dv2000t Touchpad Freakout

[stanvman]

Just received my dv2000t today. Everything is running great, except the touchpad. For whatever reason, after about 15 minutes of usage the touchpad starts freaking out. It only allows me to move the cursor up and down, while the whole time it is jittering vertically across the screen.

This is my first laptop to have the vertical scroll feature on the touchpad, so I thought maybe that was what was causing the problem. After turning that feature off I have still run into the problem.

If any of you have experienced this problem or have ideas of what could be causing it, I'd appreciate your input.

Also, I'd like to reformat it and install a partition of linux on it. Will this screw me over if I need to return it because the touchpad hardware is broke?

[camsimple]

Reformats will not screw you over and are covered under most, if not all, warranties. As for your touchpad issue, have you reinstalled the drivers for the touchpad? I believe you can find all those on HP's website. I would try that first to see if it fixes the problem.

[hp user]

stanvman,
I've had a similar problem with my touchpad, though not quite as extreme. For me, the touchpad is generally fine, but the cursor will jump around at times (generally vertically when my finger gets close to the point where the horizontal scrolling region begins). This is actually my second dv2000t (the first one had the lcd defect that other members have discussed), and the first one had a perfect touchpad.

So far, I haven't tried anything aside from fiddling with the various hardware settings to fix the problem (some adjustments to the palmcheck sensitivity seem to have helped a bit), but I may give reinstalling the driver a try.

[stanvman]

While creating the HP PC Recovery Discs (which takes 15 CD-R's ), I've been messing around with the drivers. First I uninstalled and then reinstalled the Synaptic Touchpad drivers. Same problem cropped up. Then I tried turning the touchpad off and using a USB mouse. No problems. So THEN, I just totally uninstalled the Synaptic drivers, and let XP take care of the touchpad interfacing. So far, I've had no FREAKOUT.

So, if you're having problems with your touchpad, just try dumping the Synaptic drivers.

Hopefully, this is the end of my touchpad woes.

[Shel]

stanvman
Glad to hear you worked out the problem with your touchpad!

I've ahd my dv2000t for about a month now, traveled with it on two trips, and so far, love it!

Hope you have the same experience with your dv2k as I'm having with mine.

(yeah, the restore disks take up a LOT of space! I used 3 dvd's)

[miner]

I dont see any issues with my dv2000t. The touchpad has been extremely smooth and is slightly different in feel than the one in the V3000 and older R3000.

[stanvman]

Bad news, the touchpad is still messed up. Also, while trying to burn the recovery cd's, 80% of the time the drive failed.

It pisses me off because I got a great deal on this rig. How easy/hard is it to get a refund from HP?

[Stotic]

Just register your HP care like it says on the box and call the company. Theyll send you a box to send to them and theyll fix it.

[DV2000T]

Stanvman, you have 21 days to return the laptop. They even pay for pickup shipping. You just have to call them and ask for a RMA number and they schedule a pickup for you.
I'm having the same problem with mine. I'm going to return it next week and I'll order another one. I'm not ready to give up on HP yet. I really like the DV2000T.

[miner]

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.