[SOLVED] synaptics touch pad problems

apeters · 07-09-2007, 08:31 PM

urg. My cat jumped on my laptop and now I cannot get my touchpad to work at all. I have uninstalled and reinstalled and everything and get nothing. Says it is working but it isn't. Had to resort to plugging in old regular mouse in USB port to get anything. What on earth do I do?

**BCCOMP** · 07-09-2007, 08:38 PM

Shut down the computer. Then disconnect the external mouse. disconnect the battery and ac supply for a while. Then reinstall the battery and ac adapter and boot it up. Let me know what happens.

apeters · 07-10-2007, 05:51 AM

yes, yes, yes, thank you so much. It worked. Appreciate that. Old mouse was terrible when using this laptop!!!! Thanks again for all your help! alisa

**BCCOMP** · 07-10-2007, 06:29 AM

Glad it worked, Laptops with a good battery installed will retain settings in your laptop even if AC is diconnected. Removing both power sources for a while clears most of these settings. If your laptop acts up again this is the first thing to try.

Bill

klavn · 04-28-2008, 02:23 AM

Thanks Bro ur Trick Worked For Me too . My Synaptic Touch Pad Was Not Working 4 No Reason . I also Tried Uninstalling n Reinstalling In Vain . Ur Trick gr8. Thanks.

madsruud · 03-05-2009, 01:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BCCOMP

Shut down the computer. Then disconnect the external mouse. disconnect the battery and ac supply for a while. Then reinstall the battery and ac adapter and boot it up. Let me know what happens.

Thank you so much!

I registered on this site just to thank you! This was very helpful to me, and I even tried to reinstall the driver several times.

botnet · 06-14-2009, 03:08 PM

my touch pad doesn't work either and I tried that "snake oil" fix but that didn't do anything I still have to use a mouse........any more ideas?

grwelsh · 10-13-2009, 06:31 AM

Pretty funny... My cat lays on my laptop everytime I step away from it... I found out, that she stepped on the 2 buttons needed to "disable" my synapic mouse pad. On my computer its FN & F9... It could be different for yours but I would attempt this before taking things apart. I have vista, so when i hold the FN key, all of the options appear at the top of the screen. touchpad is f9... hope this helps.

07-09-2007, 08:31 PM	#1 (permalink)
apeters Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 2 OS: xp	[SOLVED] synaptics touch pad problems urg. My cat jumped on my laptop and now I cannot get my touchpad to work at all. I have uninstalled and reinstalled and everything and get nothing. Says it is working but it isn't. Had to resort to plugging in old regular mouse in USB port to get anything. What on earth do I do?

07-09-2007, 08:38 PM	#2 (permalink)
BCCOMP Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: New York Posts: 7,022 OS: Win XP SP3 / Windows 7 Beta / Open Suse My System	Re: synaptics touch pad problems Shut down the computer. Then disconnect the external mouse. disconnect the battery and ac supply for a while. Then reinstall the battery and ac adapter and boot it up. Let me know what happens.

07-10-2007, 05:51 AM	#3 (permalink)
apeters Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 2 OS: xp	Re: synaptics touch pad problems yes, yes, yes, thank you so much. It worked. Appreciate that. Old mouse was terrible when using this laptop!!!! Thanks again for all your help! alisa

07-10-2007, 06:29 AM	#4 (permalink)
BCCOMP Mod Hardware Team Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: New York Posts: 7,022 OS: Win XP SP3 / Windows 7 Beta / Open Suse My System	Re: synaptics touch pad problems Glad it worked, Laptops with a good battery installed will retain settings in your laptop even if AC is diconnected. Removing both power sources for a while clears most of these settings. If your laptop acts up again this is the first thing to try. Bill

04-28-2008, 02:23 AM	#5 (permalink)
klavn Registered User Join Date: Apr 2008 Posts: 8 OS: MS XP HOME Edition SP2	Re: synaptics touch pad problems Thanks Bro ur Trick Worked For Me too . My Synaptic Touch Pad Was Not Working 4 No Reason . I also Tried Uninstalling n Reinstalling In Vain . Ur Trick gr8. Thanks.

06-14-2009, 03:08 PM	#7 (permalink)
botnet Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1 OS: Windows XP Pro	Re: [SOLVED] synaptics touch pad problems my touch pad doesn't work either and I tried that "snake oil" fix but that didn't do anything I still have to use a mouse........any more ideas? Last edited by botnet; 06-14-2009 at 03:10 PM.

10-13-2009, 06:31 AM	#8 (permalink)
grwelsh Registered User Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 1 OS: vista	Re: [SOLVED] synaptics touch pad problems Pretty funny... My cat lays on my laptop everytime I step away from it... I found out, that she stepped on the 2 buttons needed to "disable" my synapic mouse pad. On my computer its FN & F9... It could be different for yours but I would attempt this before taking things apart. I have vista, so when i hold the FN key, all of the options appear at the top of the screen. touchpad is f9... hope this helps.