FIrst of all, I have seen all the threads with various fixes and hacks to try to get the touchpad working properly on this laptop. I have tried many, different versions of the Sintelic driver, cleaning the surface, disabling in BIOS etc. My question to those who support/manufacture this laptop; how is it possible that this is not corrected already?
When I first booted this laptop up, out of the box, I had to go find a USB mouse so I could complete my initial windows setup. The damn touchpad wouldn't move at all. It stayed in the top left corner of the screen. Now, its main function seems to be to keep my PC screen from going to sleep. If I disable it in BIOS, it takes the keyboard with it, but my screen will sleep after some inactivity finally. SoO basically this touchpad is making my new laptop very unusable in my opinion.
I've seen threads about the touchpads on a slew of different models for these laptops. Where is the fix? Where is Asus coming out of the woodwork saying "We're getting in front of this one guys". I hesitate to RMA this thing to fix this because of the stories I read on here about people getting their laptops back because "no issue was found" and they are still having problems. I also do not want to crack open the case because I don't want to void my warranty, or I might just go int here and unplug it.
Now I know that laptops are hugely complex devices, I can't imagine it's easy getting all this working together as one. And truthfully this touchpad is my only problem with it. I've tried system restore to out of box condition, no change. Tried clean windows install, and new driver, no other crap, no change. This thing seems to be a hardware problem and I cannot believe that it basically deserves its own forum here because it seems to be so common. Makes me wish I had gotten a different laptop, I've never had trouble from Asus products before, but this disheartens me.
TL;DR, Very disappointed G74SX-AH71 owner
