Synaptics Touchpad V 6.2

[Carl Harrison]

I have an Acer Aspire 5100. Mostly it works good with Vista Home Premium
w/updates except the new SP1.
Sometime ago the touchpad quit working and I just lived with it until today
when I had a little time to investigate.
In Device Manager it says the device is working properly. It also say its a
touchpad on PS/2 port using IRQ12.
I downloaded the latest driver suite from syaptics.com (5.2MB for the Vista
32 bit version) and ran it after
disabling the device, enabling the device, uninstalling the current driver,
restarting and having Vista reinstall the
old drivers with no luck.

However, after running the new driver suite (an .exe file) and restarting
Vista, the device showed disabled. When I
enabled it - the touchpad worked momentarily (about 5 or 6 seconds). Every
time I disable or enable it, it responds
and works for about 5 or six seconds and then quits.

No option to change the port or IRQ setting as they are 'grayed out'.

Would appreciate any insight or direction on this one.

Thanks,

Carl

 

[Carl Harrison]

Thx heavenly_blade101. ME 2

---my memory is like a steel trap - nothing gets in OR out.

PS Tried replying directly to heavenly_blade101, but received mail
undeliverable message.

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have the same laptop and had the same issue. i felt stupid when i found
the answer. Fn + F7. enables and disables the touch pad.

 

[Charlie42]

PS Tried replying directly to heavenly_blade101, but received mail
undeliverable message.

To avoid spam, people munge their email addresses or simply use bogus ones
when posting in newsgroups. You should too.

Charlie42

 

[DevilsPGD]

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