Cleaned wireless mighty mouse scroll and now scrolling doenst work at all

beemer832 · Oct 28, 2009, 11:42 AM

I went ahead and disassembled my wireless mighty mouse, unscrewed the scroll ball from the lid of the mouse and found a ton of lint and cr@p that has been living in here for quite some time. cleaned it all up, put it together, now all of the little rollers spin freely, great.

I go to put everything together, including the 2 ribbon cables, mouse snaps together, fire it up, mouse works fine, i can click, side buttons work, but the scroll does not work at all now. left to right use to be fine, it was just up and down. now nothing works.

any idea what could have gone wrong? did i forget something?

-josh

rgarjr · Oct 28, 2009, 12:26 PM

Take it back apart and see whats up.

beemer832 · Oct 28, 2009, 12:35 PM

sorry, i forgot to imply that. i have taken it back apart multiple times, checked and double checked to make sure the rollers are in place (all 4 move freely), cabling is secure, flat, and straight.

i dont see any other issues. i am under the assumption this is an electronic failure issue where something died which is most likely not going to be replaceable.

-josh

Oct 28, 2009, 11:42 AM	#1
beemer832 macrumors newbie Join Date: May 2007	Cleaned wireless mighty mouse scroll and now scrolling doenst work at all I went ahead and disassembled my wireless mighty mouse, unscrewed the scroll ball from the lid of the mouse and found a ton of lint and cr@p that has been living in here for quite some time. cleaned it all up, put it together, now all of the little rollers spin freely, great. I go to put everything together, including the 2 ribbon cables, mouse snaps together, fire it up, mouse works fine, i can click, side buttons work, but the scroll does not work at all now. left to right use to be fine, it was just up and down. now nothing works. any idea what could have gone wrong? did i forget something? -josh

Oct 28, 2009, 12:26 PM	#2
rgarjr macrumors 68020 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Covina, California	Take it back apart and see whats up. __________________ MacBook Alu 2.4GHz\|iMac 24" 3.06GHz\|Mac Mini 2GHz [HTPC Setup]\|Touch 64GB [JB'd]\|iPhone 3GS 32GB [T-Mobile]

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Oct 28, 2009, 12:35 PM	#3
beemer832 Thread Starter macrumors newbie Join Date: May 2007	sorry, i forgot to imply that. i have taken it back apart multiple times, checked and double checked to make sure the rollers are in place (all 4 move freely), cabling is secure, flat, and straight. i dont see any other issues. i am under the assumption this is an electronic failure issue where something died which is most likely not going to be replaceable. -josh