Okay, I was trying to change the LED in my mouse. I desoldered the stock LED, but in the process of soldering in the new one, the traces got all messed up (the green stuff started flaking, then the solder wouldn't stick to the board). So I just used the 5v line for the LED (with appropriate resistors). But when I try to use the mouse, Windows wont even detect it. I checked for shorts, and there are none. The LED lights up, and that's it. Is this mouse toast? I'm guessing it is.
sounds to me like the mouse is infact DED dead and if windows wont even detect it thats a good sign even though i dont really know the full situation
That's what I thought.... Good thing it was only a $10 mouse. I guess those traces were more important than I thought.
Not to sound like a jerk, but if it is only a $10 mouse it has probably cheaply done traces and circuitry in it. Which explains why it won't work anymore.
If you can’t do that trace the traces back to another connection point and carefully solder across the newly discovered connections an LED…But what happened is that you created an open in the circuit…you might notice that the LED wasn’t always on full before…when you left it alone for a few seconds it dimmed and when you toughed it got brighter.. as far as the mouse is concerned there is nothing to light your surface because there is not LED connected to where it should be .
