Toshiba Satellite keyboard and touchpad don't work

[catalyst009]

Hello,

Strange problem, I wonder if any of you have come across this. I've got a friend with a Toshiba L305D-S5934. Occasionally the touchpad and keyboard become completely inoperable while the laptop is in use (a USB mouse will work, however). Oddly enough though, if you let the laptop hibernate, after it "thaws" the keyboard works again.

Laptop has been restored to a previous save, no dice. Device drivers have been replaced and reinstalled, registry has been cleaned... I'm stumped and looking to avoid completely reinstalling Vista.

Thoughts?

 

[Sakafi]

See if this works: Here is the fix for the keyboard malfunction:
1- Turn off computer, disconnect the power cord, remove the battery.
2- Press the Power On button for 10 seconds
3- Replace battery and/or connect power cord.
4- Turn On computer + immediately press F2 key repeatedly
5- Press F9 then press Enter
6- Press F10 then press Enter

Hope I helped!


Thanks very much ! It worked for me also
Lun

 

[tellitlikeitis]

i just uninstalled the elan driver in device manager then reinstalled it again and touchpad works fine in windows 10 which i upgraded from windows 8.1 , hope this helps

 

[Jerry2209910]

Hello,

Strange problem, I wonder if any of you have come across this. I've got a friend with a Toshiba L305D-S5934. Occasionally the touchpad and keyboard become completely inoperable while the laptop is in use (a USB mouse will work, however). Oddly enough though, if you let the laptop hibernate, after it "thaws" the keyboard works again.

Laptop has been restored to a previous save, no dice. Device drivers have been replaced and reinstalled, registry has been cleaned... I'm stumped and looking to avoid completely reinstalling Vista.

Thoughts?

try the mouse enable disable function kkey at the top of the keyboard. it is the second button from the right. you don't press the function key.

On my Satellite L875D-s7332, it is the F5 key. It worked for me. Thanks.

 

[Shawk33]

I had a problem where my touchpad only worked in the log in screen and worked for about a minute after logging in then stops working until i go back to the log in screen. This happened right after i downloaded windows 8.1 from my new windows 8 installed laptop. The bigger problem- i was unable to refresh, reset or go back in time on my computer no matter what technique i tried (always got an error message and it would not work, i was even unable to install windows updates). After many weeks of geeksquad and toshiba trying to convince me it was the f5 key (clearly it was not after trying about half a million times) I was finally able to get a new copy of 8.1 and put it on a dvd and completely reinstalled from that. After the reinstallation everything works like it was brand new.. hopefully this helps.

 

[Loanie]

Hello,

Strange problem, I wonder if any of you have come across this. I've got a friend with a Toshiba L305D-S5934. Occasionally the touchpad and keyboard become completely inoperable while the laptop is in use (a USB mouse will work, however). Oddly enough though, if you let the laptop hibernate, after it "thaws" the keyboard works again.

Laptop has been restored to a previous save, no dice. Device drivers have been replaced and reinstalled, registry has been cleaned... I'm stumped and looking to avoid completely reinstalling Vista.

Thoughts?

 

[Loanie]

i have a toshiba satellite E45t-B4300. Had the same problem with the touch pad not working.only worked when i use a mouse. on your keypad..there's F1-F10 button, to unlock the touchpad, mines was F5. hope this helps.

 

[Loanie]

http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Keyboards-Touchpads-Knowledge/How-do-I-change-my-touchpad-settings-and-features-on-Window-8/ta-p/426593

please watch video

 

[Loanie]

I have a Toshiba Satellite E45t-A4300 laptop and had keyboard and touchpad problems identical to everyone else after the recent system update. I called Toshiba customer support which provided no help so I did some Googling and ended up doing a system restore to before the update. That fixed my keyboard problem but now my laptop is having an array of troubling issues. First of all, Chrome will not open by clicking on the icon, but it will open if I right click and select 'New window'. Secondly, and most troubling, is that no Microsoft Office applications will open. Also, my F keys only work if I press the Fn key while pressing them now. Does anyone have any idea what is going on or how I can fix this? Classes start tomorrow for me and this is very concerning.

