Chief F1 Fan

this is driving me crazeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! As I surf, my XP Pro equipped Latitude D800's pointer moves across the screen by itself no matter what I do. NE1 know how to fix?

shimbo519

my laptop does the same thing sometimes.

eclipse23

Hmm, do you use a touchpad?

eclipse23

Do a test chief, pop on a usb or ps2 mouse to the laptop and work w/ it? Does the mouse still stray around? Anychance your fat fingering it?

Smitty

sounds like you have to adjust the sensitivity

Chief F1 Fan

naaaaah, my hands aren't even touching the computer when it's happening. I'll try putting a mouse on it and see what happens.

zamo

common in Dells; someone already had a problem like this.

Touchpad issues.

suXor

Yeah, happens when you brush against the touchpad. Happens to me when I type, the palm of my hand taps it slightly and away the mouse goes.

joeshmoe

I had a little track ball in the middle of my keyboard on my older compaq laptop. It would move on its own sometimes. Never really fix it though, cause it didn't happen all the time.

anothercls

RootBeer posted about this a couple weeks back, not sure of the resolution.

I should disable my touchpad on my Sony since I keep touching it and puts me in the middle of a sentence and I keep typing in the middle of it.

Chief F1 Fan

no, you guys are missing what I'm saying--I don't even have my hands anywhere near computer and the pointer is moving. Then when I go to touch the mouse and get the pointer back on the screen, it doesn't appear for a while. I adjusted sensitivity but w/ no results; ditto changing the style of the pointer.

evilone

mine does that 2 sometimes. the pointer just keeps moven from one side of the screen to the other with no one touching it. and no im not on a laptop.

zamo

Its a defect with the touchpad sensor. You guys need some warranty work.

evilone

i dont have a dell and its not a LAPTOP. its a normal mouse with inferred.

applesplatter

it's possessed

zamo

your "inferred" mouse is evil. Warranty is your friend

Scrib

Melanie

Mine does that too on my IBM laptop but its 3.5 years old so I don't think much of it - It happens usually when I have it not flat on a table, like if it's just on my lap

Chief F1 Fan

So is Webster's Dictionary

Repo1234

I have a dell and mine does the same thing. Whenever I pick it up, or when I have it on my lap the mouse goes crazy. It normally goes into a corner and keeps going. Eventually what I do is put the computer on something flat. That normally keeps it from going crazy. Sometimes that doesn't work and I have to kinda bang the area around the touch pad. I dont know what causes it but it only happens when I pick it up from the front or when I have it on something unbalanced.

Teh Snaps

my wireless mouse does the same thing every now and then-

Melanie

Its real annoying right?

I hate that

Repo1234

I think it means that we need new laptops! Mine is also about 3.5-4 years old now.

Chief F1 Fan

Mine is 7 mos. old!

Chopsie

Mine will dart across the screen on occasion

suXor

BTW, if it is a laptop, and you are using an external mouse, that does not disable the touchpad. If the touchpad is defective, or has something caught between it and the housing on the laptop, it will do this.