Hi all,

I would be very grateful for any advice. I have an acer laptop aspire 5600 and I am having trouble with the mouse pad.

Within windows xp it won't work properly at all (pointer only moves sometimes) BUT if I load acronis true image from a cd at boot up instead of windows then within that program it works perfectly, so I figured that rules out the mouse pad itself being faulty. I tried to reinstall an acronis backup of xp (that is virus and malware free) but even within that backup of xp the mouse pad won't work.

I have restored bios defaults but still no good. By the way if I connect a wired or wireless mouse to laptop then the pointer works fine from the mouse, but not the mouse pad. The laptop has 1gb of ram and does seem to be running slow enough, could it be a memory problem?

Your views on this puzzling problem.

Many thanks
Joe

joe