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01-18-2013 01:06 PM
I have a HP Pavilion dv6t-7000 CTO. Today I decided to upgrade to windows 8.
I downloaded HP's touch pad Firmware update and after running it, it says there's a problem while reflashing the firmware. And now, as you can guess, my touchpad is no longer working. I have the Synaptics device driver 16.2.15.0 installed. When I try to run the Firmware update again I get the Synaptics Reflash Error:
"A Synaptics Pointing device driver is required for reflashing. Please install a Synaptics driver version v15.1.6.0 or newer"
The touchpad doesn't show up in Device Manager, however, there's a Unknown Device and a PCI device listed in the Other devices section.
I've tried to reinstall the driver and all but nothing worked thus far.
Help anyone? Thanks in advance! Any suggestion appreciated.
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01-21-2013 09:41 AM
I actually solved this problem just several minuntes after this post. All I did was go to windows' mouse pointer settings and a pop up box appear offering me to uninstall the Synaptics driver. I have no idea how this differ from manually uninstalling the driver but click yes at this check box actually solved the problem while the manual methods didn't.
01-21-2013 09:41 AM
I actually solved this problem just several minuntes after this post. All I did was go to windows' mouse pointer settings and a pop up box appear offering me to uninstall the Synaptics driver. I have no idea how this differ from manually uninstalling the driver but click yes at this check box actually solved the problem while the manual methods didn't.
01-21-2013 10:41 PM
The solutions proposed by Delusionist worked.
I just entered the mouse configuration through Control Panel and when it was initializing, it prompted that the driver was point to nowere and as if I wanted to desintall.
Desinstalled, rebooted = touchpad working again (but slow)
Intalled the drivers again = touchpad running fast and precise.
Thank you,
01-25-2013 03:41 PM
If the notebook is still in warranty, you should be able to get the touchpad repaired under warranty. If you are inside the United States, you can contact HP Support at 1-800-474-6836.
05-21-2015 07:22 PM
2-restart
3-open registry and serach for any value related to "synaptics" and delete them.you may find around 20 to 30 values.
4-restart
5-touchpad should now work again but with microsoft default driver.
6 install synaptics driver from hp site.
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