on 5/1/04 12:29 PM, R. A. Cantrell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> on 5/1/04 11:26 AM, R. A. Cantrell at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Bookies,
>> I just got my replacement scsi cable and tore the 20c apart and
>> put it back together. I turned my back for a moment while it was booting up
>> and when I turned back to it, it had booted, but the trackpad was hot,
>> really hot. I unplugged it and let it cool off and tore it back apart.
>> Nothing seemed amiss, so I put it back together and booted it up. It
>> booted, but the cursor, she did not move, any. So I shut it down and
>> plugged in a mouse and rebooted. The cursor moved for the mouse. Questions:
>> Is the trackpad dead? Did I kill it? Or is the MoBo wounded. Did I
>> wound it? How, on both the above. Fortunately I picked up a couple of
>> junkers at the flea market last night and I'm going to take the trackpad out
>> of one and see if that fixes the problem or duplicates the phenomenon
>> (somebody stop me).
> Well, following me up:
> I took one of the junkers apart and was
> getting ready to transplant the trackpad to the ailing machine. Just for
> grins, I booted the machine with the hotpad and navigated around some with
> the arrows and keys and it did not repeat the hotpad phenomenon . . .but I
> got the cursor to move using the trackpad, but . . .it will not move
> through the middle of the trackpad, just flies away. . .but, if I just use
> the edge of the trackpad, babay stepping, I can move the cursor the width
> and height of the screen. So, is this a shorted out/burnt up trackpad? Or
> what?
Well,
One more re-boot, zap the P-ram, re-build the desktop . . .all is
well, I guess. What was that deal about? When I said hot in the first post,
I mean hot; too hot to touch. Lectrizity wuz gettin out and so forth, but
what for and why. . .and why now not? Can this be a software induced
phenomenon? Some kind of power management gone really wrong? Or something?
Too strange.
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