Laptop dying? Issues with touchpad

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Originally Posted by GreekGodX

My laptop is about 5 years old now, a Dell Inspiron 8600. Every time I touch the touchpad now there is the system error beeping and chaos happens on my computer screen. Sometimes it dims and brightens the display, disconnects the wireless card, changes language of my keyboard etc. Anybody experience this before? I read up on some other sites and people talked about the motherboard going out. All the computer people please help a brotha out!!

My daughters 2 year old HP laptop was doing something very similar to this. I did a format (she also had a few other problems) with the install disks that came with the laptop - i.e. return it to factory - and that solved the problems. You could just try replacing/updating/re-installing the touchpad drivers and see if that helps.


Ron