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06-24-2011, 04:21 PM
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Unusual track pad problem
Got an old Acer which has hardly been used, is FAT32 and is very slow (HD is ok). However when it boots up the track pad is very slow to respond but is faster in safe mode, I have tried Kaspersky rescue CD and the trackpad doesn't work at all in that.
It does work ok in safe mode though. I try a Ubuntu boot CD before writing it off, but does this not seem a bit strange? 
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06-24-2011, 04:29 PM
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It works OK in safe mode? Then I'd suspect there's something eating up the CPU cycles or RAM in normal mode and is interfering with the pad.
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06-24-2011, 05:21 PM
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Will try it Ubuntu, wouldn't say the trackpad is exactly smooth in safe mode, but its much smoother than it is in normal mode.
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06-24-2011, 05:52 PM
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Works fine with Ubuntu, so I am just going to N&P it, I suspect it has some sort of rootkit on it at the moment. Client just wants the job done as cheaply as possible, so in this case N&P makes sense given how slow it is. It is FAT32 too which doesn't help.
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06-24-2011, 06:02 PM
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Don't forget that it might be the infamous Microsoft APM fault where when the battery is poor, it spends lots of cycles waiting for a response (Microsoft have allegedly fixed it a few times...).
With process explorer see if hardware interrupts go high - if yes try disabling APM in dev manager
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06-24-2011, 06:13 PM
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At the moment it is so slow I can't even get to process explorer, but I shall try disabling the services via safe mode. Thanks
 The battery is dead,.
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06-24-2011, 10:34 PM
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Out of interest does a mouse suffer the same problems if you connect one?
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06-25-2011, 12:45 AM
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No the mouse works perfectly fine, even in XP normal mode, which is why I have got confused. XP normal mode crashes though as soon as it loads explorer, but the RAM and HD test fine. Which is why I am suspecting a faulty file system or rootkit.
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06-25-2011, 11:23 AM
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An update, you were right about the battery. I removed it and it works perfectly fine.
First time I've seen this problem 
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06-25-2011, 12:45 PM
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I know that disabling the APM device works, but don't recall if switching to ACPI works (I think the laptop where I came across it might not have had any such option in the BIOS). As I mentioned before, Microsoft have 'fixed' this problem a few times for XP and they have some KBs about it somewhere on their site. Mind you, AFAIR it was an Acer in my case too so maybe it's a combination of poorly programmed interrupt plus a bad implementation at the hardware level
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