Wednesday, 22 June 2011

How to fix a Logitech MX3000 Lazer Mouse for free

I will begin by saying that i had bought a Logitech MX3000 Mouse / Keyboard Combo package from Futureshop a couple years ago for around $100 Can.
The mouse and keyboard is awesome ! This was my first Laser mouse and
i was impressed by the difference compared to optical mice,
especialy when it came time to play FPS games :)

Sadly eventualy i started to have weird problems with my mouse.
Although i have never had any problem with the keyboard at all.
The mouse started double clicking when i was single clicking on me
and i tried everything imaginable to fix the problem and nothing worked.
After a year of the clicking problem getting worse on and off
i finally broke down one day and went to Wallmart and
bought a cheap Logitech optical mouse for $15.

I notice right away the poor performance of this new mouse right away.
no matter what surface i put it it on it seemed sketchy and weird.
And my old laser mouse would work flawlessly on ANY surface.

So after struggling through the night with my new mouse i decided to return it
and then i had any idea :)

I took apart the new mouse and my old mouse and compared the micro switches
and they were a match. muahhaa

So out comes the soldering iron :)

Since i already completed this project about 2 months ago i can not
post any pictures of the repair process. But its fairly simple to do..
Un screw the plastic covers with a philips screw driver etc.

The key is to heat up one side of the pins and jump to the other side
so you can slowly rock back and forth the pins out to remove the switches
I did use flux strips and flux acid paste to clean the holes out before i put
the switches back on the circuit board and then used new solder.

The last step of the proccess is putting the new mouse back together with
the faulty micro switches and putting the mouse back in the retail packaging
and returning it back to Wallmart with your receipt for a full refund lol

So after a couple months i havn't had one single problem with my mouse :)
I love my mouse and i don't want another one, i want what i already have to work !

I hope this can help someone else out there.
It may not be obvious that weird activity can simply be a faulty mouse.
And good luck getting any support from logitech over at their forums
this is a common problem and in many years of complaints they have yet
to acknowledge there is any problem to the general public..

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