Intel Mac :: Why Does Mouse Randomly Skip Or Freeze
Mar 10, 2012Why does my mouse randomly skip or freeze?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
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Intel Mac :: Magic Mouse : It Just Randomly Freezes, Cutting Off All Ability To Navigate The Desktop
Mar 22, 2012It just randomly freezes, cutting off all ability to navigate the desktop.Re-booting the system resolves the problem, but leaves me with a lot of lost work.SOMETIMES taking out and putting back in the batteries resolves the problems, but not often.The kayboard continues to work, so it doesn't seem to be a bluetooth issue.
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iMac (27-inch Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
MacBook :: Ticking And Freeze Randomly?
Oct 1, 2009randomly for the first im ever, my brother was on my macbook and all of a sudden the computer froze and it had a ticking noise coming from the inside. it honestly sounded like a ticking time bomb i shut the lid but it didnt go to sleep the screen stayed lit so i shut it down with the button and started it back up.
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Sep 6, 2014my mouse and keyboard freeze periodically on my macbook pro. It happens a couple times a day doing things like browsing the web or playing games.
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MacBook Pro :: Bluetooth Mighty Mouse And Apple Keyboard Just Freeze?
Jul 17, 2009My macbook pro has the most annoying problem. Sometimes, in a totally random fashion, my bluetooth mighty mouse and apple keyboard just freeze. Bluetooth shows them as connected but they do not respond. Sometimes redoing the ?set up a Bluetooth device? option works but other times the computer refuses to see the devices and only a restart, followed by the setup assistant will fix the problem. Am I the only one with this problem or is it common? Hardware or software? Any fixes?
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MacBook Pro :: Select Applications (Terminal / Preferences) Freeze On Mouse Hover
Aug 20, 2014When I hover my mouse over an application (such as Terminal) it freezes with the message 'process Termainl [pid] caught causing excessive wakeups...'
Some applications (such as Google Chrome) work fine. Others (iTerm, Terminal, Hipchat) are susceptible. If the application exhibits the behaviour - without fail, simply hovering the mouse over the application window, without clicking or giving it explicit focus, will cause it to freeze.
Prior to this, my battery had swollen and the suspicion was that it was pressing against the trackpad resulting in a constant stream of interrupts. I took the battery out and am typing this without the battery - the issue persists.
I also tried disconnecting the trackpad. Same issue, even when using an external mouse to navigate.
MacBook Pro :: Mouse Moves Randomly By Itself?
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OS X :: Mighty Mouse Randomly Stops Clicking?
Jun 25, 2008it just stops clicking. It "moves" fine (moves the cursor around), the red light is on, everything seems to be working. I even unplug it and plug it back in. No clicking. Finally, I have to restart the computer (by holding down the power button on the back of the iMac) and then it will work again.
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
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The thing is that recently at random times throughout my day when I'm, using my Mac...my finger will be on the glass trackpad and i'll be doing something like say surfing the web or using w/e application...Well, randomly the mouse on the screen will disappear from its current location, say for example on Firefox's toolbar, immediately to the bottom of the screen. It's never the top of the screen, or the sides since it normally just causes the dock to rise up...
I'm really concerned to see what's going on here. I rarely had this problem with my old Whitebook, though admittedely did happen a few times.
Perhaps a water spill/damage? Though consider to have been very careful with my new Mac. I'm sure the glass trackpad on these new Macbook Pro's has water damage sensors right? Anyway I can see it/observe it myself.
I used to love taking apart my old whitebook but these new MBP's seem impossible; that or i'm just too scared since I do love how the machine was built.
MacBook Pro :: Bluetooth Randomly Stops Working / Magic Mouse Does Not Respond
Jun 26, 2014bluetooth on my 2013 MBP. I have a magic mouse and it randomly stops responding. At first I thought it was a problem with the mouse itself. I changed the batteries,To solve the problem and to get the mouse to work again, I have to actually restart my computer.
Then I realized that when my magic mouse acts up, if I open the Bluetooth preferences, in the spot where the name of my computer should be is this weird message that says "do not localize, name not available" So I've finally realized that the problems I'm having aren't with the mouse but actually the Bluetooth in the computer, either it's a hardware issue with the Bluetooth hardware or the driver is defective. Again, when I restart, I'm able to use my magic mouse again. And when Bluetooth is acting up, when I do try to open Bluetooth preferences, I get the beach ball and everything starts to hang.
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MacBook :: Mouse Pad Randomly Selects Items Eg. Links, Text, Pictures And Drags, Opens Or Deletes Them?
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MacBook
Intel Mac :: Screen Freeze After Last Update
Mar 13, 2012On my late 2011 imac 21.5" I have been getting a consistent problem since the last OS update. After the screensaver comes on, or, if left to sleep by it's own devices, either my screensaver freezes or the gray screen won't recover from sleep. If I move the cursor with the trackpad it clears the gray screen where the cursor moves around. I can usually clear enough that I can hit the login button and log in after pushing the power button. This is a new phenomenon since the latest OS update.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), Late 2011 21.5"
Intel Mac :: USB Drive Causes Boot Freeze
Mar 31, 2012I added a new 3T external USB drive and my Mac freezes on bootup if the drive is on.
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Intel Mac :: Firefox Causes Other Applications And OS To Freeze
May 15, 2012I run into a problem from time to time where Firefox 12 will freeze and then all other programs with becom unresponsive and OS will freeze and I'll need to hard restart the computer.
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Intel Mac :: Applications Freeze When Left Idle?
Feb 27, 2012Since the recent software update (early Feb I believe) my Mac has begun to freeze, first finder, then safari/chrome, followed by all other applications.
I have set up Activity Monitor to track what is causing the issue, however when the computer freezes I cannot open Activity Monitor (obviously).
I have contacted Apple Care with the hope that they could provide some assistance, we deleted all startup files (and the other startup related files in library), ran disk utility and repaired permissions.
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.3), 16g ram, 2tb harddrive.
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Mar 21, 2012I did a suggested software download/update a few days ago.
Now I am experiencing application freezes - mouse functions do not work, system does not acknowledge commands, etc.
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Intel Mac :: Why Does It Often Freeze After Turning On From Sleep Mode
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Intel Mac :: External Hard Drives Causing To Freeze
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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May 26, 2012What cause my imac to freeze? running sno leopard, hard drive changed 6 months ago, happens on safari and iphoto(11)
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iMac (20-inch Late 2006), Mac OS X (10.6.8), hard drive replaced 6 months ago.
Intel Mac :: 27" Gaming On Windows 7 Overheating And Graphic Freeze?
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IMac 27" 3,4 Ghz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 RAM
1 TB HD
AMD Radeon HD 6970M 2048 MB graphics
Windows 7 (full updated)
OSX Lion (full updated)
My earlier iMac from 2010 gets so hot that the motherboard and graphic card burned off, and apple gave me a new iMac.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 8 GB Ram
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Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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