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Xps 9500 and trackpad replacement (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de

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Hi there,

I have been recently busy with a xps 15 9500 and the trackpad. For a while, this laptop suffered from erractic behavior that nothing could explain why the behavior. Recently I decided to get a trackpad via eBay.

Installed it, felt actually better than the previous, it looked OK. 10 minutes later, trackpad is recessed and it is in a mode like left click is constantly clicked. I've tried everything under the sun (electric tape on the back, loosen or tighten screws around the battery, apply electricat tape on the wedge where the 2 prongs of the trackpad rest inside the battery, etc). And absolutely nothing works.

At this point I am losing my marbles and just want to throw this bs into the bin. Which is a massive waste, since the machine is still in great condition. But a laptop without a functional trackpad is not a laptop.

Did anyone around here ever had a xps 9500 and managed to solve this issue?

EDIT: I forgot to mention a very important detail. When I am using the laptop and if I put the screen on the desk (meaning, main part of the laptop is now vertical), the trackpad works no problem (left side still feels recessed, but at least clicks normally)

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[–] kubica@fedia.io 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe just anecdotally, but once I had problems with a touchpad that used to get crazy (moving and clicking on its own) which got fixed after I reinstalled windows. Now I suspect it could have been some driver, but at the time I didn't know better than to reinstall everything.

[–] ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I thought at some point the issue was exactly that, but in this case, with pop os. I had pop os, reverted to windows 10, tried windows 11, some point had bazzite, but nothing worked at all. At this point I can only say it has to be hardware failure, hence changing the track pad