Touchpad freezes my touchpad has suddenly started to stick it moves then freezes. I have read on other forums to remove battery hold down power key then reinsert battery this has done nothing what can i do ???????

Unplug the AC adapter from the notebook PC.
Remove the battery from the notebook battery compartment.
Disconnect any external devices or peripherals connected to the notebook. Press and hold down the power button for about 15 seconds
After this ,Turn ON the Notebook and install latest and touchpad drivers

Why does it not have a touchpad? Maybe the touchpad driver is not installed or the touchpad has been disabled or is toggled off.

First off, you can always use a usb mouse instead of the point stick.

Click Start/Control Panel and look for the Mouse and open it to check the mouse properties. Make sure you don't have the touchpad disabled.

Some models will allow you to toggle the touchpad on or off by clicking on the button that is located at the top of the touch pad in the middle.

Some models will allow you to toggle the touchpad by tapping twice in the upper left hand corner of the touchpad.

Some models will require a keystroke to toggle the touchpad. Press and Hold the ALT or FN function key located at the lower left portion of the keyboard, then hit the key that toggles the touchpad. The correct key to hit will have the icon of a finger pointing at a square that represents the touchpad.

Try downloading and installing the touchpad driver.

Get online and got to www.google.com In the google search box type: "IBM Support" or "Lenovo Support" (without the quotes and put your manufacturer name before Support). Look for downloads and drivers. Enter your model number and operating system when requested. Download and install the Touchpad drivers.

Make sure that you are not placing the hand on the touchpad while typing.... This might be due to the drivers issue with the touchpad.. Try to unistall the drivers of touchpad from the device manager.. Then install a fresh copy from the dell website(www.support.acer.com).. If the issue is yet to be fixed please contact Acer to replace the touchpad....

Sounds like their might be some dirt underneath the surface of the trackpad exerting pressure causing it to move. Try turning down the sensitivity, do this under mouse in Control Panel.

I've had to deal with this problem on a number of laptops, not just Dells, although i must say that i've seen more Dell laptops having this problem though. The reason is simple, the wires relaying the input devices (keyboard and touch pad) to the motherboard of the laptop were either designed too frail, or the engineers didn't figure that putting them there would cause them to rub ever so slightly against the metal casing and will cause them to break up after a while. So basically when it's not working it's cause the wires and just moved in a way where they are not contacting, and when you hit hard enough, the wires touch and give the contact needed to work. And of course moving and shaking the laptop cause the wires to move ever so slightly also and cause them to start and stop contacting, just like flickering and on/off switch over and over. So if it is still under warranty, send it back fast before it's too late, as Dell has many service points around the world, and you can ship it to them via a courrier like Purolator or UPS just about all around the world also, so even if you did move out of country you can still get them to honor their warranty and would be a shame to have to scrap a laptop just cause the warranty passed out.

Press fn+f9, this is a mode for locking and unlockig touchpad

Hmm give this method a try. Turn off computer remove AC power adapter. Remove the battery and press the power button for 30 seconds continuously. This removes the static from the system. This process is called as Power drain. This works in most of the cases. Good Luck !!!

It's possible that the laptop is stuck thinking it should be resuming from standby but cannot find the data in memory. Remove the battery, unplug the power cord, and hold down the power button for at least 10 seconds. Then plug JUST the power cord back in and try to boot the system. If you still get no response then it's possible that one of your RAM sticks is going bad. With the battery and power cord removed try removing both sticks of RAM. Then try to boot the system again with only the power cord in use and no RAM installed. See if you get some sort of response from the BIOS. Hold down the power button to turn the computer off again, remove the power cord, and then try booting the system with just one of the memory sticks installed. If you can isolate one of the sticks as causing the failed boot, then that stick is most likely faulty.

If it's frozen so that nothing gives you a menu, etc., I suspect the only option is to remove the battery and pull the power plug. That will ALWAYS give you a cold reboot. It's not the way you'd like to shut down, but it sounds like you have no choice.