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 [...]

My typing blinker goes wherever it wants while I am typing

At points within typing my typing blinker goes wherever it wants. If I don’t pay attention I will end up writing all my sentences in another. I am not sure how to fix this. Sometimes it just goes away and I’m doing nothing. If you know what I could do please let me know.
I have [...]

Mouse on the screen keeps moving on its own

My laptop has a 2 mouse pointers. One is a touchpad and the other is the red button in the center of the keyboard.
My problem is that the mouse keeps moving on its own. If i try using either of the 2 it still moves all over the screen. I have a Compaq EVO N610c [...]

When I type on my laptop it jumps to where the cursor is

When I am typing away on my Compaq laptop it will suddenly stop and jump to where the cursor is, think i have a sensitive touch pad. Does anyone know how to fix this?
Probably it jumps to the cursor because you accidentally tap on the touch pad. If the touch pad tapping option is enabled, [...]

After I took apart Toshiba Tecra M3 the touchpad stopped working

I rather stupidly took apart my Toshiba Tecra M3 to clean the heat sink. Upon reassembly the touchpad was frozen, upon which I discovered that the touchpad cable was not connected. It is connected to the motherboard but I cant seem to find where it attaches on the touchpad end?
Apparently you accidentally pulled the cable [...]

Laptop trackpad problem. Pointer will not go up or down.

We have an Inspiron 1420 laptop with a normal trackpad. Recently we’ve had a problem where the pointer will not go down no matter how much you drag your finger down on the trackpad. The pointer will still go left and right, but not up or down. It usually lasts a minute or so and [...]

Touchpad stopped working after I spilled a drink on it

Another touchpad problem here – I stupidly spilled a drink over the touchpad and keyboard on my Toshiba Satellite A60 a few days ago, and since then the touchpad isn’t responding. I switched the computer off straight away after the spill, and opened it up to check it was dry inside and that there was [...]

When I use my touch pad to move the cursor, once in a while it will send me to the previous or next page

I’m having problems while viewing Web pages or even say going through folders on my computer because when I use my touch pad to move the cursor right or left, every once in a while it will send me to the previous page (when I move it left) or forward to the next one (if [...]

My laptop locks up and freezes when I use the touchpad, but never freezes when I use the attached mouse

Hi, I’ve been experiencing lock-up or freezing problems with my laptop for about 6 months. The model is Satellite A55-S306. I’ve spoke with a few repair shops and they insisted I must have a virus or adware. My antivirus is up to date and detects no virus, also I’ve downloaded Spybot Search and Destroy and [...]