Trackpad acting odd.  Insensitive to touch and top with 1/3 doesn't work.

HI, my Macbook Air is just by its care of apple for 3 years and the trackpad has starting acting weird.

It is very sensitive to the touch and the top of page 1/3 in particular is almost dead, unless you rub hard.  He gets very nervous to use, and it has now got to the point, it is unusable.

Another side effect, it seems that the keyboard is blocked sort of as if SHIFT CAPS LOCK is activated when the trackpad is odd.

If I connect a magical mouse and disable the trackpad, and then it works fine and no problems with the keyboard.

So my thought was the trackpad is defective.  I bought a new replacement apple trackpad and replaced it thinking that would solve the problem, but it's exactly the same way - so it doesn't seem like the trackpad and would point to something between the trackpad signal and I think that... the card mother maybe?

Any ideas?

Thank you

Hi carpediembill,

I understand that your MacBook Air trackpad behaves erratically. Fortunately, we have an article (link below) which details what to do in such a situation.

If your pointer is nervous when you use a trackpad, Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad
https://support.Apple.com/en-us/HT203171

See you soon!

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