Try the ] and [ keys. If they appear as normal then something is broken in your OS X installation. Archive and reinstall time.

If they behave funny, I'd say you've developed a hardware fault.

Type reboot once you're done to restart the computer.

 

[The Boosh!]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE SOME BUTTONS(INC. CAPS LOCK)

Further help required.

I tried turning my mac off holding the power button for 10 seconds and it was none responsive. Turned off in the normal way and now it won't turn on at all. Power button totally un responsive. Booked into genious bar Saturday

 

[DMS]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE SOME BUTTONS(INC. CAPS LOCK)

Definitely sounds like a hardware fault to me. The Genii should sort it.

 

[Rob]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE SOME BUTTONS(INC. CAPS LOCK)

Yowza, oh how the great have fallen..... I have a pc laptop I can send you?

 

[DB.]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE SOME BUTTONS(INC. CAPS LOCK)

Magic Mouse FTW

 

[The Boosh!]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE SOME BUTTONS(INC. CAPS LOCK)

Gonna try a few things I found on the support site so I can get it on and back it up but defo still taking it in as it shouldn't be doing this. It's never been dropped and is cleaned with care everyweek. Proper pissed off. I hope they sort. It FOC

 

[sn00p]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE SOME BUTTONS(INC. CAPS LOCK)

Gonna try a few things I found on the support site so I can get it on and back it up but defo still taking it in as it shouldn't be doing this. It's never been dropped and is cleaned with care everyweek. Proper pissed off. I hope they sort. It FOC

How old is it? If it's over a year, do you have applecare?

 

[DMS]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE SOME BUTTONS(INC. CAPS LOCK)

If it's under a year they'll fix it FOC.
If it's over a year and you have Applecare they'll fix it FOC.
If it's over a year and you don't have Applecare, they shouldn't fix it FOC, but they have been known to if it's a manufacturing defect etc...

 

[The Boosh!]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE SOME BUTTONS(INC. CAPS LOCK)

Got 3 years apple care so it's all good gonna carry on renewing it too.

 

[The Boosh!]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE SOME BUTTONS(INC. CAPS LOCK)

Any more suggestions guys?

Power button is totally unreaponsive

 

[sn00p]

ISSUE WITH THE SOME BUTTONS(INC. CAPS LOCK)

Any more suggestions guys?

Power button is totally unreaponsive

It's fucked.

You+genius+macbook=solution

 

[Tom]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE SOME BUTTONS(INC. CAPS LOCK)

Pram?

 

[sn00p]

ISSUE WITH THE SOME BUTTONS(INC. CAPS LOCK)

Pram?

Doubt it, sounds like it's suffered from an ever worsening hardware fault.

I'd expect the power button to at least bing if there was any life in it.

 

[The Boosh!]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE SOME BUTTONS(INC. CAPS LOCK)

I have tried everything I can find to fix it on the internet to no avail. I am booked in to the Genius bar tomorrow, so I really hope they either fix it quick or give me another one. I can't really be doing without a laptop for a prolonged period of time. I'm going away in a week too and I'd like to take it with me

 

[DMS]

Re: ISSUE WITH THE SOME BUTTONS(INC. CAPS LOCK)

I don't think the PRAM contains any information relating to the keyboard layout or configuration. It certainly never used to, and the PRAM does less nowadays than it did back in the pre-OSX days.
You could maybe try resetting the SMC instead to see if that helps with the power on issue, but I doubt it as I'm pretty sure your MBP has developed a hardware fault. If your power button doesn't respond, I can't see how you'd be able to do that anyway.

On another note, you're a mod. Can't you edit the thread title so that it makes sense?