hi, since day one of owning my inspiron the touchpad was a little flakey.. sometimes it just wouldnt work. the problem starting getting worse, the cursor whould float a little, but most annoyingly the pad became less and less responsive(ie no cursor movement on screen). the machine works fine with an external mouse.

just received a replacement palm rest assembly(with new touchpad) from dell. installed it and the problem still exists..

ive tried all sorts of things: safe mode, alternative bios revisions, checked for irq conflicts,(uses 12 with nothing else), even tried reinstalling windows..

i'm guessing that the connector on the motherboard is at fault.. and that i need to change the motherboard, but was wandering if anyone had any other suggestions.. its starting to do my head in.

thanks

richard