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 16th, 2012 at 6:12 am
thanks i eas ready to take it for repear
February 15th, 2012 at 8:12 am
Hi I have same problem on fujitsu siemens can you give the keys for that please.
November 29th, 2011 at 1:51 pm
THANK YOU!! You saved my cat! He slept on the laptop keyboard and then the touchpad didn’t work, he was headed for the chopping block when my husband got home! LOL! Thanks a million!
July 10th, 2011 at 1:09 pm
My toshbia seattile L305-S5955 touchpad stop working and tried FN and F9
and it’s enable but still the touchpad doesn’t work help plz tires if using
The mouse I put in my USB port
June 5th, 2011 at 9:23 am
I did this & IT WORKED!!! Sweet mother of Mary, dude, you are a SAINT. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, because I was FLAMING MAD over here!!!! Thank you again.
June 4th, 2011 at 7:59 am
This did not help. My fn key works for everything but F9. I have checked to see if the settings have it disabled, nope. I know that there is a setting for if you have a USB mouse to disable the touchpad when you plug it in. That is not the issue, I don’t have a usb mouse. It just stopped working. I have since then installed a USB mouse so that I can use my laptop and I reinstalled the drivers, updated the drivers, did just about everything. I would like to know where I can inspect the key mapping, maybe that is what is wrong, but I don’t know. Please help.
May 22nd, 2011 at 8:12 pm
OMG! thank you so much!! tried everything, such a simple easy fix, thanks again!!
May 12th, 2011 at 3:25 pm
Thank you so much! I was afraid I’d lost functionality because of a piece of software I downloaded. I even went back to a previous restore point just to be safe, but the functionality did not come back. Your tip worked perfectly! Another great blog that will go on my bookmarks list.
May 5th, 2011 at 6:11 am
i hav my toshiba satellite. Touchpad of my laptop doesnt work, i can move my touchpad up and down but i cant click it. please help me with this problem.
April 22nd, 2011 at 8:29 pm
Thank you so much. I did the Fn + F9 press then my touch pad starting working again. I’ve had this laptop for almost a yearbow and I didnt know I can disable the touch pad. Maybe I did disable it accidentally. LOL.. Thank you so much for the help!!
March 26th, 2011 at 8:51 pm
Thanks for helping me out.I was so tensed about what to do after my touchpad stopped working.