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    M50vm Touchpad stopped working

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by Moet123, Oct 16, 2008.

  1. Moet123

    Moet123 Notebook Enthusiast

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    My touch pad wont turn on when I tap the MODE section. This happened a couple time before, windows gave an error and it stopped working. But it would work again with a restart. But yesturday the Touchpad's entertainment/shortcut mode stopped working; even when if I restart the computer, turn touchpad on/off manually.The mouse functionality of the touchpad works. Any ideas how to fix this?
     
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    Will1989 Notebook Geek

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    Have you tried reinstalling the touchpad drivers?
     
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    I just installed the Touchpad from the cd..still not working. It's weird I don't know what happened. My brother used my laptop for like 30min and this happened lol ;(
     
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    Okay, try this... Go to Control Panel -> Mouse -> Device Settings (tab) -> Settings

    There are several settings in this area that you can look through and customize. You'll probably want to pay special attention to the "Tap Zones" settings.
     
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    Yeah, I fixed it after my last post. In the settings Tapping was Disabled for some reason. Enabled it and it started working. Thanks for the help.
     
    Moet123, Oct 16, 2008
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    Okay, so I know how to solve this issue, re-installing the drivers. But, this keeps happening like at least once every 2 weeks, Is this a Vista problem or Asus? It's getting ridiculous. Every week im having some random new problem....Right now, when I click on the sound mixer on the toolbar, the toolbar freezs and I can't click anything on it and gives error sound....... :(
     
    Moet123, Nov 5, 2008
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