Preserved Topic: mouse atacked by rat...bloody hell!! (Page 1 of 1)

A few weeks ago my girl bought a new mouse, a pretty nice one too.
With a little red light at the bottom an without the anoying cable... we both fell in love with the little thing.

2 days ago one of those dreaded pet rats, who are here for the holidays, attacked the USB cable from the the mouse receiver. Now are we left with a mouse which is not working anymore..... So back to old non-radio wired mouse. ~grumble grumble ~

Anyone knows how to repair a USB cable?




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rats attack usb cables? my god! i didn't know that.

unfortunately i can't help you, rinswind!

BUT: ask grumble before you grumble!

CELL 557

Would it not be as simple as joining the cables up ? Are they not color coded ? If there not try reconstruct it from what you can , did the rat did eat through all the wires did he !? But be carefull because if you join the wrong ones it could mess up everything , seeing as though peripherals can draw power from it, two of them must have a bit of voltage behind them. I *think* it has like 9v.

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or just get a new cable !!

heh, funny story.

You should get an optical wireless mouse, although it probably costs a fortune.

Maninacan Cell #471
behmer

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With a little red light at the bottom an without the anoying cable...

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That's what he did have, maninacan.

You know, I read the subject of this: "mouse attacked by rat" with the word "blood" also in there, and after reading the line "bought a new mouse" thought that you had bought a mouse - like, a real mouse - and it had been attacked by a rat.

When you started talking about the USB cable, I got really confused.

Usually that kind of wire is made up of some pretty high gauge stuff. You may be able to solder them back togethor; that is if they are color coded. You may be better off taking to an elelctronics repair shop. Someone there should know what they are doing and be able to help you.

EG

heh, ok now I feel dumb synax. I just saw that it bit the cord and thought it was the cord to the mouse, shoulda read better.

Maninacan Cell #471
behmer

You should be able to test connectivity with a multi-meter (set to Ohms)...that will help you with the original 'Which wire goes where?' question...and a little soldering...

Otherwise...buy another one.

ok the soldering i can do, since the wires are color coded
But i think we need a new USB port. This is after noticing that the (also on USB) printer does not work either.
Not only did the dreaded animal put the mouse out of order it also managed to short-circuit my USB ports.

But the good news is: PCI-cards with USB ports are a lot cheaper than optical-wireless mice.
Some good advice: Buy an optical-wireless mouse if you can affort it. DO NOT buy a pet rat.



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[This message has been edited by Rinswind 2th (edited 07-15-2002).]