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    Problem with my touchpad

    Discussion in 'HP' started by JohnnyJlo128, Aug 8, 2011.

  1. JohnnyJlo128

    JohnnyJlo128 Notebook Geek

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    PROBLEM:

    So I was normally using my Envy today and just updating my BIOS and decided to play around and double tap to disable my trackpad and now its stuck in the off position. I tried restarting my laptop and now it doesn't have the orange light that indicates it is turned off but I still can't use it. I'm using Reil's program for scrolling but it didn't mess with this disabling of the trackpad until today. Any after my BIOS was updated everything was fine until I disabled it. I can sometimes get it to move when I use 3 fingers but that's it. Help??
     
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    I don't want to be of a bother to most folks here but this is urgent because school starts in about a week and need to be able to use it in lectures and such. I tried reinstalling the drivers to synaptics but nothing changed. I occassionally can move the mouse around with the trackpad but its very choppy and non of the multi-gestures work nor can I click anything with the trackpad.
     
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    Try deleting/disabling Reil's program, then delete Synaptics drivers (either from program files or "Uninstall a Program" in Windows). Go to HP's driver site and download their touchpad drivers. Hope it works, but that's just my best guess.
     
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    Reil's program is disabled and I reinstalled the most recent touchpad drivers and nothing fixed it :(
     
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    Hmmm....I just configured my BIOS to default and everything seems to work fine. Apparently the new BIOS (F.06) caused something to go wrong. Is this happening to anyone else?
     
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    See if updating any drivers or windows update fixes the problem
     
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    Hasn't happened to me. You didn't change anything (other than fixed vs dynamic) in BIOS, have you?
     
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    Nope. I don't play many games on my laptop so I didn't bother with changing the BIOS to fixed. It just happened all of the sudden but now it is working fine.

    Updating the driver didn't do anything since I already had the latest driver and I had no windows updates.
     
    JohnnyJlo128, Aug 9, 2011
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