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    Synaptics Touchpad Enhancements have stopped responding

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by jahboo, Mar 1, 2008.

  1. jahboo

    jahboo Notebook Enthusiast

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    Anyone had this problem? Basically, it's happening on a regular basis for me. It happened occasionally to begin with and now it seems to happen every day. I'm wondering if it's a hardware issue in fact. I've installed and reinstalled the latest driver but it doesn't help. Running Vista Business too which is pretty much up-to-date.

    Guess I'll be making a call to XPS Support soon but if anyone's had this problem and solved it I'd appreciate hearing from you.

    Cheers,

    jahboo
     
    jahboo, Mar 1, 2008
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    stevey5036 Notebook Evangelist

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    I would just disable it all together.. as it isn't necessary to have on to use the touchpad anyway.
     
    stevey5036, Mar 1, 2008
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    jahboo Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi Steve,

    Sorry, don't follow. Had a look and can't see anywhere to disable the enhancements whatever they are. When they fail, I lose all scrolling functionality on the touch pad and I haven't figured out a way to restart it without rebooting.

    Cheers,

    jahboo
     
    jahboo, Mar 1, 2008
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    jahboo Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,

    Anyone else have any suggestions? I'm beginning to think that it's down to a USB hardware problem. I'm having problems with the trackpad and also the internal HSDPA modem. I've also noticed a bit of flakiness on the graphics side of things. Wondering if it's a motherboard issue?

    Cheers,

    jahboo
     
    jahboo, Mar 3, 2008
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  5. Overseer

    Overseer Newbie

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    Hello,

    I have the same problem with my Acer notebook.
    Usually I'm killing SynTPEnh.exe task and run again. This helps to get back scrolling functionality.
     
    Overseer, Mar 10, 2008
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    jahboo Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi Overseer,

    Tried this and it doesn't seem to work :(.

    Cheers,

    jahboo
     
    jahboo, Mar 21, 2008
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    little_ink Newbie

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    I had this problem for ages! So annoying. I think this may have fixed it though: When you click for more details on the message box for the error it should bring up something like SynTPEnh.exe If you run this in a computer search of everything it should find it. I just clicked on it and the scroll down worked again.

    Hope it keeps working though- I couldn't live without my scroll down button :)
     
    little_ink, Sep 3, 2008
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  8. own3d

    own3d Notebook Evangelist

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    I used to have this problem .. ^^
     
    own3d, Sep 4, 2008
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  9. Tor

    Tor Newbie

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    I have the same problem on a newly aquired Lenovo w700 running Vista Business 64bit, anyone have a solution?
     
    Tor, Nov 29, 2008
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  10. X2P

    X2P COOLING | NBR Super Mod

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    Tor

    Please do not revive dead threads (6 mo or older) rather create a new one

    Thank you
     
    X2P, Nov 29, 2008
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