Touchpad Eratic on Dell Inspiron 17R

metalmonkey47

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Hey guys so quick background. A few months ago while watching netflix I experienced a minor 'lag' or 'freeze' and when my Dell Laptop recovered about 2 seconds later the cursor was moving around erratically on the screen. I haven't had much time to try and sort this out, and for a while didn't bother me because I was able to use the FN (function button) to disable it and use my wireless mouse but now I'm getting ready to leave town, and the issue has gotten worse.

Now I can no longer use the FN button to disable the touchpad, and the whenever I plug un the wireless fob for the wireless mouse, I get a prompt popping up that Windows recognized that the device has failed. Tried it with two different mice.

I'm pretty irritated since as a photographer, when I travel out of town my laptop is one of my most important tools. Now that I'm heading to Indiana, the dang thing has decided to puke out all of these issues at once. I've NEVER abused this laptop and I'm very careful about how I treat it so I'm rather confused where this issue has come from.

The erratic movement is so annoying now that i can't hardly click on anything. I can't pull up the control panel or device manager because the cursor is bouncing all over the screen.

Any suggestions would be awesome. I'm currently running system restore.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
System restore just popped up an error (Error 0x80070005)

I see several fixes with google.... but absolutely no way to go about it since the cursor is going crazy.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
First thing I would try is go to the Dell site and download then install whatever drivers they have for the touchpad.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit
    Computer type
    Laptop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Acer V3 771G-6443
    CPU
    i5-3230m
    Motherboard
    Acer VA70_HC (U3E1)
    Memory
    8GB DDR3 PC3-12800 (800 MHz)
    Graphics Card(s)
    HD4000 + GeForce GT 730M
    Sound Card
    Realtek High Definition Audio
    Monitor(s) Displays
    17" Generic PnP Display on Intel HD Graphics 4000
    Screen Resolution
    1600x900 pixels
    Hard Drives
    Samsung SSD 850 EVO 250 GB
    ADATA SSD SP900 128GB
    PSU
    90 watt brick
    Mouse
    Bluetooth
    Antivirus
    Comodo
    Other Info
    Asus RT-AC56R dual-band WRT router (Merlin firmware). Intel 7260.HMWWB.R dual-band ac wireless adapter.
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