Getting my Apple Mighty Mouse to work with Windows XP
I bought an Apple mouse back in August and after a week of playing around with it, never really got it to work. It would detect but when it claimed to have been connected it just wasn’t. I would look at this box
wiggle the mouse and… nothing. I tried again a few days ago and it seems all my pain was due to a lack of patience. While I waited for 10 seconds and giving up I should have taken my time since XP was figuring out that I didn’t have the code to pair the mouse and it was going to have to ask me for it. This can take 30 seconds or so. So, to fix it I waited until the pop up box asked me for the code (0000) and then it paired successfully. It now works every time which is just awesome.
My new problem is getting it to synch every time i reboot…
Finally fixed my broken fan.
I love my Samsung NC10 Netbook, I really do. I put in a 500Gb drive, upgraded the ram to 2Gb and put in a FM transmitter and Mini SD card reader. I’ve opened it so many times its missing half the screws… But it has, or rather had, a rather annoying problem. A few months ago the fan started to occasionally make some noise. It got louder and louder and I took it apart to blow the dust out a few times but it was still noisy.
Finally last week it stopped turning altogether. I had already been to a couple of local store here in Costa Rica to see if I could get a replacement part. They told me to try e-bay… At least on e-bay the replacements were only £14-24, getting a new one from a site in the UK would be £50… That’s 1/6 the cost of the unit, and its only a year old!
I had a crappy fan blowing air at the back of it but Melissa (my new gf) and I wanted to head to Nicaragua tomorrow for the weekend, so this wasn’t a good solution. I took it apart again, removed the fan/heatsink and blasted it with WD-40. I was barely turning at all. I tried finding how the fan attached to the heatsink and gave it a knock which led to the fan disconnecting entirely.
It seems the fan is only really attached by the force of the magnets in the moving part and presumably this was full of dust and gunk, slowing and eventually stopping the fan. I blasted the inside with more oil, wiped off the excess, put it back together and … it now works!!
Try this before you send yours to the repair place or pay £50 for a new fan!