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Re: Cause of MousePort X-Y Failure Needed (Mouse Works Perfectly)

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From: Christian Stieber
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 00:00
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Pat Fish (fishp@sunyit.edu) wrote:

>   What would cause the mouseport to stop reading the X-Y motion of the mouse?
> I have verified that the mice are in working order.  It's the mouse port that
> doesn't work.  The mouseport does however, detect when the mouse-buttons are
> pressed.  

Chances are the fuse is blown. Look for a small thing that looks like
a resistor, but doesn't have colors. It's probably located somewhere
near the mouseport, and might be labelled with F?. Just bridge it with
a piece of wire and see if this gets the mouse working again.

Christian


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From: stieber@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Christian Stieber)
Subject: Re: Cause of MousePort X-Y Failure Needed (Mouse Works Perfectly)
Date: 1997/02/26
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