The slightly unresponsive keyboard

Hey!

My letter "e" on my old MacBook Pro end 2011 15' a did a little from time to time. In other words, sometimes I need to do a little more pressure to make it work.

It's pretty boring when I write. The key answer better after I write a little and used, but still annoying. And also sometimes becomes a bit insensitive again after some time.

I asked my local (400 km; I live in Finland) bear all the cost of the full keyboard change official, who I don't know he won't be cheap.

Do you guys know any other solution for this problem? I mean... I guess the key under the jump of silicone connector became a bit rusty or something similar. There have for a lot of sense to me disassemble the entire computer and all of the keyboard when I just change can simply detach the key.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Greetings lpuerto,

Thank you for using communities Support from Apple!

I understand that one of the keys on your keyboard is not responding as expected. To continue troubleshooting, before you consider a repair, I suggest you work during the steps in the following article.

Your keyboard has one or more of the keys that are not

Use the keyboard Viewer to check if the keys on the keyboard respond correctly when they are pressed.

  1. Choose System Preferences from the Apple menu, and then select language & text.
  2. Select Input Sources.
  3. Check characters and keyboard Viewer.
  4. Activate the input source for the keyboard layout that you test by selecting the checkbox next to it.
  5. Make sure that "Show the menu in the menu bar" is enabled.
  6. Choose Show Keyboard Viewer in the menu in the menu bar.
  7. The viewer of keyboard showing the keyboard layout is displayed on your screen.
  8. Tap the key on the keyboard that is not answer and see if the corresponding key highlights on the keyboard Viewer. If so, this key works fine.

Notes:

  • If mouse keys in the universal system preferences pane is activated, a lot of keys on the keyboard do respond as expected.
  • If the problem persists, try to run to the top of your Mac in single user mode see if a software problem is causing the problem.

If your Apple wireless mouse, keyboard or trackpad doesn't work as expected - Apple Support

Have a great day!

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