From: ard(a)p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell)
Hi everyone...
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the mouse (MO100) is totally dead...it only moves horizontally...I tried
So, first open up the mouse, and clean the dirt out of the sensors....
While it's open, I also recommend you check continuity of the wires in the
cable. I've had a mouse fail because there was a serious kink in one of the
wires in the cable. That cable gets a lot of flexing and the kink
eventually broke that wire. I got an intermittent fault so I could localize
it by bending the cable manually and fix it by slitting the cable open,
splicing the wire, and taping it back up. That's not a very elegant fix,
but it worked. A whole new cable with a new connector at the end would be
nicer.
- Mark