Caraboo Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 (if this is in the wrong topic feel free to move it and sorry!) Oh BOY oh BOY my laptop decided to fart again. To it's credit, it hasn't been majorly obnoxious to use once I figured out its original main problem with internet connectivity (the drivers just needed to be updated) but, literally just tonight, my touchpad stopped working 100% properly. It's highlighting, dragging, and clicking on things while I'm simply swiping though pages, and sometimes fairly light pressure on the laptop itself causes it to highlight and do all that stuff. I tried updating the touchpad drivers. Drivers were up to date. I tried turning the touchpad off and on again. Didn't fix it. I messed with sensitivity, even turned off 'tap to click' and it still did it. As a last resort, I decided I would turn on the wayback machine and hop back one driver update to see if that would fix it. Did the update, restarted my laptop, aaand... Suddenly, the entire touchpad driver was on. Couldn't do anything to fix it. While the touchpad worked, it was very sluggish and slow. I went onto the website, re-downloaded the proper driver, restarted, and it seemed fixed, but it continues to occasionally click and highlight at random. Tap to click is still off, too! My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 3537. I honestly have no idea what happened to cause this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cepheus Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Hmmm... Seems like you already tried everything I would have told you to try... But what exactly did did you do when the Touchpad stopped working properly? and don't say "nothing"! - You must have done something, because you realised something was suddenly wrong! although... NO ONE ever knows what causes these problems - In the end we can see where the problem is/was - but HOW it happenend, no one knows... ever... "This and this just happenend while I was working on my PC" - "Ok, what exactly did you do when the problem occured?" - "Nothing! it just happenend" - "You JUST said you were WORKING - so what. did. you. do?" however, on the Dell-Website there is a diagnostics tool... but you can't select TouchPAD - only TouchSCREEN among all the other things... (it says it takes about 10-40 minutes depending if it's a quick scan or a full-scan) If you want to try this I just googled "Dell Inspiron 3537 Touchpad" and it was the first or second entry Saying "Support for 3537" I don't like Touchpads in general... but shouldn't there be like a configuration menu for it - like for sensitivity and stuff? Maybe something screwed up in there - however I guess this would have been one of the first things you checked :/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueMoonIceCream Posted November 12, 2016 Share Posted November 12, 2016 Last resort would be to buy an external mouse >-> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caraboo Posted November 12, 2016 Author Share Posted November 12, 2016 Hmmm... Seems like you already tried everything I would have told you to try... But what exactly did did you do when the Touchpad stopped working properly? and don't say "nothing"! - You must have done something, because you realised something was suddenly wrong! although... NO ONE ever knows what causes these problems - In the end we can see where the problem is/was - but HOW it happenend, no one knows... ever... "This and this just happenend while I was working on my PC" - "Ok, what exactly did you do when the problem occured?" - "Nothing! it just happenend" - "You JUST said you were WORKING - so what. did. you. do?" however, on the Dell-Website there is a diagnostics tool... but you can't select TouchPAD - only TouchSCREEN among all the other things... (it says it takes about 10-40 minutes depending if it's a quick scan or a full-scan) If you want to try this I just googled "Dell Inspiron 3537 Touchpad" and it was the first or second entry Saying "Support for 3537" I don't like Touchpads in general... but shouldn't there be like a configuration menu for it - like for sensitivity and stuff? Maybe something screwed up in there - however I guess this would have been one of the first things you checked :/ Well I noticed it happen as I was on Skype, typing something back. The cursor kept jumping between letters, highlighting random text, and clicking off the text box at random. Confused, I went back on Youtube, where it all just went to heck, highlighting stuff, clicking when I didn't mean to and creating 20 new tabs, etc. I don't know, I had been drinking a smoothie and a couple of droplets got onto the laptop. I dried them up, but I'm worried the water may have slipped through the keyboard and messed something up. But it didn't happen right away either. After I had dried the water up, I doodled something on SAI, and surfed the web without issue. :/ While I wasn't the biggest fan of touchpads either, I sort of got used to this, as this is more my personal room laptop and I don't have a proper desk, and just use it at my bed, hence why a mouse is sort of not idea for this whole situation. I draw sitting crouched over enough, I don't want to jank my posture having to do the same while using a mouse any more than I have to while using this, y'know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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