5920 touchpad problem

my 5920 touchpad does not work and I have tried all that I can think of to get it working again. I have read through the posts on this forum without success.

Every time I try to install the drivers for the touchpad the installation fails and I cannot find out why.

I am considering resetting the computer to its original condition via the recovery partition, however will this work? also I have upgraded to Windows 7 and have a fair bit of additional software loaded, and I do not wish to lose this.

If I purchase a new hard disk and do an install of W7 from scratch, will this get the touchpad working?

Any help would be appreciated

 

same here on win 7 x64. driver install failed every single time so i said screw it and used it with out drivers eventually i just got a usb mouse cause the touch pad sucks.

 

Fn+F7?

10 char

 

well the drivers are for thing like scrolling you might even see some arrows on some touch pads but, it's so you can scroll down or up with your fingers on one side of the touch pad witch can't be done with out a driver. i just fn-f7 and use my usb mouse.

 

FN-f7 shows green text on screen, touchpad enabled/touchpad disabled, but the touchpad still does not work.

Have managed to load the latest drivers for synaptics touchpad (version 15 for Windows 7) ut still no joy.

 

I've seen that behavior with Aspire 6920G- for some reasons more recent drivers wouldn't work.
Try older drivers- in fact try Vista driver for 6920G just for the sake of it.

 

I'll give it a go but I have tried earlier versions

 

Tried all the drivers I can find, and still the same, nothing

 

well, i know i'm getting a wireless logitech. you might see also do some shopping for a nice wireless mouse too.

 

I am using a microsoft wireless mouse, and it works fine, but I would like to get the touchpad working. It was working until I upgraded to windows 7

 

wait, what? it still work but, you should be missing the scroll zones. if it's not working maybe it's failed physically.