Satellite A210 - Keyboard, touchpad, battery, start up issues

Hi
Satellite A210 less than 12 months old.
1. Speakers had problem - ASP replaced the motherboard, but now the volume is always very low, even when at 100%. All settings checked and seem to be okay. How to fix??
2. Does not always boot from battery as it is continually flat. Laptop went to ASP who replaced motherboard (again) and put new battery. Now it is always best to run the laptop from the power adaptor as the battery is still losing charge. If unplugged from mains supply battery goes flat over night????
3. Refused to boot up with the power button, talked to ASP who advised to reformat PC - did that but problem still remained
4. Reformatted lots more times and in end sent back to ASP as now the keyboard did not always work either. ASP replaced the motherboard (that is now the third one) but hasn't resolved the problem, and the keyboard. Battery still not holding charge
5. On day that I got A210 back, touchpad didn't work. Talked to ASP who gave me lots of options to try, including turning it off and waiting for 30 minutes, which did nothing. Sent it back to ASP who says there is nothing wrong with it?????
How can I resolve the power on and touchpad issue?
Have given up on the battery and the speakers
Maybe someone other than the ASP can give me an answer please. All I want is to be able to use my laptop and have it do all the usual things that a PC does, sound, keyboard, battery operation and not always have to put in a USB mouse.
Help appreciated

Thanks for answering -
I have tried the volume button on front of laptop and it doesn't make the speakers any louder
I would not know how to go into the BIOS to change those things.
Do I need to get a person who has done a PC course to change it?
It isnt just some of the keys on the keyboard that don't work, its the whole keyboard, (yes I made sure that the Fn key hadn't been enabled to make the letters into a numeric keyboard),
I had done a Fn+9 and it showed the touchpad was enabled, but still it doesn't work.
It always used to work even if I had a USB mouse plugged in.
Where to now??????

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