XP not detecting hardware (touchpad)

[Guest]

My ACER Aspire 5610 laptop froze recently and I had to restart it but when I
did the touchpad (Synaptics TouchPad v6.2 on PS/2 Port3) was not working
anymore. Therefore, I uninstalled the driver in order to try re-installing
it hoping it would work. However, now the laptop does not detect the
touchpad so even if I install the driver it does not work now (according to
the 'mouse properties' this device is working properly).

The interesting thing is that every time I restart my laptop I get a message
telling me that a 'printer' was detected even though I don't have any printer
installed neither locally nor in a network. The installation of this
'printer' always fails.

How can I force the computer to detect my touchpad? Do I have it assigned
to the right Port? This touchpad came with the laptop and has been working
fine all the time.

 

[sdlomi2]

My ACER Aspire 5610 laptop froze recently and I had to restart it but when
I
did the touchpad (Synaptics TouchPad v6.2 on PS/2 Port3) was not working
anymore. Therefore, I uninstalled the driver in order to try
re-installing
it hoping it would work. However, now the laptop does not detect the
touchpad so even if I install the driver it does not work now (according
to
the 'mouse properties' this device is working properly).

The interesting thing is that every time I restart my laptop I get a
message
telling me that a 'printer' was detected even though I don't have any
printer
installed neither locally nor in a network. The installation of this
'printer' always fails.

How can I force the computer to detect my touchpad? Do I have it assigned
to the right Port? This touchpad came with the laptop and has been
working
fine all the time.

Will a usb-mouse work? s

 

[RalfG]

Try system restore to the day before the freeze happened. Sounds like the
touchpad driver was corrupted or otherwise interfered with by something
(likely software).

 

[Guest]

I wrote to Acer and got the solution fro them. There was a key combination
(FN + F7) that activates the touchpad and it seems that during the crash it
was deactivated somehow. All I had to do was uninstall the driver, then
uninstall the hardware and re-start. Then it was detected and installed and
then with the keys I turned on.

That problem with the 'printer' seems to have been created by me when trying
to install a driver.

It's all good now ... thanks

 

[Theslaz]

I recently purchased an Acer Aspire 4730Z lapto. However, I could not
get the touchpad to work. Restarting and updating would not help.

However, after reading this article, used the simple step (Press Fn +
F7) and the touchpad started working!!!

Thanks. Thanks

Sounds interesting; however; what/where is the "Fn" key??