Sony Vaio Touchpad

Hey I have a sony vaio TZ (tz11m/n) which I rebooted and erased all the data from re-installing windows vista which it comes with. Since then the Touchpad has not worked at all. it seemed like the computer just did not detect it at all. Reguardless, vista runs terrible on that machine so I installed xp on it instead, -which is way better- but ofcourse, still no hope for the touchpad? any ideas on what could be wrong. I should add when installing the drivers for xp, the computer does detect under hiden devices the touchpad; it shows as "PS/2 Compatible mouse item", but still no hope for it working, help would be much appreciated!

 

Have u created a set of recovery disks..
Could use them >>

 

OR perhaps a FN + key combo which enables/disables the touchpad.>>

 

look at device manager, and either alps or synaptics

 

I have tried the device manager and loading the drivers manually, as well as rebooting the laptop to a clean state from recovery discs. It is an Alps touchpad. Reguardless none of these things have worked....