Scroll-wheel disabled on notebook

Hi,

I've recently purchased a new ROWA notebook which unfortunately came with
severely lacking instructions and support from the vendor. I've been unable
to find much information about it online and was hoping someone might be
able to offer a generic solution to my problem.

Problem is, that the touchpad's included scroll-wheel has no effect
whatsoever. Likewise, plugging in a mouse (and installing drivers) results
in the mouse's scroll-wheel not working either - even in instances where the
mouse has configurable thumb-buttons which work fine. Every single piece of
software steadfastly refuses to acknowledge attempted scrolling via mouse or
the touchpad scroller.

Can anyone offer any solutions on how to activate this seemingly simple
function?

 

Are you running Windows 95? W95 doesn't have scrollwheel support.
You can install an emulator with the MS Wheel mouse driver
<http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/m...spx?prod=m_wm09&os=95&lang=en&driverVersion=>

 

<http://www.microsoft.com/hardware/mouseandkeyboard/DownloadResult.aspx?prod
=m_wm09&os=95&lang=en&driverVersion=>

Nope. New Centrino notebook running on XP.

 

Look in device manager and see if you can identify the manufacturer of the
touchpad, and if so download their reference drivers. Ditto for your mouse
vendor only you should be able to read their name off the mouse.