Mouse pad been working fine, but now not working on acer aspire 5732Z i had for christmas. can i fix or will i have to return to shop?

Find out what is causing it to overheat. You'll have to take the laptop apart to fix the problem.

Three causes of overheatting.

1) Dust - Dust inside the laptop. Dust clogging the fans and vents. Dust around the cpu and heatsink. Take a can of compressed air and blow out the dust.

2). A fan not working. Replace the fan.

3). The Thermal Paste around the CPU and Heatsink has dried up or is too thin to keep the unit cool. Put on a fresh coat of Thermal Paste.

You could just purchase a Laptop Cooling Pad that has 3 fans on it, and plugs into the usb port of the laptop and the laptop sits on it to keep cool. They are less than $20 at Tiger Direct. When the site comes up just type: Laptop Cooling Pad in the white search box at the top of the webpage then click GO. Sort the returned results by Price Low to High.

http://www.tigerdirect.com


Below is a link to one I use for repairs when I get a hot laptop for $12.99

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1879782&CatId=3486

go to this link might help...

Try and restore the PC to an earlier restore point. open control panel> restore /back and choose the best point- date of installation.
If there is no result then there can be hardware issues, dry wipe the mouse touch pads.
If not use an external mouse - usb type- or a wireless type is the best option.

Try reinstalling the drivers for the touchpad. They could be corrupted or not there at all.

Yes, there is a button right at the top with a picture of a hand. Sort of a pointing finger action. That will enable and disable touchpad. It is near the power button I believe

There is sometimes a switch to disable the built in mouse/trackpad when using an external mouse, you can also check mouse properties in control panel

First thing to try to uinstall and reinstall the software for your touchpad. Go to Acer and get the latest drivers and or software. Sometimes, just removing the driver and letting windows find it again in device manager is enough to fix it. hopes this helps.

Normally though. keyboard and touchpad are seperate entities. which made me think of the motherboard as that is the only constant between the 2 but, if your touchpad is buggy maybe it is causing issues elsewhere.

On Acer 5732Z there is a button that disables the touch pad next to the power button [on the left]. The icon is a rectangle with a hand pointing on it.
press the button to toggle the touch pad on and off.

There will be a button above the touch pad or using function key to disable it. try both and find out which is the prob. Some drivers may not installed properly. Run the touchpad driver in administrator mode and if you are having the xp driver set to xp sp3 compatible mode.

you may wish to go to the acer website and look up that model... download the driver for the touchpad and buttons again. reinstall that and see if it fixes the issue

Robert