Gateway laptop touchpad problems? new with Vista?

Question

I had to return a new Gateway laptop with Vista because the touchpad was unreliable. It was jerky, very hard to control direction, pressure needed kept changing. I talked to Gateway tech support for an hour and tried everything. I took it back to the retailer to swap it for another. This second one has the same problems! although not so bad.

This is my fifth laptop and I only use the touchpads, so I'm adept. Have I run into an isolated problem, or have others encountered the same thing?

Answer 1

Update the drivers for the touchpad. Synaptic drivers usually remedy the issues you have with a touchpad. Check with the Gateway site to be sure of which drivers to download.

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Answer 2

a query may well be at any time does it supply a single beep to show that the contraptions on the motherboard are all ok. No beep and you have a hardware difficulty struggling with what's referred to as the BIOS from loading. Fraid it extremely is severe. in case you had reported the definitely type i'm going to have gave the impression to be certain if gateway's of that type are having some significant difficulty. huge agencies are and one, HP did a extensive bear in mind of an high priced gadget that overheated badly because of defective aspects. you should no longer enable this to warmth up, its very undesirable for the aspects, notably the CPU. the area you have got here upon ,of the warmth won't be suitable. there is the swap on of the laptop and the load of vista. the two are distinctive and this sounds like an element failure which you would be able to no longer fix.