On 29 October 2015 at 04:13, Tim <[email protected]> wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan sent: > >> As I said, the mouse works on another system. I should also mention > >> that the mouse light is on, i.e. it does have power. > > If it wasn't too late to bother, I would have asked whether it stayed > lit continually, or you only saw a light some of the time. > The light is continuous and has never flickered. In fact it stays on even when the battery is almost dead and it won't connect any more. > > >> I'm leaning towards thinking the problem isn't with the mouse but > >> with the dongle (if in fact it's a hardware issue at all). > > > I found an old dongle lying around and tried it. It works. The > > conclusion seems obvious (though not clear). > > > > Thanks to everyone who tried to help. I don't think it's worth > > pursuing this any further. I just wonder why my logs show repeated > > problems loading the driver (going back months) but nevertheless the > > old dongle seemed to work until now. > > I would guess an intermittent fault that grew into becoming permanent. > Most likely component failure, or the soldering. > > Now you've got a working replacement, you could try being brutal to the > bad one. Bang it a few times, hard, see if the thing suddenly starts > working again. You often see that with soldering faults. And you know > the device deserves it for messing you about. ;-) > Maybe I'll try that :-) poc
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