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Laptop touchpad problem!

skljom
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I used laptop for browsing web using touchpad, gone to get some food came back and touchpad doesn't work. I have done nothing, it just died somehow. It shows to work properly in control panel and device menager. Drivers are still runing and fine, but even without drivers it should be working normally... What to do? It has program for showing pressure and other stuff, I open it and press touchpad, it doesn't register anything ....

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I know this may not prove incredibly successful... But if it were me, I would always just put a fresh OS on a different hard drive and boot from it to make 100% certain that it IS in fact a hardware issue. If the touchpad works with the new OS, then problem solved. If not, then I suppose the touchpad is probably damaged in a physical way. Things do wear out over time. It's not always a sudden force that breaks computer components.

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make a linux boot disk and try that.
Also, if there are any hotkeys, function buttons, or double tap to disable buttons for the touchpad, try pressing those again and see if it works.

 

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