Laptop touchscreen not responding

[Sleeper PC 2016]

I recently bought a samsung laptop for 50 dollars with a i7 3645qm, 8 gigs of ram, and a amd radeon HD8700m. The laptop has a touchscreen but isnt responding to touch. Windows sees the touchscreen but doesnt work.

[newcbomb]

Its very possible its broken, but i have 0 experience with touchscreens. And how the heck did you get that deal?

[zombienerd]

Check drivers, make sure they're up to date.  Make sure touch is enabled in settings / control panel. 

 

If both of those check out, then it could be a cabling issue or a damaged component.

[mankeez]

8 minutes ago, Sleeper PC 2016 said:

I recently bought a samsung laptop for 50 dollars with a i7 3645qm, 8 gigs of ram, and a amd radeon HD8700m. The laptop has a touchscreen but isnt responding to touch. Windows sees the touchscreen but doesnt work.

You got a bunk one. RMA it and you're done.

[Sleeper PC 2016]

3 minutes ago, mankeez said:

You got a bunk one. RMA it and you're done.

bought on craigslist

[mankeez]

5 minutes ago, Sleeper PC 2016 said:

bought on craigslist

You're fucked then.

Contact the seller and ask if he had this problem before selling it to you. If he didn't mention its malfunction, you could try to pry it and get a refund from craigslist, although I doubt you'll get anything.

[Ryujin2003]

10 minutes ago, Sleeper PC 2016 said:

I recently bought a samsung laptop for 50 dollars with a i7 3645qm, 8 gigs of ram, and a amd radeon HD8700m. The laptop has a touchscreen but isnt responding to touch. Windows sees the touchscreen but doesnt work.

Is it disabled? There is generally a FN key to activate or deactivate. Also, go into Device Manager and make sure the drivers aren't disabled.

 

[Sleeper PC 2016]

Just now, mankeez said:

You're fucked then.

Contact the seller and ask if he had this problem before selling it to you. If he didn't mention its malfunction, you could try to pry it and get a refund from craigslist, although I doubt you'll get anything.

The touchscreen isnt first priority. He did say that he disabled it but when he reinstalled windows onto a 250 gig ssd, it dont work

[Sleeper PC 2016]

Just now, Ryujin2003 said:

Is it disabled? There is generally a FN key to activate or deactivate. Also, go into Device Manager and make sure the drivers aren't disabled.

 

trying to fix all the drivers first

[mankeez]

7 minutes ago, Sleeper PC 2016 said:

The touchscreen isnt first priority. He did say that he disabled it but when he reinstalled windows onto a 250 gig ssd, it dont work

Then I don't think its a hardware issue. Try drivers, that'll probably fix it.

[Sleeper PC 2016]

2 hours ago, mankeez said:

Then I don't think its a hardware issue. Try drivers, that'll probably fix it.

The drivers are there and windows sees it as a touchscreen. And since the install of windows was russian, i reinstalled it suspecting it was a crack copy and that didnt fix it. Also drivers were fun casue the screen kept goin black on me but i managed to get the kinks out of that. It runs csgo at 100 fps at 1080p low. I think its a hardware issue cause the keyboard isnt working and its scratched up pretty badly. I still bought it because of the powerful hardware.  

[mankeez]

Well I mean you got it for 50 bucks so you can get a new keyboard and mouse and 24" touchscreen monitor. Have the laptop flipped over for better airflow and use it as a normal case. Maybe even buy a USB dock and mount it to your table for OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE

[Sleeper PC 2016]

On 12/29/2017 at 5:26 AM, mankeez said:

Well I mean you got it for 50 bucks so you can get a new keyboard and mouse and 24" touchscreen monitor. Have the laptop flipped over for better airflow and use it as a normal case. Maybe even buy a USB dock and mount it to your table for OPTIMAL PERFORMANCE

yea that could work