Trackpad glitch fixed its self? That shouldn't happen.
I'm not the most adept Mac user, so bear with me. I own a Macbook Pro, I bought it brand new in May 2011. I'm running the first OS X Lion. I've never had a problem with it before until last weekend. Basically, I was on my computer and I took a drink of water. Goes down the wrong tube, I coughed, and a little bit of water ended up on the trackpad. About 15 minutes later the trackpad started to act up. The symptoms were:
-Cursor moves on its own. Kinda like someone else is controlling it.
-Desktops change randomly, even if I'm not actually touching the trackpad at the moment.
-The more complex trackpad shortcuts activate on their own.
-All two-, three-, and four-finger shortcuts would not work
So it seemed like obvious water damage. But, one thing I couldn't figure out was that these glitches wouldn't start right away. It would usually take about 5-10 minutes after starting to use the computer before the glitches would start showing up. And they'd come in gradually. First the cursor starts moving on its own a little bit... a few minutes later the cursor is going wild, the desktops are shuffling, yadda yadda yadda. Two days ago that "5-10 minutes after starting" part regressed down to right away.
That happened on Friday, and at that point I knew I was going to have to take my computer to a repair shop, so I turned it off completely and didn't use it for all of Saturday. Today, I turned on the computer just so I could check my e-mail and whatnot, expecting to have to fight through all those pains in the a** glitches all the while...... and nothing has happened. The cursor is a little glitchy, but that's about it. In fact, the more I type the more minor symptoms I'm seeing appear right now. But nothing major... just little glitches that could easily be caused by having all my memory occupied.
Clearly, I'm going to take it to a shop to at least make sure. But ultimately what I'm getting at is.. I want to hear any one's input on what they think the problem might be, because I'm at my wit's end. Is this water damage? Are the trackpad functions slowly coming back because the water is like, I don't know... evaporating? Is there a chance that there's a much bigger problem that I'm going to have to deal with?
Thanks in advance!
No hair dryer ... that focuses heat which is very bad.
No rice ... that lets dust inside the system.
Leave it turned off and unplugged from the wall.
Water can corrode and short-circuit electronics. Until a qualified repair person looks inside, the truth cannot be known. And I at least choose to not guess and mislead you.
As to repair cost, I again choose not to set what is likely an incorrect expectation.
Good luck.
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