Synaptics touchpad suddenly stopped working
 

I have a new Acer Aspire 1670 laptop which has worked fine for the past few weeks. However, I turned it on this morning (it worked fine last night) to find that my touchpad no longer works.

I don't feel this is a hardware issue in the sense that the touchpad has become unplugged from the internal PS/2 port, because the touchpad works for about 3-4 seconds after I log onto Windows/when the desktop loads up. That's the only time it works, it doesn't even work at the welcome/logon screen.

After those 3-4 seconds, something obviously happens that's preventing it from working.

I thought it might be my Wacom Graphire II graphics tablet, which is plugged in via USB 2. However, my touchpad and tablet have worked fine together for the past few weeks and have never caused any problems.

I unplugged the tablet, and uninstalled the tablet and touchpad drivers. I then rebooted, and - navigating around with the keyboard - reinstalled the touchpad drivers and rebooted. It still won't work.

Any ideas?

Re: Synaptics touchpad suddenly stopped working
 

Maybe something disables it.. try to enable it by pressing the "Fn" key and "F7".

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Thank you! I had a similar problem and this solved it! You kick ass. :mrgreen:

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Thank you guys,..
I also had a similar problem and did a lot of re-installing of drivers b4 I came across this solution....
I "registered" in this site just to thank you guys for the post!!!!!
Merry Christmas and a Happy new year to everyone.....

Re: Synaptics touchpad suddenly stopped working
 

Just the answear I was looking for.

Thanks :)

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GEEZE. It did not say disabled in the control panel for the touchpad. It said enables. I even tried to disable and re-enable it. tried different versions of drivers. The only way I knew it WAS softare was when I was reinstalling the driver for the seconds that it just completed putting the driver on the pad would work. Then freeze again.
Without finding this post I would have never known about that fn+f7 command.
and again, it said enabled in the Synaptics software.
THANKS

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(I felt compelled enough to regesture to this site to leave a comment)

OMG, THANKS a million!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU. i was sooo dreading having to send my laptop back for repairs. i rolled back drivers, uninstalled reinstalled (with and w/o usb mouse in use) and even eventually reformatted my computer (partly b/c of that and linux problems) and i was about 2 minuts away from opening my computer when i saw FN F7.. THANKS!!!!

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Thanks a lot Belama dude! I was about to send my laptop 1st thing in the morning for repair when i got the chance to browse on your bright suggestion! I tried every possible way as well to get the touchpad up and running like reformatting the system drive, reinstalling & updating the driver, changing the synaptics setting, disabling and enabling it on the device manager menu, etc... but nothing worked until i tried your "Fn + F7" idea! It saved me some bucks dude! Thanks a million!

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THANK YOU SO MUCH BELAMA! I was going to send in my laptop for repairs

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Hey I just registered to say thank you so much. Fn + f7. Doh! Why is it next to the mute button :-/