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From: pip@pro-freedom.cts.com (David Pipgras)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Mouse Problems
Message-ID: <1990Sep3.182056.21047@clark.edu>
Date: 3 Sep 90 18:20:54 GMT
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Organization: Apple*Van - Apple Users Group of Vancouver, WA [206/253-9389]
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:(Eric Feigenson) writes:
:> I'm having a peculiar problem on my Mac IIcx.  All of a sudden, when I
:> move my mouse, the cursor tends to jump around on the screen.  It
:> doesn't jump very far, but it does sometimes jump towards the top of
:> the screen when I move the mouse so that the cursor should be moving
:> to the *bottom* of the screen.  I first suspected a virus, and I have
:        ...
:> problem.  I'm fairly certain that it's not a virus, and that leaves a
:> "hardware problem".  Has anyone else encountered this problem before?
:
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:I have had much the saem problem, and I took the mouse off, opened it up and
:cleaned it from head to tail (pun intended). When my mouse did what you
:describe, I merely cleaned the litttle rollers where the ball was, and that
:h mb very little effect on it. When I opened the whole case, I found
:that somehow I had small threads of stuff, like fibers, or lint wrapped
around
:the little roller bars! I took a twizer and cleaned it all out, washed the
:ball with a cleaning solution (they get dirty too!) used for VHS tapes, and
:did the same for the rollers. I so cleaned it with a damp cloth from head to
:tail (pun again) and  made sure the connections on both the cord and my mac
:were also clean.
:
:The result is that I have not had a single problem (probably speaking too
:soon!) with it since then. And that was about 4 months ago....
:
:
:Dave


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