Recent content by Saldali

So, to put an end to this mystery: I was able to fix the original mouse... I switched over the IR leds and photo-transistors, of the horizontal and vertical encoders. Then, both directions started to work fine. Maybe the horizontal encoder led or photo-transistor had a bad solder joint? I was...

Ok, so I finally got a "new" mouse from ebay and that one works fine! It's a big sigh of relief for me, because the logic board seems to be ok after all. Now, to try and figure out how a mouse and keyboard both went dead at the same time. What could have gone so wrong?...

robin-fo, I opened up the mouse. Sure enough, I was surprised by the amount of gunk inside it. I used my lungs to blow the dirt out from inside the mouse. I blew a lot toward the encoders and the photocells, should there be any debris stuck in between. I'm glad I did that. However it made no...

Sure, joshc. Hope you can spot something.

Yes, the keyboard on its own makes no difference. First time I booted after the battery change, the cursor keys and the tab key were sort of working. I was able to cycle the icons on the screen using those keys; but if I pressed them too quickly, the highlighted icon would sometimes jump two at...

My LC has been powered off for 1 or 2 years and had a dead PRAM battery (not leaky). That prevented it from booting. I changed the battery. The computer now boots alright, but has these strange issues: - The mouse cursor only moves up and down but not sideways; it seems to want to move a pixel...