Touchpad on my Toshiba laptop stopped working without any reason
I had a few customers bringing their Toshiba laptops for repair with exactly the same problem. The touchpad stopped working without any reason. The laptop is working just fine with an external USB mouse but the touchpad is dead.
Solution? Most likely the touchpad was disabled somehow. On Toshiba laptops you can enable or disable the touchpad with Fn+F9 shortcut on the keyboard.
Hold down the Fn key and at the same time press once on the F9 key. This will enable the touch pad.
Does it help?
March 8th, 2011 at 4:58 pm
Update: Still having the same problem. I thought maybe the hard drive was damaged. Swapped out the hd and still same thing happened. I’m beginning to think the its the board. If/when I find out the issue, I will post back to help anyone who may have the same issue(s).
February 26th, 2011 at 7:56 pm
Clint-I have the same Toshiba and mine was working fine then 45 minutes later mine is doing the same thing yours is. Trying to figure out what is going on as well.
February 15th, 2011 at 2:58 pm
Help!!
I hope this is the right place to post this.
I have a Toshiba Sat. L505D that is maybe 3 years old. The other night my 2 year old son slammed the lid shut and it immediately started making a strange humming sound. I powered it down and upon restart the keyboard and touch pad no longer work. I tried plugging in a usb mouse and neither port is working. Upon start up it suggests doing system restore and because I cannot change the option, it continues. After loading the files I get the blue screen that says they BIOS is not ACPI compliant. After doing some searching, I read that this is not a valid error. If I remove one of the sticks of RAM and reboot, the keyboard, touch pad and usb ports are still not working but it does not blue screen after the system restore. It suggests going back to a date when the computer was working but because I have no touch pad/mouse, I cannot. However, the keyboard does work at the very beginning of the startup. I can hit f2 to enter the bios but once in the bios, the keyboard no longer works. Also if I hit capslock or numlock at the very start, the lights come on but after the laptop starts to boot up, nothing works. I tried inserting a recovery disc but because the arrow keys don’t work, I cannot select the boot from disc option. Please help me. I have no clue what to do!
February 11th, 2011 at 3:23 am
Thanks v much.. it works v well.. again thanks alot
February 9th, 2011 at 3:07 pm
Hello,
My right-click button on my Toshiba laptop stopped working today. I tried the Fn-F9 approach, and when I tested it again within a few minutes of that time, it worked!
Thanks,
– George
February 5th, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Thank you! Nowhere else does it give this information. Thank you!
January 23rd, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Yea it did! Thank you so much! I’ve tried everything else and was on the verge of taking it to the shop.
January 20th, 2011 at 5:14 pm
I tried this with my toshiba nb200 but it didn’t work. the touchpad was deactivated by the fn + F9 and can’t put it back anymore. beside the drop down list for fn key does not appear anymore but other fn key such as F6 & F7 still work.
December 18th, 2010 at 5:54 am
Thank You
Worked like a charm
December 12th, 2010 at 9:45 am
My cat sat on my laptop and I knew he disabled the touchpad somehow, thank you sooooo much for the advice it worked right away, could not find any help in the laptop’s help section.
December 9th, 2010 at 8:10 pm
thanks in a million, you are a life saver, i have had this problem for almost two years now, so i ve been using usb mouse till i came to this page..thanks i really appreciate this.
October 14th, 2010 at 1:13 pm
i have a toshiba satellite a200-1a9. i had to reformat recently due to virus and ever since then the scroll function on my touchpad does not work. i have checked the driver and it says its up to date and correct but will still not work. please help
October 6th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
many many thanks mate!
appreciate this!
October 2nd, 2010 at 9:37 am
I have an Elitebook 2530p and whenever I close the laptop and then come back and open it later, it “locks.” When it does this, the mouse doesn’t work and whenever I touch the mouse pad, it makes a loud ringing noise. The only way I have found to make it work again is to take the battery out and restart the whole computer. Do you know what is wrong? Do I have to turn off the computer everytime I close it?
