OK, basically the touchpad on my laptop is no longer responding when I try to move the cursor or click anything, I have to use my mouse. I was wondering if there was any chance that this could be due to a problem with software which I could fix myself rather than having to send it back to the manufacturer to be repaired.

 

 

 

My laptop is a fugitsu siemens amilo, it runs vista, has 2mb RAM and an intel centrino duo processor. It's about a year and 2 months old. Can anyone help me? If you have any questions, please ask and I'll answer them as quickly as possible.

I'm 95% sure it's a driver issue that could easily be fixed, go to the device manager>mouses and pointing devices and see if the touchpad is there.

You may also have disabled it by accident. This happened to my dad.

You may also have disabled it by accident. This happened to my dad.

Yup, if it happened suddenly that'll most likely be the culprit. A driver issue will usually arise after some sort of software alteration.

Yeah, there is no mention of the touchpad, just 2 instances of 'HID compliant mouse' and 1 of 'PS/2 compatible mouse'. Now that we've found the problem, how do I go about fixing it?

So how do I fix it, I imagine I have to reinstall the driver, how do I do that?

In the device manager there should be a category marked by an yellow exclamation point, and the touch pad should be under it. Right click and see if you can enable it.

I looked and there were no obvious yellow exclamation marks, is there another way i can go about fixing it?

2515?

 

If so I'll check mine when I get home and see if theres a hotkey for it.

 

 

 

Try holding fn and the F5 to 10 buttons and see if it re-enables.

LMAO I must've disabled it when turning the volume up haha. Thanks alot dude was getting worried lol :P

 

 

 

FIXED

Yeah, I did that once on my laptop, while turning down the volume I accidentaly disabled the touchpad, yes I was using the Fn keys