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Feb 18, 10 | Touchpad not working HP Mini 311 (SOLVED)

So, this is probably the stupidest fix I’ve ever had to perform. Recently I bought an HP Mini 311 and two days ago, the touchpad stopped working. At first I thought I had just turned it off accidentally, but then I realized there is no touchpad on/off toggle button. (Note: The touchpad stopped working after I was trying to open and close both gnome-do and guake as fast as possible.) Anyways, I called HP Support today, and here is how it was fixed:

1. Turn off laptop.
2. Remove battery.
3. Hold power button for 30-40 seconds.
4. Put battery back in.

Pretty lame, but this will save you a call to India. I guess current stored in the machine was somehow blocking the communication with the touchpad. I tried to ask more about what was going on, but to no avail.

24 comments

02/22/10 | trebskie

it worked with my hp mini 311. good fix

03/07/10 | Przemek, Versailles

Thank you. It is stupid but it works. Greetings from Versailles ! Przemek

03/09/10 | Kobold

Thank you so much man

03/12/10 | nick

THIS SOLUTION WORKS!! thank you so much for this post Ethan

03/17/10 | Mike S

Nice fix man. Saved me from getting a big headache.

04/02/10 | dan

very very weird fix, but it worked

thanks alot man.

04/03/10 | Tony H

Thanks, Ethan. Can’t see myself buying another HP in the future if they can’t get the voltage levels right on their hardware.

04/20/10 | terry man

thanks it worked on my hp mini 100

04/25/10 | jay

this worked for me too!save me lots of hassle just by checking the internet for a solution.ayos!!!

04/25/10 | alabazster

Thanks for the tip! The touchpad when bonkers this evening and was so glad to find your post and the solution.

05/02/10 | U Borg

Amazing! Thank G*d I had access to another computer so I could find this simple solution…

05/05/10 | Adrian Felipe Pera

The same happens to me. Pathetic bug of hp laptops, and happens on both of hp laptops I have. Don´t know why do they (hp support people) don´t say it as simple as you solve it. Thank you.

05/06/10 | alejandra

hello
omg! i cant belive that this is the solution ! thanks so much!!
:D :D :D

05/14/10 | Wanda

A million thank you’s!

05/17/10 | Matt

Really stupid fix but you saved me a MAJOR tech freak out. Thank you so much!!!

06/04/10 | Gerben

Sweet, it worked with my HP Mini 311 too! Many thanks for sharing this fix!

06/15/10 | Andy

I found that reformatting without the original mini311 drivers solves these problems

just reformat to win 7 32-bit, install this program called touchfreeze and the touchpad becomes awesome

Touchfreeze:
http://code.google.com/p/touchfreeze/

07/01/10 | Alex

Worked like a charm. Thank you so much!

It’s always some completely esoteric solution that only the original engineers of the device could figure out.

07/05/10 | C

Even reading the comments, I thought there was no chance this would work, but it did! Thanks a lot.

07/17/10 | James

AMAZING!!! IT REALLY WORKS!!! THANKS MAN!!

08/02/10 | Jiyong

Thanks, stupid fix but it does work. :]

08/14/10 | Xoie

Thank you for the fix. Very much appreciated!

08/21/10 | Tim

Thanks for saving me a 3 hour call to India!!! Worked immediately.

08/25/10 | xurras

gracias..fue un gran dolor de cabeza por nos días.

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