Help please!

I have a sony vaio notebook which I bought in 2002. I just reinstalled it completely because it was getting slow. Everything went fine. I then downloaded all the updates since 2002 from the sony website. After installing software download taxi and downloading in there all the new softwares, my touchpad stopped working. I pursued setting up all the softwares, using the jogdial system (which I hate), in the hope that one of the softwares would solve the touchpad problem. None does. The status now is that when I turn off my computer and turn it on again, the touchpad works for a few seconds / minutes, then freezes completely. Hopeless. I am at loss...

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much in advance to any good samaritan.

Tanugius

Hi did

You get a solution to this problem? I am having the same problem
shawn.bennett@biam.boi.ie

This is answer that I found at http://ubuntuforums.org/ and it solved this problem:

Hi,

Regarding the touchpad not working on an Acer 5100, please try the following:

Press 'Fn' and 'F7' keys together and this should alternate between turning the touchpad on and off.

Cheers,


Dan

the SZ series is notrious for having a crappy trackpad - I struggled with mine for years - sent it back to Sony and they said that I needed a new motherboard.

Yeah, right... to fix the track pad.

Well I saved the $699 - and did the black tape fix, and smooth sailing since.

http://doube.org/sztp.html

I am hitting all the forums Sony, so hope you read this. This is the only recourse I have for you having tried to jack me for 700 dollars.

This computer is finally operating properly after years. I so wish I had done this earlier. You made me reinstall my system software, all of my software, send the computer in for days - costing me days of downtime - and then refuse to fix a computer that is under warranty -

You tell me that you need to replace the heat sink, mohterboard, fan, and charge me more than the unit is worth to fix your faulty hardware.

Good times.