 

[Loanie]

http://forums.toshiba.com/t5/Keyboards-Touchpads-Knowledge/How-do-I-change-my-touchpad-settings-and-features-on-Window-8/ta-p/426593

 

[Beniam Tedla]

thanks lun it works but every time i use my laptop (Toshiba satellite Model: C660D) i have to repeat the process, is there a permanent solution. and what is causing the problem. also i have experienced this for over 4 weeks a while back i restored my laptop to factory default and the problem was gone but in 2 weeks time it returned
WHY!!!!! it's so frustrating.

 

[rahnpreston]

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Lunatasian said:
See if this works: Here is the fix for the keyboard malfunction:
1- Turn off computer, disconnect the power cord, remove the battery.
2- Press the Power On button for 10 seconds
3- Replace battery and/or connect power cord.
4- Turn On computer + immediately press F2 key repeatedly
5- Press F9 then press Enter
6- Press F10 then press Enter

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Worked for me. Thank you!!

 

[Ken_16]

Strange problem, I wonder if any of you have come across this. I've got a friend with a Toshiba L305D-S5934. Occasionally the touchpad and keyboard become completely inoperable while the laptop is in use (a USB mouse will work, however). Oddly enough though, if you let the laptop hibernate, after it "thaws" the keyboard works again.

Laptop has been restored to a previous save, no dice. Device drivers have been replaced and reinstalled, registry has been cleaned... I'm stumped and looking to avoid completely reinstalling Vista.

Thoughts?

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Hello, it is a problem with the F5 key - switch off, reboot, press F5 should work

 

[Ali_114]

See if this works: Here is the fix for the keyboard malfunction:
1- Turn off computer, disconnect the power cord, remove the battery.
2- Press the Power On button for 10 seconds
3- Replace battery and/or connect power cord.
4- Turn On computer + immediately press F2 key repeatedly
5- Press F9 then press Enter
6- Press F10 then press Enter

Hope I helped!
Lun

Thanks it's work like charm

 

[Daniel_204]

See if this works: Here is the fix for the keyboard malfunction:
1- Turn off computer, disconnect the power cord, remove the battery.
2- Press the Power On button for 10 seconds
3- Replace battery and/or connect power cord.
4- Turn On computer + immediately press F2 key repeatedly
5- Press F9 then press Enter
6- Press F10 then press Enter

Hope I helped!
Lun

Life saver!! Thank you!!

 

[Rus Anne]

Hi Catalyst009,

I too have a problem with a Toshiba Satellite laptop. It is a slightly different model. (L305D-S5974)

I was in the process of projecting the display onto a wide screen tv. I hit the windows option "Display from Projector only". When I did that I couldn't see the mouse anymore on the screen. Looked on the widescreen tv and no mouse either. tried a hard reboot. And like you only way the pointer will work is with an external mouse. Touch pad don't work anymore.

I tried: Scan Disk option, Repairing Driver, Reinstalling Driver, Restore point also, Device hardware restore under F8 Diagnostic Tools and finally factory restore since I had no data i cared about. After it restored to factory out of box. Touch pad still didn't work. So I'm in the same boot now. Still looking for a solution. Berly started today 7/3/2012. I have Windows 7 though.

Did you ever find a solution to the mouse pad issue? Noticed you voiced your complaint in 2010.

Michael

 

[Rus Anne]

There is a pinhole on back of base of laptop. Use small object like staple to reset and the keyboard began working.

 

[cubesptc]

I have face the same problem in Toshiba satellite pro A300. I install windows 7 and update the windows first time and turn off automatic update it solve the problem for me. the following driver were updated:

Toshiba x86 ACPI-Compliment value added logical and general purpose devices
Intel corporation display-mobile intel(R) 965 Express chipset family
o2micro- sciadapter-02Micro Integrated MS/MSPRO controller
windows update agent

 

[gweiss]

Hi Catalyst009,

I too have a problem with a Toshiba Satellite laptop. It is a slightly different model. (L305D-S5974)

I was in the process of projecting the display onto a wide screen tv. I hit the windows option "Display from Projector only". When I did that I couldn't see the mouse anymore on the screen. Looked on the widescreen tv and no mouse either. tried a hard reboot. And like you only way the pointer will work is with an external mouse. Touch pad don't work anymore.

