Urgent - DV7-1240us touchpad issue

Hi,

Got a DV7-1240us, been playing with it for a couple of weeks, have until this monday to obtain another or refund no q's asked.

I love it, but the touchpad ... towards the keyboard side, it appears to be "loose".

What I mean is that it has a bit of give on it if you press your finger down on it, the touchpad itself is not "attached" to any of its sides (you have to look at this model to know what I mean).

I'm thinking it is held on by double sided tape or something, and if I wanted to correct this myself, I could pry it up carefully and retape, but you know how that goes.

so I'm posting here in hopes someone else with this model, or one who knows HP's better than I do can tell me whether or not I can attempt to fix, should attempt to fix, or just get another one (in which I would have to worry about any other issues cropping up, I already returned one last week because the right shift key's scissors failed on me).

Thanks in advance brothers and sisters online, I really like this thing.

Marc

 

This is an issue that a couple of us has...someone stated that the touchpad was better after installing the second hard drive with the caddy.

 

Great to hear, so I'm not going nuts

I was hoping if it was taped, one could re-tape it down, or get something under that top edge to support it, but I appreciate your quick response, I'm going to keep it.

If anyone wants to chime in though, please do as I can still exchange on Monday at the latest.

BTW, for windows 7 users, I think you have to do an upgrade to vista, I did a fresh install, and had all the drivers, but ... the sata drive is then seen as a removable, and protectsmart no longer functions with it at that point.

I havent tried an upgrade to it yet, but may in the near future.