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    Dell XPS 15 L501x touchpad issue

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by Dividedsky1976, Jul 15, 2011.

  1. Dividedsky1976

    Dividedsky1976 Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm having an issue with my Dell XPS 15's touchpad. Whenever the computer sleeps or upon rebooting the machine, the touchpad is disabled with the orange light on. I'm constantly having to renable it in the mobility center. Anyone experience this? I tried to download the 'latest' touchpad driver but it's the same drive that came factory installed with the machine.
     
    Dividedsky1976, Jul 15, 2011
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  2. travbjork

    travbjork Notebook Geek

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    Did you try completely uninstalling and reinstalling? Also, are you downloading from Dell's site? You should also go to Synaptics website and download the latest, which will work as well.

    Drivers | Synaptics

    You'll want the 64bit. Hope this helps :)
     
    travbjork, Jul 15, 2011
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  3. SAiLO

    SAiLO Notebook Evangelist

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    There could also be a setting in bios.
     
    SAiLO, Jul 16, 2011
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