I tried: Scan Disk option, Repairing Driver, Reinstalling Driver, Restore point also, Device hardware restore under F8 Diagnostic Tools and finally factory restore since I had no data i cared about. After it restored to factory out of box. Touch pad still didn't work. So I'm in the same boot now. Still looking for a solution. Berly started today 7/3/2012. I have Windows 7 though.

Did you ever find a solution to the mouse pad issue? Noticed you voiced your complaint in 2010.

Michael
Try FN key and F5 at the same time.

Try FN and f5 keys at same time

FN and f5 keys were an immediate fix on my Toshiba Satellite L75D-A7283.

Being such an old post, it's really wonderful that one can still google and find something so relevant these years later. Aren't search engines great??

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH!! It is really appreciated - you have saved my sanity.... I hope you can still find this note of thanks.

Have a great one everybody!!

 

[JLemon314]

See if this works: Here is the fix for the keyboard malfunction:
1- Turn off computer, disconnect the power cord, remove the battery.
2- Press the Power On button for 10 seconds
3- Replace battery and/or connect power cord.
4- Turn On computer + immediately press F2 key repeatedly
5- Press F9 then press Enter
6- Press F10 then press Enter

Hope I helped!
Lun

I have a Toshiba Satellite S55. The keyboard became unresponsive and the two track pad buttons quit working. This solution worked for me as well. Thank you!

 

[Steve_165]

See if this works: Here is the fix for the keyboard malfunction:
1- Turn off computer, disconnect the power cord, remove the battery.
2- Press the Power On button for 10 seconds
3- Replace battery and/or connect power cord.
4- Turn On computer + immediately press F2 key repeatedly
5- Press F9 then press Enter
6- Press F10 then press Enter

Hope I helped!
Lun

 

[Steve_165]

That works perfectly Lun. Thanks for posting.

 

[skyline1718]

For users with laptop software of windows 8 to 8.1

for touchpad issue

press F5 key
if it did not work
press and hold F5 key
if still not work
FN + F5 key
if still not work check the driver for the touchpad
go to control panel
Hard ware and sounds
and then click on device manager
then click the mice and other pointing devices
then checked if you see any unusual symbol on the right side of the driver name
if there is unusual symbol, right click on the driver name the select uninstall
then on the left upper part of your screen
click on action
then select scan for hardware changes
then checked if your touch pad is now working
if it still did not work
shutdown the laptop
before turning it on press and hold the F2 key
or if you see the toshiba logo screen, rapidly press the F2
then if you see the system date and time
just press F9 then choose yes
after that press F10 then choose save and exit
after that checked the laptop touchpad if still did not work contact toshiba tech support

For users with laptop software of windows 7 and below

press F9 key
if it did not work
press and hold F9 key
if still not work
FN + F9 key
if still not work check the driver for the touchpad
go to control panel
Hard ware and sounds
and then click on device manager
then click the mice and other pointing devices
then checked if you see any unusual symbol on the right side of the driver name
if there is unusual symbol, right click on the driver name the select uninstall
then on the left upper part of your screen
click on action
then select scan for hardware changes
then checked if your touch pad is now working
if it still did not work
shutdown the laptop
before turning it on press and hold the F2 key
or if you see the toshiba logo screen, rapidly press the F2
then if you see the system date and time
just press F9 then choose yes
after that press F10 then choose save and exit
after that checked the laptop touchpad if still did not work contact toshiba tech support

hope this will help for all of users

PLEASE HELP!
I did this and now all my documents/ music etc have disappeared!! What have I done? Can I restore them?

 

[Bobby6Killer]

Toshiba satelitte c50d
Livesystem Mint 18.
Start with second choise.
Mouse and Keyboard works fine.
After reboot no more screen.
All Power off. Accu pull.
System go to bios. F9, F10
all works.
THX

 

[win_myint512001]

Try FN and f5 keys at same time

This worked for me thanks, i tried all the other tips then found this one.
Thanks

my L840 ALSO WORK WITH F5 THANKS

 

[win_myint512001]

MY TOSHIBA SATELITTLE M840 ALSO CAN FIX WITH F5 THANKS