September 8th, 2010 at 6:37 pm
SOS!
I have my Toshiba satellite L305D disassembled to replace touchpad. How can I safely remove the touchpad circuit board that is glued to palmrest. I just need to remove the board and put it on the new palmrest I bought. Please help!
September 8th, 2010 at 11:33 am
Please help! I need instructions to remove/replace touchpad circuit board from palmrest so I can place it on the new palmrest.
I already disassembled everything except the circuit board. It seems like it’s been glued somehow.
I’ll really appreciate if you can suggest anything.
Thank you
August 2nd, 2010 at 3:03 pm
I got on my L505D-S5983 Toshiba laptop and my touch-pad and all my buttons don’t work,only the power button. i am typing this with a mouse and the online keyboard. Please help.
June 9th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Help! I have an Hp laptop and when I have headphones plugged in the touchpad at the top doesnt work. How do i fix this??
June 8th, 2010 at 3:00 pm
I cannot utilize the 2 finger scroll on my emachines notebook. How do i turn it on? I just resztored my computer to factory settings.
May 25th, 2010 at 4:46 am
i tried that on my 6week old protege a600 toshiba notebook, and did didnt work – not happy – mine just stopped. was fine in morning logged off and on restart no mouse. plug and play usb mouse works. unit doesnt seem to have a mouse driver now, have attempted to load one but no luck
not happy – anyone got a clue??………or an idea of what the correct driver needs to be??
thanks
May 18th, 2010 at 5:47 am
thank you very much! My touchpad is finally working! I’ve tried every solution I can find over the net. I thought I have to replace some parts in my toshiba laptop. You’re a heaven sent! Thank you again and more power!
May 5th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
much thanks
March 10th, 2010 at 4:55 am
I hav a satellite toshiba u500, with windows 7 OS – same problem the keys are too sensitive, it jumps leaps or just go somewhere i dont like – i tried the FN – F9 key, it is not responding…
Please advise
/cj
January 31st, 2010 at 6:38 pm
Thanks for the solution. The Fn + F9 worked & the pad was free & I can better use my Toshiba laptop.
January 23rd, 2010 at 3:14 pm
I can use my touchpad to move around a page but the “tap to click” option isn’t working. I’ve already checked and it is enabled. It wouldn’t bother me except everytime I use the the buttons below the touchpad to click something it tries to highlight everything on the page or scroll down if I move the cursor around. Anything else I can do to make tap to click work again?
January 4th, 2010 at 3:59 pm
Marhesha,
Not sure what’s going on. Try disabling caret browsing: http://blogmines.com/blog/2009/07/15/what-is-caret-browsing-in-internet-explorer-8/
I guess it’s possible that you have a faulty keyboard. Maybe one of the keys is stuck and because of that it types letters on its own.
Here’s what you can try. Disconnect internal keyboard from the motherboard and start your laptop with an external USB keyboard. Will it type on its own when the internal keyboard is disconnected?
Here’s another useful link: http://www.insidemylaptop.com/replace-damaged-keyboard-dell-inspiron-1525-laptop/
January 4th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
HElP!!! PLEASE AND QUICKLY!!
I have a dell innspiron 1525 and i also have windows 7. My laptop touchpad keeps freezing the a window pops up about something called caret browsing then when i touch the touchpad it starts typing random letters! I have to restart my computer again to stop it and i happens very often!!!
December 28th, 2009 at 6:29 am
Thank you so much! My 2-yr old son was “typing” and managed to disable the touchpad. I figured he had broken it and I was going to have to replace it.
November 18th, 2009 at 5:06 pm
YES! Thank you! You’d think they’d put a reference to this in the owner’s manual under “Using the Touchpad” rather than just in the hotkeys listings.
November 7th, 2009 at 7:34 am
Thank you!!!!! i’ve looked everywhere on how to fix this and nothing helped me! But this finaly did! thank you!