Static Electricity Touchpad

Last updated posted 2005 sep 22 12 30 am aest posted 2005 sep 22 12 30 am aest user 93335 67 posts.

Static electricity touchpad.

Clearly it has been winter lately which means that i have much more static electricity in my hair and stuff than usual due to my coats and sweaters. Static electricity on a touchpad. Once i rebooted the system the touchpad wasn t working. Restart this did not work.

Awful loud static noise from compaq speakers. I d like to remember the procedure. The charge is often painful to you but can be. It involved something like.

Static electricity may interfere with the trackpad and prevent the capacitance in the electrodes from being detected properly. Static build up prevents reboot. Fn f7 toggle to turn touchpad on off this did not work. But then when i touch the touchpad on my macbook it just stops working.

When i plugged in the ac charger the touchpad does not work properly. What i have been noticing lately is that occasionally when i go to touch my macbook i get shocked. Archive view return to standard view. Posted 2005 sep 17 9 32 pm aest.

To regain functionality in the touchpad i ve tried the following so far. Power down remove rechargeable batter module s hold power button down for 30 seconds i can t remember but i think the ac adapt. At this point your static level lowers dramatically only to begin the building process again as you continue to move about. Use a wireless mouse fortunately this works.

There were no preexisting holes drilled for this on the unit i received hence the 3 stars so i added an hard pressure outline with the other end and then created a hole with a small sharp pair of scissors and snapped this into place and screwed it down to the. I have a strange problem with my inspiron 14 n4050. Sony vaio laptop runs on battery but not electricity. I ve worked with raw capacitive touch sensors and they are amazingly receptive to static electricity changes in humidity and probably trolls and fairies.

Laptop overheating if i try to play videos do anything besides idle and static websites. Be sure static buildup in the computer is discharged by grounding it. When i disconnect the ac charger and reboot the system the touchpad works perfec. Posted 2005 sep 17 9 32 pm aest ref.

The other end will need to be attached to the anti static pad itself. Once you build a static charge level of 3000 volts your body receives a shock when you touch another object. I remember a dell support person once walked me through the procedure for draining static charge. Sometimes it moves and sometimes not eventhough i have moved and touched the touchpad.