Thanks Dave, that has worked for me in the past too. It looks like the updated driver didn't install correctly and the driver was still reporting "mouse" instead of alps. I just reinstalled it again and this time it looks like it took. We'll see how long it works this time.
--- On Wed, 8/20/08, David Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: David Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [NF] Touchpad problems To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 9:07 AM I have good luck with this sort of issue by going to the device manager, uninstalling the device, then have windows look for and reload the device. About 90% of the time it fixes the problems, and it's easy :) David Smith Systems Administrator Doan Family of Dealerships (585) 352-6600 ext.1730 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.upstatedigitools.com -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Madigan Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 12:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NF] Touchpad problems Thanks, that's a good idea. --- On Tue, 8/19/08, Kevin Cully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Kevin Cully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [NF] Touchpad problems To: [email protected] Date: Tuesday, August 19, 2008, 8:42 PM Try booting with a LiveCD of some Linux distro and see if the behavior is still there. If it is, it might be a hardware issue. If it isn't then ... -Kevin CULLY Technologies, LLC Michael Madigan wrote: > All of a sudden my Alps touchpad on my Dell Inspiron 9200 is acting flakey. It acts like there is some cpu-intensive program running in the background, but there isn't. The CPU shows low use. The event log doesn't show any errors either. > > As I move the mouse, it moves in a herky-jerky manner. I've tried updating the driver, setting the driver settings back to default, and closing other background processes. > > Rebooting fixes the problems most of the time, but not always. > > Does anyone know if there were some windows updates that are affecting > the Alps touchpads? I can't seem to see anything on Google about this. > > I'm assuming it's software, because it works fine when it works. It's almost as if some software is stepping on it, but I've run spyware programs on the system and there are no known problems. > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
