Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Mouse card trouble? Message-ID: <8807051552.aa14398@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> Date: 5 Jul 88 18:59:28 GMT References:Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 28 >Recently my printer started acting strange so I pulled all the boards >out of my ][e and narrowed the trouble down to the mouse card. I >then ran dazzle draw and it said it could not find a mouse card >although it was installed. Does anyone have any ideas >about fixing the mouse card? (frequent bad chips,.,. etc ) The last time my printer started doing peculiar things I traced the problem to my print spooler RAM. Before I paniced and packed the whole thing up for an EXPENSIVE trip to the shop, I took out a standard No. 2 pencil and pressed down EACH chip on the board with the eraser end (one or two of the chips actually made small noises indicating they were not firmly seated in their sockets). Cleared the problem right away. I take it the Mouse card seemed to be working until you started searching for the printer problem? You could be lucky enough to solve it by simply cleaning the cards contacts (LIGHTLY with the No 2 pencil eraser again) and pressing down all the socketed chips on the card (lets hope so -- if I'm correct, you know where to send appropriate renumeration :-))) Murph Sewall Sewall@UCONNVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {rutgers psuvax1 ucbvax & in Europe - mcvax} !UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] -+- My employer isn't responsible for my mistakes AND vice-versa! (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited) "It might help if we ran the MBA's out of Washington." - Adm Grace Hopper