Acer 5050 Touchpad/Keyboard Stop Working

Hello. I am hoping that someone will have a solution to some weirdnesses going on with my Acer 5050. It came with Vista but I reformatted the hard drive and installed XP. Everything had been going smoothly until I decided to download Service Pack 3. While Service Pack 3 was downloading my network hiccuped or something and Service Pack 3 was aborted mid download. After that happened the computer was a complete mess, so I reformatted the hard drive and re-installed XP. I am now at the point of downloading all MS XP updates, virus protection, anti-spyware etc.

The problem I seem to be having is sometimes after a reboot the touchpad and keyboard will not work. An external wireless mouse will though. I find if I do a reboot both the touchpad and the keyboard will come back to life but often when the touchpad and keyboard will not work the computer will not reboot, I must pull out the battery to get the silly machine to reboot.

Anyone have any ideas? Thanks, Brenda

 

here's two drivers i found, but im not quite sure which one is the right one, you should try the newest one first and see if it works, if it doesnt then try the older one.

newer: http://www.driversdown.com/drivers/Acer-Aspire-5050-Notebook-Synaptics-TouchPad-Driver_72600.shtml

older: http://www.driversdown.com/drivers/...Pad-Driver-v5.5.1101.4-Windows-XP_69272.shtml

 

I did go to Acer's website and downloaded what they have listed as the most current driver but I will try the link you sent me to see if it makes a difference.

 

The link that you have sent me keep sending me to a page to download Driver Dectective which I must pay for. I would have no problem paying for this program but I have no re-assurance that this will really work. Also this is the first time I have ever been given a link to software I must pay for. Could someone tell me what is the deal?

 

what link did you click?? here is a direct link for the driver: http://down3.driversdown.com/Notebook/AS5050_SynTouchpad.zip

 

Not trying to be a pain but when I click on the latest link you sent the page opens to this:
Directory Listing Denied
This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed.

I have googled the driver and found one that seems to be more current and so far is working. I would never have thought that the drivers Acer had on their site would be outdated. It was the first thing I did after installing Xp, go to the Acer site and download the "current" drivers. Thanks so ton!

 

I am hoping someone will respond to this. After a day of running fine regarding the keyboard and touchpad, I am back to it malfunctioning. HELP!

Thanks, Brenda