Synaptics Touchpad doesn't work anymore on my Acer Aspire 1690

Hi

I have the following Problem with my Touchpad.

When I first used my Laptop everything was fine. Also my Synaptics
Touchpad worked properly.

Somewhen I bought a USB mouse because a mouse is more comfortable then
a touchpad. For a few dasy I never used the touchpad again, but I know
that the touchpad and the mouse onece worked properly together... so I
could use either one... One day I wanted to use the touchpad again.
AND: It didn't work.

I downloaded the most actual drivers from the Acer webseite. I
installed them, everything seems to be fine, but the touchbad just
doesn't work.

In the hardware configuration are no conflicts displayed, the hardware
is not disabled or something like that. It is shown that the device is
"Ready To Work".

The drivers load on system startup. So that also can't be the
problem...

Did someone had the same problem?

I don't know what to do... Thanks a lot for your help

Roman

 

Try looking in your control panel, MOUSE, then the DEVICE SETTINGS TAB
and see if your device is ENABLED or DISABLED.

 

is the mouse pad not swithed off by (Fn) F7

 

I have the same problem with the bigger one Aspire 1710: for a fe
days usb mouse and touchpad worked properly together, but now th
touchpad is died

When the pc starts without any external mouse the WindowsXp continu
to show the mouse icon accordingly to fact the mouse(touchpad) i
still present, but the pointer is motionless

I deduct this is a common problem of Acer with usb external mouse
:crybaby

 

The most common solution is the FN-F7 combination (activation fo
touchpad). It happened to me after I installed a USB mouse
Nevertheless no it works again...

mfou

 

cool....I was about to take the laptop back to the shop then saw the
post about the Fn F7 thing and everything's fine again.
Thanx a lot

 

I have the same problem with an Acer Aspire 3004. My usb mouse and
touchpad worked together for quite some time. I also installed the
BlueSoleil bluetooth stack. I mostly used the usb mouse so I didn't
realize I had a problem until a month later, so I can't say exactly
when the problem first occured.

The first thing I did was toggle Fn+F7 but that didn't work. I
uninstalled the bluetooth stack, still didn't work. I uninstalled the
Synaptics Pointing Device Driver and reinstalled it, still didn't
work. I booted into SafeMode, still didn't work.

In the control panel under Mouse Properties, there is a tab with the
Synaptics logo labeled Device Settings, but no devices are listed. No
problems were found in Device Manager but under Mice and Other
Pointing Devices only one HID-compliant mouse is listed when the usb
mouse is connected and no devices listed when the usb mouse is
disconnected.

There are no BIOS configurable settings for the touchpad and I tried
Acer's website but it absolutely STINKS!!!

ANY IDEAS (like how to tell if it's a hardware or software problem),
PLEASE?????

 

Am 11.01.2007 15:46 schrieb nobody cares:

Maybe install VMware Player (www.vmware.com/download/player) and try
some OS there?

Or, re-install Windows.

Martin

 

Thanks mate that works.

 

Acer/Synaptics toach pad

To reactivate Synaptics touch pad
Fn and F7 press at the same time work for me thank you for information.
Horodul

 

Hmm

ok guys, i have the same problem and it is not from the fn f7... i checked the device manager and under HID there is a PS/2 touchscreen i dunno how is there coz i dont have one, but still after i uninstall this sh*t my mousepad works just fine, but after each restart it keeps insatlling it ...who knows how to uninstall it once for all ??? I would appreciate any suggestions ...

 

Thanks a lot

Thanks a lot, it worked

 

Thank you very much man, u solve my big problem.

 

i have a acer apsire 5532 and had the same problem. there's a little button left of the power button that starts and stops the touch pad. when the touch pad is disabled this button will be a dark yellow.

 

You solved my prob! YOU are awesome my friend!!

ROSS, I registered an account to tell you how awesome you are for posting this! You solved what I thought would be a "time-to-buy-a-new-laptop" kind of problem! YOU ARE AWESOME FOR TAKING THE TIME TO POST THIS THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU


Your New Biggest Fan,

Dana

 

I'm posting in the hopes I'll help someone with this same problem. I kept on coming back to this site/thread over the last 6 months while trying to help my son reactivate his touchpad on his new ACER laptop. I tried all the suggestions above and none of them worked.

He had added a Microsoft Mobile Memory Mouse 8000 and the mouse worked fine - it was just that when he took it off he couldn't get his touchpad to work again. It's very frustrating trying to remove the mouse driver and navigate around to reactivate the touchpad without use of a mouse or touchpad...but I was doing just that when I happened to open up the laptop quickguide that came with the computer. There I saw a "touchpad toggle" switch in the diagram provided. It is located directly to the left of the "on" button above the keyboard. I clicked it so the orange light went off - and from then on the touchpad worked!

Geek for a day!

 

Oops - I just saw that Ross had already posted this tidbit...and I didn't read it. That will teach me a lesson!

 

Thank you, I have a question, does this suit for Acer Aspire 2000?

 

I am having the same problem!

Everything was fine. I used my touchpad sometimes, and sometimes I used my usb wireless mouse. I had no issues. Then, my daughter cleaned out my system, like she does regularly. (She enjoys doing this as she is in school for computers and works as a computer tech) Anyway, after the last time, I went to play with my touchpad because in the mouse settings, even though I have the box checked to disable touchpad when the mouse is plugged in, I realized that the touchpad was still active. I found that I can hit FN and F7 to disable it, but I should not have to do that as I never had to before. Now I have to do that everytime I turn on my computer! But, trying to doubletap in the upper left hand corner was supposed to bring up something. NOTHING. I want to change the settings like what I want to happen when I tap the lower left corner, etc. It's nowhere on the settings, or in the mouse settings where it was before. You can click in the mouse settings and find the synaptics touchpad driver details and see all the options, so I know they're on my system, but...there's no where to access them, but the system says that its working properly??? ugh. I hope someone knows what is up with this. I would love to fix it. I'm not great with the touchpad, but I still like to use it once in awhile. PlEASE help! Clarification: the touchpad technically works, but the ability to adjust the settings and it's cool functionality are what is missing. It is just a basic, no frills, touchpad now. I used it before, I need to know how to make it work again. ACER IS NO HELP> THEY SAY IT IS A SOFTWARE PROBLEM, AND WANT TO CHARGE HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS TO EVEN LISTEN TO ME.

 

I never got a guide with my Acer Aspire 7741Z. Does anyone know if mine has this toggle thing somewhere else maybe? I don't have any button near my ON button just two lights. One for WIFI and the other one just blinks blue intermittently. But they are not buttons...I checked. I looked at my function buttons and I have one for WIFI, then SLEEP, then DUAL MONITOR, then I'm not sure, then TOUCHPAD ON/OFF then MUTE. This particular touchpad on'off is only to disable the touchpad. My touchpad works, generally speaking, but I can't adjust the multi gesture that I used to be able to as there is no way to access the settings anymore..... Any advice?