Hello all,
I have a 4 yr old Toshiba laptop A25. The touchpad for the pointer started working intermittently. As if it was being somehow turned off, but I checkunder control panel and it is always on. The touchpad works sometimes when I powerup and other times it does not. it got worse happening more often over time. I never know when I power up if I am going to have to use an exernal mouse that day.Lately it is almost always. It is not showing "touchpad off" in control panel ever. Also now the keyboard is starting the same way the touchpad did. Now, every now and then neither the touch pad nor the keyboard will work at all, but if I quit,and wait a while, when I try again the keypad will work,but lately the touchpad never works anymore. I cannot figure out what the deal is.There are no viruses present. I also have tried using the restore disk, but all that did was make me loose all my files. Please help as I cant afford Geek squad with no warranty left.
Thanks!
2007-07-31 07:27:31 · 2 answers · asked by perryinjax 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
Even though I don't THINK this would be causing any of these issues, but check to see how hot the laptop gets while it is running and make sure if all the fans are working properly. Just by audio inspection to see if you can hear them at all. Beyond that if you already did a reload no driver issue most likly isn't the cause of the problem, so any freak software glich is out. In the end it might be hardware that is starting to go and the mouse and keyboard are the first victims. Most likly no the answer you want of course. A USB mouse can prolong it's life a little, maybe a USB keyboard but that be kinda odd and more likly then not annoying for a laptop. Sorry about the so so help, but might not be much you can do besides replacing the hardware at this point.
2007-08-04 00:56:38 · answer #1 · answered by Matthew Penny 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was working in a computer shop a while ago and this same problem happend to some one, we tried everything, then as a last resort we replaced the battery and it started working fine, this might help you.
2016-05-19 00:24:54 · answer #2 · answered by maura 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