Touchpad is malfunctioning for the weirdest reasons.

The device thing is inaccurate; I actually have a zenbook flip UX360 but it wasn't on the menu.

So I have the weirdest problem. I was using ubuntu and my asus touchpad randomly froze. I tried booting up ubuntu on a bootable flash drive and the mouse started working again! That is, until I turned the laptop upside down and it froze. Like what in the world? I'm starting to think that this touchpad is a hardware problem now. It happened twice already on two separate reboots, and now the touchpad cursor is completely gone. The cursor also works with a mouse.