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    1735 touchpad not keeping up

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by davekra, Aug 18, 2008.

  1. davekra

    davekra Notebook Enthusiast

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    Anyone else have this? The movement of my mouse is not smooth. As I move it it will disappear for a moment then reappear further than it should be. Not all the time either. It happens about every minute of movement. It's not that it moves on it's own or is moving erratically it just seems to jump at times.

    I'm running the Vista that came with it but have turned off or removed all the useless stuff. After boot I've got about 51 processes running and boot up time is very quick. The eventlogs don't point to any problems with the Alps driver or other things. I've upgraded the touchpad driver to something like 7.2.xxx (can't remember and it's not in front of me). Even my wifes HP with Vista does it.

    I thought I would try I8k FanGUI because my fan runs ALOT. After loading it started taking almost 30% of the CPU! The mouse was almost unusable! It would only move for a second then disappear for several. So I removed the software. I'm going to look for a program to make the CPU busy to do some tests.

    Why does it seem the mouse has very low priority when it comes to CPU cycles or whatever?

    Thanks,
    davidk
     
    davekra, Aug 18, 2008
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