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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Mouse card trouble?
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Date: 5 Jul 88 18:59:28 GMT
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>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
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U of Connecticut {rutgers psuvax1 ucbvax & in Europe - mcvax}
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