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- From: armstrongmw@cgc.com
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Dead mouse port (not CIA's ?)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul20.150309.79@cgc.com>
- Date: 20 Jul 92 15:03:09 PST
- References: <1992Jul14.151706.49@bra.isnet.inmos.co.uk> <22424@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Organization: Cooley Godward Castro Huddleson & Tatum, San Francisco, Ca
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- In article <22424@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>, johnl@SDFSERV.hac.com (John Lee) writes:
- > In article <1992Jul14.151706.49@bra.isnet.inmos.co.uk> tscarpenter@bra.isnet.inmos.co.uk writes:
- > [...]
- >> The symptoms are both buttons work but the mouse won't move at all !!!
- >> I have tried the mouse on my friends Amiga and it works, I have also
- >> swapped the CIA's over and still no joy, I suspect the +5 volts ? line
- >> has died is there a fuse on the motherboard somewhere.
- >
- > Bingo! There is a picofuse that protects the +5 line to the mouse port.
- > This will probably require a trip to the repair shop.
- >
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- That happened to me also. A local Amiga repair shop told me that they thought
- it was a CIA problem, but another shop told me it was definately the fuse.
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- So I bought the fuse, replaced it, and all worked fine.
-
- In and out, just that quick.
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