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#Dead Mouse Port! Help!!!

    17-May-90 00:57:15
Fm: Mike Schiller 76416,3065
To: Keith E. Coldiron 73647,3564
Keith: I forgot to tell you what happened to my system. On day, the left mouse button just went away, I could hit the LMB all day long and no response. Well, my first thought was that it MUST be a bad mouse, so I pulled out the CBM mouse and hooked it up to the 2000, and it's LMB didn't work either! About a week later I got the machine to the local dealer, and we swapped the motherboard with a new one, LMB worked fine, so off I went to play with my now healthy (so I thought) machine. When I got home, I plugged in all my accessories, and fired up the machine, only to find that the external drive didn't work! If I had an external drive hooked up, the internal drive wouldn't work, and if I put a disk in the external one, I'd get icons on the screen saying DF1:bad DF2:bad DF3:bad all this with only 1 drive hooked up! Well I had to wait for the dealer to get more motherboards in, and just tonight I got a new one in, and now the system is back up to snuff. While there, the dealer upgraded the ROM in the XTBB to version 3.6.1 from 3.5 and also upgraded the ROMs on my 2620 card (he was actually suprised that the system was working with the old ROMs on the 2620 at all. -Mike Schiller CIS: 76416,3065