dv2000t Touchpad Freakout

[Dactylonian]

I forgot to mention something about the touchpad freakout. While on the phone with the tech, he asked me to look at the Device Manager for any red "X's". At the time there were none. But after having uninstalled and reinstalled drivers while on the phone, and then after ending the call, I went back to the Device Manager to look again. And there was a red "X" on "USB Composite Device".

Any idea how to fix this? It is obviously related to what we did to fix the problem over the phone.

[Dactylonian]

Hmm...I might have to take back my original statement about the touchpad. Now that I have used it more often, I definately have the same issue. It is not apparant if you have an external mouse attached, but is quite annoying when using the touchpad. It seems to jump out of control once every 3-4 minutes. It is quite random and an annoying problem.

Grr...now I am in 2 minds, should I return it(and not have a laptop for a while) or keep it and ignore the issue.

EDIT: I just tried BIOS version F09 and the issues seems to have been sloved....Anybody else willing to try and confirm this
BTW, I had BIOS version F.0B before.

EDIT 2: Nope, the issue still remains.

It had been a few days since my touchpad freaked out, but it happened at boot-up today. I couldn't even use the pad to click on the green arrow ro log in. Anyway, I downloaded the new BIOS (F.09) and ran the .exe. I exited out of the install when I got a pop-up window asking if I wanted to replace BIOS F.0A dated 6/23/2006 with F.09 dated 6/16/2006. Why would the BIOS update from the HP web page be older than the one installed on the machine?

UPDATE: February 2007 and the issue hasn't popped up since November 2006. I have not updated my BIOS at all, but I have been installing the Windows Updates. I periodically check the HP Software Update and there is an update for the Synaptics device. However, since the problem hasn't shown up in a few months, I'd rather not play with fire here. Otherwise, this laptop is awesome. One weird thing is that after I installed the update to Rhapsody I now have "Rhapsody" and HP Rhapsody" installed on my machine. One is the new version, one is the old.

[miner]

It had been a few days since my touchpad freaked out, but it happened at boot-up today. I couldn't even use the pad to click on the green arrow ro log in. Anyway, I downloaded the new BIOS (F.09) and ran the .exe. I exited out of the install when I got a pop-up window asking if I wanted to replace BIOS F.0A dated 6/23/2006 with F.09 dated 6/16/2006. Why would the BIOS update from the HP web page be older than the one installed on the machine?

They told me to install the same BIOS which I did and it did not fix the issue. I have since returned the laptop. I think there were 2 BIOS for the dv2000t with the GMA 950 and the Go7200. Since they released the GMA950 first, it probably had the F09 BIOS and the Go7200 shipped with the F0 BIOS. That might explain the differences in the release dates.

[vikingjunior]

I don't even know why manufactures still use this outdated touchpad on laptops. The clik buttons should be intergrated into the touchpad itself.

Personally I hate touchpads and pull out my wireless mouse anyway.

[Dactylonian]

It's now Feb 08 and I have not had any problems since back in Aug 2006. The laptop has been awesome!