Amiga 1000 Mouse Dead

[beller]

I picked up a dust-bin sale A1000 last year and finally got around to tearing it down to clean it today.  When I tested it last year it worked fine, though given the amount of crud inside the drive I wonder why.  The inside was full of carbon colored soot!

I took it apart and cleaned it, washed the case etc.  Put it back together and it booted right up.  However, the mouse is non-responsive.  I've used two know good mice to be sure.

The right button does generate a menu but it doesn't register movement...

Suggestions?

[beller]

Thanks for the suggestions!  I've been looking around the net and, I think, I need to look at the grounding on my drive.   I think it might be the cause of it.  Won't get around to tearing back into it until the weekend...

[beller]

Finally got back to the A1000 this afternoon to see why the mouse quit.  As I suspected, I had grounded the drive on a bad spot.

First, I've learned never remove the ground wire from the A1000 motherboard!  Take it off the drive!

When I reassembled the A1000 booted and everything is working great!  I'm running the Electronic Arts Polyscope demo for a bit just to make sure nothing smokes!

Thanks again for the tips, lucky it was simple user error!

Bob