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To Rich Wiggins I've seen similar problems with a Dell portable and an ALPs touchpad. I ended up disabling the sleep-hibernate functions. Cliff -- Clifford L. Beckett office: 517-355-4659 Electronic System Designer cell: 517-449-8226 A411 E. Fee fax: 517-353-0789 OMM Department email: [log in to unmask] Michigan State University web: www.obl.msu.edu East Lansing MI, 48824 Jon Galbreath wrote: > > My guess is that it's a driver problem even if you're using a newer > one than the one HP has listed. Have you tried rolling back to the > one on HP's site? It could also be a problem with the power > management settings. Some kind of conflict when the machine wakes up > that takes some time to resolve, but again, could be a driver problem > in that it's not managing the wake up process properly. > > > > *Jon Galbreath* > > MCSE/Security+ > > Systems Administrator > > International Studies and Programs > > Ph: 517-884-2144 > > [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> > > > > *From:* MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > *On Behalf Of *Richard Wiggins > *Sent:* Tuesday, June 09, 2009 10:27 AM > *To:* [log in to unmask] > *Subject:* [MSUNAG] Mysterious problem with ALPS touchpad on HP DV3500 > > > > I bought an HP DV3500 laptop late last fall. This is a model HP > custom made for Best Buy. Running Wndows Home Premium 64. I have a > very strange problem with the touchpad. When I close the clamshell > and put it to sleep, it ofter wakes up in a state where the touchpad > does bizarre things. It won't select applications on the task bar. > When IE goes to Work Offline mode, the dialog box that pops up won't > select -- exactly 3 times. On the 3rd try it always selects and then > IE goes back online. > > > > The driver on my computer is newer than the driver HP offers online -- > scary. > > > > I have found that if I use Task Manager to kill and restart > explorer.exe the problem goes away. > > > > I'm not able to find any information online about this problem. Any > searches I do for ALPS are complicated by a certain mountain range. > > > > This is pretty low-volume computer and this is a very obscure problem > so I know this is a long shot, but if anyone has any theories I'd be > curious. > > > > /rich >