Enter and navigate BIOS

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Greetings   Spent last two hours on Dell pages figuring out how to disable internal touch pad on Inspiron 5150 when PS/2 Mouse connected.  Found procedure in Tech FAQs... refered me to System Users Guide to find out how to enter and Navigate BIOS to make change...only thing I could find in Systme Users Guide was to press F2 at power up...did that but no directions of how to navigate to get me to 'pointing device' so I can make what appears to be a simple change...Pls Help.

NemesisDB · Answer

I'm not sure where the option is that you're looking for but I believe ALT P will let you go to a new bios page.  That said, the bios is very intuitive as it lists the directions that you need

leduke30 · Answer

I have never seen the BIOS pages on a 5100 series, but the C-series Laptops all had that option by setting PS/2 Mouse in Pointing Device on page 3 or 4 of BIOS setup. That disables the Touchpad if a PS/2 mouse is connected. Default is Touchpad/PS/2 Mouse and both work at all times. F2 will get you into Setup, but then read the directions on the bottom and right side of the pages

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Message Edited by leduke30 on 05-01-2005 03:11 PM

NemesisDB · Answer

Actually ... my 51000 doesn't have a ps/2 port ...  do 5150s?

leduke30 · Answer

Apparently not, and I would surmise that is the reason he can not disable the touchpad.  I guess Dell decided a USB mouse was good enough and connecting one of those does not disable the touchpad even on models with that Setup option. Thanks for the heads up, nemesis Message Edited by leduke30 on 05-01-2005 05:18 PM

Ford150 · Answer

Thanks all for your reply...looks like 5150 does not have option to disable touch pad...heard from Dell and best I can do is change the sensitivity...darn...again thanks for your inputs...great education

NemesisDB · Answer

you can always disable it in device manager...  not as quick, but if you're using the mouse for extended periods, it's an option

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