I turned off the system, let it cool, and did not have the problem again until several months later when it began again. Once, when I was traveling without the fan, the erratic touchpad problem began.

My touchpad has worked fine for a couple years, and I have always used a cooling fan pad device under my laptop to prevent overheating. I too, like many Inspiron 1525 owners, have the touchpad problem. But if it does move normally, we know that the problem is somewhere in Windows, and we can certainly fix it.Įdited by The Admiral, 09 November 2008 - 11:32 AM. If not, we may be looking at a hardware issue. We don't actually want to run any tests, all we want to do is move the cursor using the touch pad. It will ask you if you want to run the remaining memory tests, press N for No, and it will get you into the diagnostic partition, which is a grey window on a blue screen. Press Y for Yes, and it will run a couple more tests. You'll see some color bars show up on the screen, and it will ask you if you saw the bars. Some tests are going to start on a blue screen.

When you see a message on the screen that says ' Diagnostic boot selected,' you can let go of the key. Just in case that isn't clear, I want you to hold down the key, then press the power button. Then turn it back on while holding down the blue key. We're going to be running a test outside of Windows, so you may want to print these instructions out for your reference by finding the Options button under the New Topic button, and selecting Print this Topic.įirst, please turn your laptop off. I want to see if your problem only happens in Windows. Hi Emilee, and welcome to Geeks to Go! Sorry to hear about your touchpad problems. Thanks for the help, in advance.Įdited by emileeln08, 08 November 2008 - 11:46 PM. What do I do? It's brand new and it's practically my life! I'm upset. It doesn't show that there is any activity on the touchpad, but whenever I press the left- and right-clicker buttons, it shows that they are working. There's a little icon down in the tray at the bottom right of my screen that shows the touchpad activity, as well as the left- and right-clicker buttons. I tried re-installing the driver for the touchpad from the Dell website, but it didn't work either. Now, I haven't dropped it or anything.so I really don't think it's my fault. So I know it's a problem with the touchpad.

I plugged the USB mouse from my desktop computer into it, and IT'S working just fine. I restarted THREE times, but there was no change. But the cursor was still frozen whenever it rebooted. I restarted, thinking that maybe my computer had just been on too long and that it needed a reboot. A few minutes after that, it COMPLETELY stopped working. Whenever I logged onto my computer this evening, I noticed that my mouse cursor was acting very sluggish. Everything has been running perfectly.until today. I recently purchased a Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop in August.

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