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    touchpad problems

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by mr_ascii, Jun 15, 2007.

  1. mr_ascii

    mr_ascii Newbie

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    Hi, I have an OLD vaio (PCG-505G) and the touchpad no longer works. It was like this when I bought it used, and I'm decent enough at running windows with keyboard commands but I'd love to get the touchpad working again. Has anyone experienced this problem, and were you able to fix it? Thanks in advance for your help!


    Note: It does not appear to be a driver issue - the mouse just doesn't work (unless I plug in an external USB one, of course).
     
    mr_ascii, Jun 15, 2007
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  2. robus

    robus Notebook Geek

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    Hi,
    I had same problem and same situation. I bought it broken. I ended up buying just the touchpad with palm rests on eBay. With shipping it was less than $10.
    Rob
     
    robus, Jun 15, 2007
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    maxinflixion Notebook Guru

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    Did this solve your issues? I just refurbed an FX-370 that I picked up on Craigslist and theTouchpad seems to randomly left click when I am running Ubuntu Live CD/Installer.

    I had to reconnect the Touchpad as teh previous owner had removed the palmrest and teh ribbon cable came unplugged from the Touchpad end of it. I am assuming thsi damaged the cable in some way.

    Figured you may have some insight as you have a similar model
     
    maxinflixion, Jul 10, 2007
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