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From: sethcohn@alchemy.tcnet.ithaca.ny.us (seth cohn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: re: jumpy mice
Message-ID: <iDe6u1w162w@alchemy.tcnet.ithaca.ny.us>
Date: 2 Jan 91 13:08:53 GMT
Organization: Alchemy International, Ithaca, N.Y.
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as a service tech, I see jumpy mice all time.
1) give your mouse a sedative - ritalin works well.
2) let your mouse run around at night (maybe buy a running wheel)
3) get a second mouse of the opposite sex

but seriously -
1) mouse is on the way to failure - the mechanism inside depends on a 
sensor reading light and dark bars as a wheel turns - if it starts to 
fail it begins to act funny
2) hate to say it but logic board is the next possible culprit - try 
another mouse and see - I've had to replace logic boards with just this 
problem

Seth Cohn - Ithaca NY - POB 671 - (607)272-2225 (eves)
Mac Service Tech to The Stars and most major Planets
"The Highest form of Service Is anarchy in the defense of one's Self"