New Vostro 1500 great but

Hi,

I have a new Vostro 1500 and have installed XP Pro and Vista 64 as a dual boot, normally booting into Vista Business 64 bit.
It's really good. Good keyboard, great screen and fast BUT two problems which I would really like some help with ! I have searched thread and can't see any other mention - but sorry if there is !

1) I have two 'Base System Devices' in device manager (both OS's) and can't get drivers for them - not even sure what they are

2) No driver for the touchpad, until I used the one suggested by GOBO in another thread. Even with that installed the cursor leaps around randomly. If I type fast windows close all by them selves ! Think it must be somthing to do with the touchpad - it is very annoying. I type and then things vanish as the cursor jumps away and text gets randomly highlighted, in a variety of applications (typing this in Firefox and it did it, in Outlook and Word 2007).

Any help great appreciated.

Thanks

 

Did you try the Intel chipset driver and the driver for the Media card reader?

 

with the touch pad are you sure you arent touching it with your wrists when you are typing. if this is the case, you can disable the touch pad while you type. its in the settings for it.

 

Sorry I should have said. I have all the drivers installed that I could find, including the Intel chipset drivers, video drivers from Laptop2go (which are a very sweet way of getting Vista 64 support) and everything else. It all works fine apart from these two things.

How do I turn the touchpad off ? Can't seem to see it. I am using the driver GOBO made available, makes the touchpad an ALPS touchpad. Wasn't sure if it was ALPS or Synaptics, so used this one (did a System Restore Point 1st !)