Vista .. keyboard issue perhaps? (M570RU)

(I'm posting in this subforum as it 'feels' to me to be a Clevo specific thing, not a Windows thing per se.)

I ordered XP32 of course with the machine a year or two back when I got it, but since then the drivers for Vista 64 got useful so recently I switched over (really just in preparation for Win7 64 .. figured I might as well get a full reinstall out of the way, and maybe upgrade to Win7 64 that way....) XP was basicly solid but had a couple nits (USB mouse driver woudl crash on restore from hibernate once in awhile, which was a nuisance.)

Switched to Vista 64 (fresh install) and everything works great..... but like with XP, theres a nuisance. When typing in Skype, occasionally skype will minimize (!), or the cursor will jump to where the mouse is. Similar for when typing into a text edit field in Firefox.

Since Vista includes a lot of its own drivers, it could be a driver issue.. perhaps the touchpad is 'over sensitive' and detecting a press when the air is dense and sunposts go past overhead, and simulating a 'click', perhaps. Its pretty rare, but common enough to be damned annoying when you start typgin into the middle of a sentence as the cursor jumps.

Anyone seen such a thing before?

As I don't use the touchpad much, perhaps I should just disable it and see if the problem goes away.

Perhaps I should reflash the BIOS keyboard handler, or cast around for any Sager drivers to override Vista built in drivers for random things. Just the machine works well enough aside of all that, so I hate to bugger it up

jeff

 

Sounds like your palm is touching the touchpad while you are typing, common problem, enable palmcheck in the synaptics drivers (or install the synaptics drivers if you haven't already)

 

Sounds like that I agree, except I never had a problem in XP, just in Vista. (But perhaps XP had that setting or a sensitivity setting done right.)

I checked and don't have the synaptics drivers installed yet, so doing it now .. thanks

jeff