Had this problem for around 6 months, today it annoyed me so much I decided to try and get it sorted.
What happens?
- The touchpad works for around 2 - 3 hours, as it normally would.
- Every 2-3 hours the touchpad starts playing up, if I move down for example it will just wiggle randomly on the screen. It just moves in random directions.
- When it's playing up, I have noticed if I hover my finger about 1 cm above the touchpad it will also move the cursor randomly.
The weird temporary fix
- To stop this happening I have to rotate my laptop by 90^o so that the screen is flat with my desk and the keyboards going into the air for about 4-5 seconds and then when I put the laptop down it doesn't do it any more.
Fixes I have tried:
- Reinstalling ELAN pointing device
- Reinstalling Lenovo's power management utility
So the questions I have are:
- What could this be?
- Is it a hardware problem?
- Are there any fixes?
What happens?
- The touchpad works for around 2 - 3 hours, as it normally would.
- Every 2-3 hours the touchpad starts playing up, if I move down for example it will just wiggle randomly on the screen. It just moves in random directions.
- When it's playing up, I have noticed if I hover my finger about 1 cm above the touchpad it will also move the cursor randomly.
The weird temporary fix
- To stop this happening I have to rotate my laptop by 90^o so that the screen is flat with my desk and the keyboards going into the air for about 4-5 seconds and then when I put the laptop down it doesn't do it any more.
Fixes I have tried:
- Reinstalling ELAN pointing device
- Reinstalling Lenovo's power management utility
So the questions I have are:
- What could this be?
- Is it a hardware problem?
- Are there any fixes?