Trackpad and mouse stutter in laptop

[marty 17]

Hope I am in the right section but anyway both my trackpad and mouse track all across the screen disappearing completely some times.
Restarting the laptop a few times usually fixes the problem and the issue is an intermittent problem but is becoming more frequent.
It is a Dell Inspiron 8100 and it has been "dropped and given a drink" also but when the mouse/trackpad is controllable the Laptop works fine and has been doing so for a year or so since the dropping and drinking episodes.
But the mouse antics are becoming a pain.
Any help would be appreciated .

[marty 17]

By disabling the Trackpad and using a PS2 mouse the problems are now solved.

Thread closed

[navy blue]

Another thing to try is take out the battery, and just run off mains power, u may be suprised the issue goes away..... similar issue did for me, battery faulty causing the grief, strange but true......


Cheers
NB