The touchpad on this thing is so goofy, it makes me want to throw the entire laptop up against the wall!! The cursor freezes, disappears, then jumps around by itself. I've gone through the settings, following the instructions to try to adjust these things, but to no avail. Have reset the settings to all the original defaults and it's worse than ever. HELP ME!!!

There's one possibility that may or may not be a fix... interference from cordless phones can make your cursor do very strange things. If there's a cordless phone around, move it away from the laptop and see if that helps. Cleaning your touchpad with a damp cloth may also help.. just a speck of dirt or dust can throw things off. You might try adjusting the sensitivity on your touchpad (through control panel). If these suggestions don't at least help, try Gateway's support site. Good luck.

The reason this is happening is that as you are typing; you're resting some weight on the thin plastic above the touchpad...which then makes contact and registers a 'click'; thus moving your cursor around. Or you're brushing your thumb against it when hitting the space key.

Some laptops are more susceptible to this than others. Some more modern laptops come with a button to turn the touchpad off to solve this very problem.

The only thing you can do about this is to disable the touchpad through the touchpad driver (down by the clock, usually) and use a mouse instead. Depending on how you use your laptop, this will be more or less inconvenient- if your laptop never leaves the desk; disable the touchpad and use a mouse...no problem. If you go mobile a lot, you'll have to enable and disable the touchpad all the time.

The other thing you can do is adapt your typing style so you don't put any weight on anything but the key you're pressing. This is quite difficult and uncomfortable, and is not recommended for long sessions.

REDOWNLOAD/REINSTALL THE TOUCHPAD DRIVERS SOMETIMES PEOPLE ACCIDENTLY DELETE SOMETHING IMPORTANT OR A FILE GETS MISPLACED OR THE COMPUTER MESSES UP SOMETIMES.... NOT SAYING ANY OF THESE ARE THE CASE BUT IT COULD BE.

Think you might have (and it's very easy to do when you're typing) touched the touchpad as you're typing- which was probably why the cursor got repositioned. Without knowing the features on your ASUS, I'd look for Windows (assuming it's the OS) Control Panel and Mouse Controls - there usually is something that can be adjusted as to what qualifies as a tap (say, a really light tap versus a hard tap) and fiddle with it. You should be able to get it to work to your liking.

Hi appoddar1988,

I see you need drivers for your Lenovo G430.

what type of drivers do you need? you mentioned that you need touchpad Drivers, what issue are you experiencing with you Touchpad?

You can get the drivers from this link .

But if you are experiencing Jumping cursor issue then you do not need to reinstall your touchpad drivers you try installing touch freeze on your system this actually helps with the jumping cursor issues in th Lenovo G series Laptop.

Just google Touch Freeze you should see links where you can download Touch freeze for free.


I hope this helps.

Have a nice day,

mvincentc

Could be a virus run a system scan.

The reason this is happening is that as you are typing; you're resting some weight on the thin plastic above the touchpad...which then makes contact and registers a 'click'; thus moving your cursor around. Or you're brushing your thumb against it when hitting the space key.

Some laptops are more susceptible to this than others. Some more modern laptops come with a button to turn the touchpad off to solve this very problem.

The only thing you can do about this is to disable the touchpad through the touchpad driver (down by the clock, usually) and use a mouse instead. Depending on how you use your laptop, this will be more or less inconvenient- if your laptop never leaves the desk; disable the touchpad and use a mouse...no problem. If you go mobile a lot, you'll have to enable and disable the touchpad all the time.

The other thing you can do is adapt your typing style so you don't put any weight on anything but the key you're pressing. This is quite difficult and uncomfortable, and is not recommended for long sessions.

since you laptop mouse is touchpad. when you starts typing, your finger(hands) touches the touchpad which throw the cursor away. Make sure, while typing your hands does not touch the touchpad of the laptop.

Are you using windows vista? If so, that is a common problem with vista. The reason is the driver for the touchpad. Your palm may brush up against the touchpad while you are typing which moves the cursor all around. You can open up the properties for the touchpad (in control panel or by right clicking the icon next to the clock that corresponds to the touchpad and selecting properties), and play around with the sensitivity and palmtouch options in it as well as make sure you have the most up to date drivers available if you are using vista. Oh and one more thing, please give this solution a fixya rating. Thanks!

Sounds like a driver issue. My touchpad goes crazy sometimes and I have to reboot, especially when it gets a little wet on the touchpad.