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From: pip@pro-freedom.cts.com (David Pipgras)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Mouse problem
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Date: 3 Sep 90 18:20:16 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from joe@cbnews.att.com


(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?



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
had some, but 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 also 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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