[timat10]

I recently needed to adopt a new USB mouse for use with my dependable Toshiba P105 S6024 Satellite. I never use the touchpad. I installed Intellipoint 6.3 and was enjoying the mouse when I realized my keyboard no longer worked, nor could I activate the touchpad. I have yellow exclamation points by both the keyboard devices and touchpad device (represented as another mouse)
I've uninstalled Intellipoint software and allowed Windows XP Media SP3 to install generic drivers, for which the mouse work fine. Tried to update, reinstall and replace drivers for Synaptics PS/2 Port Touchpad according to various instructions, none of which were successful. The keyboard lights flash when rebooting but go off. I didn't know if by luck, my keyboard is just fried but it seems that there may be a trick to the way these drivers have to be installed? I've experienced all types of errors in my quest, but usually when I attempt to install driver, Device Mgr says "A driver/service is disabled for this device".
Or, "Synaptics PS/2 Port Touchpad cannot install, the service cannot be started because it has no enabled devide". Also, when I had the MS Mouse installed, when I attempted to access the mouse software, I get the message that it was unable to connect to the Synaptics Device Driver, then opened anyway. I've also seen "this may be because the INF was written for Windows 95 or later". I've found NO good instructions on the proper procedure for processing these drivers on Synaptics site or Toshiba's site, just a bunch of different versions that are all supposed to be compatible. I assume it was the Microsoft Mouse Software or driver that started the whole thing, and did I fry my keyboard in the process?
Many thanks for any help... this is my third day on this project as I found out that CompUSA went broke and my warranty is worthless.
Tim