Y580 Touch Pad Issues

Hey guys, maybe some of you can tell me if it's the hardware or my settings that are screwy on this thing. For the life of me, after owning this Y580 for a couple months now, I can't get the touchpad to work in any way that doesn't absolutely infuriate me. I've never used a laptop, mine or otherwise, that was this awful.

Symptoms: sometimes it works properly (maybe 20% of the time it seems); sometimes it will act like it doesn't pick up my touch at all when I'm trying to move the pointer on the screen so I keep dragging across it over and over and it will move a couple mm's each time; sometimes it does basically the opposite and every time i touch it, no matter how light, it registers as a "click" and clicks on random crap constantly to the point that I can hardly use it.

Suggestions? And does anyone else have this kind of trouble out of this thing??

 

i don't have any issue with the touchpad, and i'm using the default synaptics driver.

but you can uninstall the synaptics driver and intelligent touchpad, and try the microsoft default driver. it has much fewer features, but stupid simple works.

if that doesn't work, get a cheap sub-$10 wireless mouse. no matter how good a touchpad, none is more efficient than a regular mouse.

 

I have the same issue, either it doesn't register or it just goes wonky and starts spazzing out all across the screen.

 

Does synaptic driver came preinstalled? Because I formatted and as link626 said, normal windows driver might work.

Btw light touch suppose to count as click. It is helpful as to not produce excessive sound.

Then again, yeah mouse is better than a touchpad