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January 11th, 2014 08:00
N5050 Laptop: Touchpad buttons not working.
Hey, my N5050 laptop which is now JUST out of warranty started to develop problems with the touchpad a few days ago, mainly pressing the left button once would double click unintentionally. Now both the buttons have stopped working altogether.
Advice would be excellent in remedying the situation. As a result of this problem I was forced to buy an external mouse but wish to have my touchpad back in working order. I have experience in building pc's but never a Laptop. If the resolution is a technical one should I try a manual fix or some other solution?
Thanks.
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cj90
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June 25th, 2014 14:00
I just fixed this and registered on here to respond to you.
I had the exact same issue. I finally got tired of it and opened up the laptop to figure out what was going on. Looks like there's a design flaw with the n5050 and a couple of other models that can cause the ribbon cable for the touchpad buttons to wiggle loose. All you need to do is take off the touchpad/palmrest disconnect the ribbon cable on the bottom of it for the click buttons(probably disconnected and dirty like mine was), blow gently to get dust out, and reconnect it. Here's a video tutorial that will take you through how to do this step by step. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLIAZFLVrqs It actually shows you how to replace it but if you just do what I did, take it apart and clean/re-seat the connectors, you should be fine.
The connector I'm talking about is the little tiny one going from the bottom of the click buttons to the bottom of the touchpad itself. It can be seen at 2:37 in the video at the top of the video coming out of the metal brackets under the click buttons and the connector is on the bottom of the clickpad. It's ity bitty and all of the ribbon cables are fragile so please be careful and do all this at your own risk.
Let me know if you have any questions about anything and I'll try to get back to you as soon as possible.
hoodr1
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January 10th, 2016 14:00
Thanks, for this!
It fixed the problem!!