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I just recently purchased an Inspiron 8200 (Used and from E-Bay). I had to
change out the hard drive, and put in a Toshiba 30G. I've loaded the OS
(Windows XP Home Edition), and put in the Dell CD that came with the laptop.
My problem and question is that I am unable to get the touchpad or mouse by
the keyboard to work. If I want to use a mouse, I'm using an external PS/2.
I've checked the system BIOS, and verified that the mouse setting was
"Touchpad / PS-2". I've reset the BIOS with an "ALT F", and have also
installed the Chipset Driver from the utilities CD and then the Alps
Pointing Device driver from the same CD. Another problem that I have is
that the PC speaker is not working either. I can use headphones, but that's
it. . . Any thoughts on fixes? Supposedly all these items worked before
the prior HD crashed.
Any ideas that anyone could give would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!!!
Mike
PS: I know that this is a repeat question. However, the response that I
had was to try to install the driver's from the utilites CD. How hard would
it be to open the casing to check the physical connectors?
Thanks again!!!
I just recently purchased an Inspiron 8200 (Used and from E-Bay). I had to
change out the hard drive, and put in a Toshiba 30G. I've loaded the OS
(Windows XP Home Edition), and put in the Dell CD that came with the laptop.
My problem and question is that I am unable to get the touchpad or mouse by
the keyboard to work. If I want to use a mouse, I'm using an external PS/2.
I've checked the system BIOS, and verified that the mouse setting was
"Touchpad / PS-2". I've reset the BIOS with an "ALT F", and have also
installed the Chipset Driver from the utilities CD and then the Alps
Pointing Device driver from the same CD. Another problem that I have is
that the PC speaker is not working either. I can use headphones, but that's
it. . . Any thoughts on fixes? Supposedly all these items worked before
the prior HD crashed.
Any ideas that anyone could give would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!!!
Mike
PS: I know that this is a repeat question. However, the response that I
had was to try to install the driver's from the utilites CD. How hard would
it be to open the casing to check the physical connectors?
Thanks again!!!