Unscrew that screw and then open your laptop. It is usually labeled with a picture of the keyboard. Take off the cover to the hard drive and memory.ĭepending on your computer, under one of the covers you will find the screw that holds the keyboard in. Eventually the two ribbons will pop out of place.Īs a result, the mouse pad can still move around, and the right moust button will still work, but nothing else. The ribbons aren't that long, and with continued handling of the laptop and picking it up by the corner, you cause the laptop to flex, which in turn pulls on the two ribbons. There are two ribbons that connect to your left mouse button and the tapping ability of the touchpad. I took the entire computer apart and finally found the problem and here's the problem and the solution: I read hundreds of forums and they all said you are screwed. My laptop is out of warranty and before buying a new one, i wanted to see if I could fix this. I've had my computer now for several years and all of a sudden the left mouse button and the ability to tap on the touch pad stopped. What the hell could be going on? I plan on installing Arch tomorrow to see if that will help it, but this is a very odd problem I believe.

Summa summarum, there is no way for me to left click on Ubuntu, and I can only left click with my mouse on Windows 7. The left click did not work on my USB mouse either. I then installed Ubuntu, and lo and behold, after installation, neither touchpad-click, nor the keyboard-button click for left clicking did not work (on Ubuntu).

I figured windows must have messed something up, so I booted an Ubuntu Live CD. I tried reinstalling the drivers (nearly fresh copy of W7, by the way), that did not help. I boot up my laptop and remember that it didn't work. Right click worked fine.Īs I don't use my laptop very often (and when I do, I use a mouse, where both clicks were working fine), I practically forgot about the problem thinking it was probably a driver issue and I was too lazy at the time to figure it out.įast forward to today. That keyboard-bound left-click button also did not work. At one point in its life, the left click on the touchpad simply decided to stop working.

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