RHB wrote:

"Rabid Robot" wrote in message
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On 2019-09-01 10:46 p.m., RHB wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Char Jackson"
Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2019 12:43 AM
Subject: The crazy cursor update

On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 00:28:22 -0400, "RHB" wrote:

I think I'll download linux on this machine and try and install
it on the sick one.

As others have pointed out, you don't need to install Linux, you just
need to boot Linux.

How is Linux "booted" on a machine that runs windows? That LT has a DVD
drive but when I put the DVD with Linux on it, there was no way to run
it.

Instead of loading an operating system from the hard disk as it does
with Windows, the computer loads the operating system installed on a
DVD. If your computer isn't loading Linux from the DVD, I reckon that it
wasn't installed onto the disc properly (burn the ISO onto the disc
rather than copy the file onto it) or the BIOS wasn't configured to load
from the CD/DVD drive first.

The same DVD worked on another laptop I finally gave away. The HD was dead.
But that one wasn't W-10 if that makes a difference.

Most likely, it (the Linux DVD) worked on the other laptop, *because*
its HD was dead. I.e. the laptop *could not* boot from the HD, so - as
the next choice in the boot menu -, it booted from the DVD.

See how you can learn from combining different pieces of information
and how it can help to troubleshoot your problem(s)?

If that's too difficult, others have also pointed out that you can boot
into the BIOS setup screens and let it sit there, cooking, to see if
similar issues crop up. The whole idea behind these things is to take
your current Windows installation out of the picture long enough to see
whether the problem exists outside of Windows.

I had it sitting for hours last night in the BIOS screens. But with no
cursor to go crazy, no touch screen and pad to die - I learned nothing. It
just sat there.

You learned nothing, because you're not looking for information to
help your troubleshooting.

What you *should* have learned is that at least the (internal)
keyboard works in this *other/non-Windows environment*.

What you *should* have *done* is check if the touchscreen and touchpad
(and USB mouse? and USB keyboard?) *work* in this other/non-Windows
environment. I.e. saying "no touch screen and pad to die" does not say
whether or not they *work* (in this other/non-Windows environment).

And re-asking our questions which have never been answered:

Do you have and external USB mouse or/and USB keyboard? If so, have
you tried them? If so, what were the results and have you tried to
disable the touchscreen/touchpad/internal-keyboard? And ... ad
infinitum.

These things have been suggested several times already. I'll see
if I can locate those posts.

Thanks. I'll see if I can Google how that is done.

Ideally, you'd have someone in your immediate vicinity show you how to
do it. Once you see it and get a proper, direct explanation for it, it
becomes something of child's play. Unfortunately, written directions
such as these don't always translate because they don't factor in the
current context of what you're experiencing.

I agree.