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    Np 8660 touch pad problem.

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by chidesd, Aug 24, 2009.

  1. chidesd

    chidesd Notebook Evangelist

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    Im starting o have a problem where my touchpad turns off randomly and wont come back on until reboot. I have vista 64bit and SP1. any thoughts?
     
    chidesd, Aug 24, 2009
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    Is the synaptics pointing device executable still on when the device stops working?
     
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  3. chidesd

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    how do i check with no mouse?
     
    chidesd, Aug 24, 2009
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    Crtl alt delete with tab.

    It goes like this

    1) Ctrl - Alt - Del
    2) Tab over to process tab, navigation with ctrl-tab and ctrl-shift-tab
    3) Check to see if SynTPEnh.exe is there.
     
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  5. chidesd

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    ok thz ill check it next time it happens
     
    chidesd, Aug 24, 2009
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    Also try uninstalling your touchpad drivers from the Control Panel Device Manager and then let them reinstall. Or reinstall those from the CD, if it is not a hardware problem, the drivers may have just become corrupted.
     
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  7. chidesd

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    just froze on me and the touch pad is still active under ctrl alt del
     
    chidesd, Aug 24, 2009
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    I'll just be Captain Obvious here and ask..
    Have you tried pressing Fn + F1?? Maybe somehow you're just hitting that key combo by accident and turning off the touchpad?
     
    DivisionByZero, Aug 24, 2009
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    Thats not so obvious, good call though.

    And if thats not the problem, you can try the abovem entioned solution, with a reinstall
     
    DaBunBun, Aug 24, 2009
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  10. chidesd

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    99% sure its not the fn f1 thing my hands have beeen no where near the f1 key when the touch pad goe out ill try reinstalling the drivers though.
     
    chidesd, Aug 24, 2009
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    Along with SynTPEnh.exe, you'll also need to make sure SynTPHelper.exe is running as well (in case you're like me and tend to disable anything labeled "helper').
     
    @nthony, Aug 25, 2009
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  12. chidesd

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    ok i done a bit more testing. once when it forze i tried fn f1 and nothing happpened. so the next time i turned on my bluetooth and connected a bluetooth nouse that seamed to fix my touch pad then it froze again so i turned bluetooth on again and connected my blutooth mouse but this time it didnt help my touch pad. could my touch pad be going out? if so How do I test it to make sure? or could it just be a really bad virus? and now as im typing this my touch pad randomly starts working again. My systems got to be really messed up. plz help
     
    chidesd, Aug 26, 2009
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  13. chidesd

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    bump plz any suggestions?
     
    chidesd, Aug 26, 2009
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    There must be conflict between your blueteeth mouth and the mouse pad. It happened to me before. I have a logitech vx nano mouse. What I did was installed the mouse first and then the synaptics app later.
     
    Win3K, Aug 27, 2009
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  15. chidesd

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    no thats not the problem. the touchpad promblem happened before i even installed my bluetooth mouse. doesnt matter now i did a frash install of vista and everything seems to e working right now.
     
    chidesd, Aug 30, 2009
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    ahhh...the problem is Vista
     
    Win3K, Aug 31, 2009
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