Asus Eeepc ( Built in devices stop working after startup )

Adit Gadkary · May 15

I recently discovered my mom’s old Asus Eee PC R105D with Intel Atom N455 . and immediately upgraded its slow hard drive to a 256 GB Crucial SSD. From day one, I’ve encountered two major issues: the built-in mouse and trackpad don’t work. Interestingly, the keyboard and trackpad function perfectly in the BIOS, but once the operating system loads, they’re detected by the OS but don’t respond to any input.

I’ve tried several operating systems—Bodhi Linux, Windows Vista, and the original OEM Windows 7 Starter—and installed all relevant drivers, but nothing changed. To rule out hardware issues, I even opened the laptop and reseated the keyboard and trackpad ribbon cables, but the issue remained.

Oddly enough, I also discovered that both the mouse and keyboard start working when the laptop is in sleep. mode. As soon as it's woken up, however, they stop responding again—bringing me right back to square o

ne. Also since that's happening ,I also installed it's lastest BIOS update thinking it will change . But nothing happened.

Btw I love working on old system's so as a hobby / side work I am working on it . I would greatly appreciate your interest and time for this .

Regards

Kilrah · May 15

They likely need specific drivers, I'd put back the original drive, boot that and run DoubleDriver to extract the drivers to then load them on the other install.

Cloning the original drive onto the SSD and running that could be an option too.

Adit Gadkary · May 15

46 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

They likely need specific drivers, I'd put back the original drive, boot that and run DoubleDriver to extract the drivers to then load them on the other install.

Cloning the original drive onto the SSD and running that could be an option too.

Well the problem here is that I am not with my mother anymore ( divorce ) and the laptop has a password which I really don't know. Any chance that I can just connect that hard disk to my other laptop via sata to usb and extract the driver files ?

Adit Gadkary · May 15

6 hours ago, Kilrah said:

They likely need specific drivers, I'd put back the original drive, boot that and run DoubleDriver to extract the drivers to then load them on the other install.

Cloning the original drive onto the SSD and running that could be an option too.

See , I can't contact her , understand. At the moment I can only access the hard disk via usb to sata cuse even if I boot up i need a password to login windows which I don't have nor I can get it . So I can only access it via external storage option. If I find the exact driver file ( .ini I think ) can get the thing working? Like searching up driver files name and find those in original hdd ?