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    Touchpad

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by sijon, May 14, 2009.

  1. sijon

    sijon Newbie

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    I have a gateway MT6728, my touchpad stopped working and there is no display of it on my task bar. When I go into pointing device hardware it states that the device is working fine. Is there a way to enable the touchpad? I don't know if I disabled it by accident or that I may need a new touchpad. Do touchpad go bad?
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  2. -L1GHTGAM3R-

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    u might of disabled it under auto start try to check if u did.
    1/click start
    2/under search
    3/type in msconfig
    4/hit enter
    5/click start up tab
    6/look for the touch pad brand ex. synaptics
     
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  3. sijon

    sijon Newbie

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    hey L1ghtgam3r,

    Thx for your reply I did it and it said it was enabled. Do you think I have a bad touchpad?
     
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    Tybalt39 Notebook Evangelist

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    Potential stupid question here...

    Do you have an external mouse or keyboard plugged in? Some touchpad drivers shut down the touchpad when an external pointing device is connected.

    Just a quick thought...
     
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  5. sijon

    sijon Newbie

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    I do right now because if I didnt I cant move the pointer, I took the ext mouse out and tried the pad ....to no avail though
     
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    try re-installing the driver for the touch pad or try to find a more updated driver for it.
     
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  7. sijon

    sijon Newbie

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    I did that last night. this sounds bad
     
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    did u install a new driver yesterday and all of a sudden it stopped try to rollback driver maybe that new driver installed badly
     
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  9. sijon

    sijon Newbie

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    No, I lost the pad while using the laptop, then tried to uninstall/reinstall the driver and still not working, sry about not giving u more info.
     
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    interesting their is a slight chance that it might of got disconnected but close to impossible unless opened or dropped......hmmmm sound like the touch pad might have gone out but those things never quite just go out that easily. well shouldn't be to expensive to replace maybe ebay has them.
     
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    -L1GHTGAM3R-, May 14, 2009
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  12. sijon

    sijon Newbie

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    thx. l1 i apreciate your help
     
    sijon, May 14, 2009
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  13. -L1GHTGAM3R-

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    no problem happy to help..... :D
     
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    Definitely try rolling back the driver, restarting after each roll back. If you roll back until there is none left, uninstall the device, restart, and then reinstall the touchpad software. You may have to try different drivers, I'm using the Dell Touchpad drivers although I have them set (Its an option) to disable the touchpad when a USB mouse is plugged in. You may just want to try the default synaptics drivers (Its worth trying a couple different releases), take care of the easy stuff first (software) before going to the hardware (touchpad replacement).
     
    AGlobalThreatsK, May 15, 2009
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