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 an idea. It’s possible that you have touchpad tapping option enabled. Apparently, when you typing you accidentally touching/tapping on the touchpad and because of that the blinker jump to another location.
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 laptop.
I think your mouse keeps moving on its own because there is a problem with the pointer (red button) on the keyboard. Apparently it’s broken and causing the mouse to move on it’s own. You’ll have to replace the keyboard.
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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, it acts as you click on the left button. That’s why it jumps to the cursor when you accidentally touch the touch pad. Try disabling the tapping option, it should help. Go to the control panel and find out where you can change setting for the touch pad. Disable the touch pad tapping option.
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 from the touchpad during the disassembly process. I’ve done the same mistake on both Tecra M2 and Tecra M3 laptops.
Here’s what you should do.
1. Remove the palmrest (top cover) again as it shown in the step 12 in this disassembly guide.
2. Turn over the palmrest and remove screws from the touchpad. Separate the touchpad from the palmrest.
3. On the back side of the touchpad you’ll see white sticky tape. Remove the tape.
4. Plug the touchpad cable back into the touchpad, make sure to plug the correct end of the cable and secure it back to the touchpad with the same sticky tape.
5. Install the touchpad back into the palmrest and assemble everything back together.
If the touchpad still not working after the cable has been properly installed, try enabling the touchpad with Fn+F9 keys.
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 then it stops, but I’m worried that if we don’t find a solution then it will get worse. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
This could be software related issue. You can try reimaging the hard dive, it might help. Backup all important data and then reinstall the operating system and drivers form the recovery discs. If reimaging the hard drive will not help, most likely the trackpad is going bad and you’ll have to replace it.
If you don’t want to reinstall Windows, you can test the laptop this way. Boot your laptop from any live Linux CD, I usually use Knoppix. This will boot your laptop into Linux OS bypassing Windows installed on the hard drive. You don’t need any special Linux knowledge for this test because it will boot your laptop into a Windows like environment. All you need to do is create a bootable Linux CD, boot your laptop to the desktop and test the trackpad. If you still experiencing the same problem even with Linux running from the CD, your problem is related to the hardware, apparently you have bad trackpad.
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 no corrosion damage. There was no damage visible, and very little liquid inside the machine (just a few drops on the black plastic underneath the keyboard, but nothing on the motherboard itself as far as I could see).
Once I powered it back up, however, the touchpad wasn’t working at all, though the keyboard and everything else seems to be working OK. I checked the connection (which was a bit loose) and reattached it, but no luck. The lights at the front of the computer near the touchpad work fine. Any suggestions as to what the problem could be? Is it possible to replace the touchpad if all else fails?
Before you go inside the laptop try enabling the touchpad by pressing Fn + F9 keys. Maybe it was disabled somehow.
I think you’ll have to remove the laptop top cover and take a closer look at the motherboard. Even though you cannot see any liquid damage under the keyboard, it still could be on the motherboard.
Here are instructions for taking apart Satellite A60 or A65 notebooks, could be helpful.
Remove the top cover and check out the motherboard. If it looks clean and there is no liquid damage, probably you’ll have to replace the touchpad. Yes, it’s possible but you’ll have to remove the top cover first.
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 I move it right). I am getting so frustrated with this because if I just finished entering any information I have to redo it all. Is there a way to turn this off? It’s been doing this since the day I bought it. It doesn’t do this every time but it does it enough to make me want to pull my hair out, please help!
I think you have some kind of advanced settings enabled in the mouse/touch pad management utility. You’ll have to turn off these advanced settings. I think there could be some settings for tapping on the touch pad. For example, when you tap on the left corner it takes you to the previous page, when you tap on the right corner it takes you to the next page. Search in the control panel, find this mouse/touch pad management utility and disable advanced functions.
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 it detects no adware. Here is the odd thing we’ve noticed the last few days. I always use the touchpad and my fiancé always uses an attached mouse. The laptop never freezes up when using the attached mouse. The last 2 days I’ve attached the mouse but continued to use the touchpad—-no freezing for hours. Detach the mouse instant freeze???? Does this make sense??? Have you ever come across this problem before or any ideas??
Yeah, that’s a very odd problem. I think that if it would be a hardware problem, then the laptop would freeze up regardless the attached mouse. It’s possible that you have some kind of software problem. Not necessary a virus or an adware, may be just a corrupted driver or corrupted system file. But it doesn’t make any sense why the touchpad works fine when the external mouse attached.
Here’s what I would try to do to troubleshoot, detect and eliminate the problem:
1. Go the Device Manager and locate Mice and other pointing devices entry. Click on “+” to expand it and uninstall PS/2 Compatible Mouse. Restart the laptop and see if the problem is fixed.
2. Restart the laptop in Safe Mode by pressing F8 key as soon as Toshiba logo appears on the screen and selecting the Safe Mode line. If the touchpad works fine in Safe Mode, then you have a piece of software that conflicts with the touchpad in Normal Mode. Go to step 5.
3. Another troubleshooting step (more advanced) is to boot laptop with Knoppix CD (live Linux CD). This OS runs directly from the CD bypassing Windows installation on the hard drive. If you still experience the same problem in Linux then the problem is not related to Windows. Knoppix CD will boot the laptop into a Windows like environment where you can use the touchpad.
4. I would also try to reflash/upgrade the laptop BIOS.
5. The final step would be reloading the hard drive back to original Toshiba defaults. You’ll have to boot the laptop from the recovery CD and follow the wizard. Reloading the hard drive will erase all your personal data, so do not forget to back it up before you run the restore CD/DVD.
If re-flashing the BIOS and reloading the hard drive doesn’t help, then you might have a hardware related problem.