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water spill touchpad killed t42
water spill touchpad killed t42
the laptop had water seep in a bit through the two buttons of the touchpad which made me replace the touchpad assembly since it was dead. i used the old palmrest and old finger print reader ribbon though (since it was pasted than screwed to the palmrest) the new touchpad worked for a while but has died again. Im not sure what happened. Any ideas what to do now?
Re: water spill touchpad killed t42
It is easy really. Just enter the bios and disable Touchpad.
Then just use the Trackpoint
Then just use the Trackpoint

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Re: water spill touchpad killed t42
yeah im using that now getting used to it. its just weird sometimes when i enable touchpad it works sometimes it doesnt. when touchpad is enabled in bios and it happens not to workin windows it takes down the trackpoint too and then i need to disable it in bios to get trackpoint working again.shawross wrote:It is easy really. Just enter the bios and disable Touchpad.
Then just use the Trackpoint
i wonder why its behaving this way even though i replaced the touchpad assembly? something on mobo got shorted?
Re: water spill touchpad killed t42
I had the issue of both trackpoint and Touchpad stops working from time to time in a T43 I've spilled water on a long time ago. Then for some reason, after me swapping the actual pad with another palm rest assembly coming from a dead T41p, that problem never happens again for both of them! So I guess you can try to reseat the pad from the palm rest assembly?
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Re: water spill touchpad killed t42
its working fine now. AC adaptor was faulty.kfzhu1229 wrote:I had the issue of both trackpoint and Touchpad stops working from time to time in a T43 I've spilled water on a long time ago. Then for some reason, after me swapping the actual pad with another palm rest assembly coming from a dead T41p, that problem never happens again for both of them! So I guess you can try to reseat the pad from the palm rest assembly?
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Re: water spill touchpad killed t42
Cause and Effect diagnosis and I have witnessed laptops being discarded when people get it wrong.
Nice to hear it is sorted.
Nice to hear it is sorted.
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