Left mouse button.

[Gimlix]

Dear MMOchampioners,

My left mouse button has suddenly today stopped working.
Well it still works but i have to click super duper hard to click on something.
I have this mouse for 2 years now and he did every fine yesterday.

It's a steelseries World of Warcraft Cataclysm Mouse.

Is there a way to fix this, it costed me still over 100 Euros, kinda waste to just throw away.

Any ideas?

This is the Mouse:
http://wccftech.com/images/news/Stee...ming-Mouse.png

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I noticed that your in the Netherlands.

When you say you have had it 2 years, is it over 2 years old, or is it comming up to the 2 years old age ?
reason I am asking if it is under 2 years old and you have the invoice to prove that it is under 2 years since you bought it, then you can speak directly to the manufacturer of the mouse and quote EU Directive 1999/44/EC
http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/cons_i...op/guarantees/
which Basically states that you have a 2 year guarantee on goods from the day of delivery to you, and if the goods go faulty within that time frame you are entitled to a repair, or replacement of the said goods.

I know for a fact this works as I had to quote it down the phone to someone at Sharkoon to get a replacement headset (much to his annoyance)


if it is older than 2 years, then you could open it up and see what the problem was

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by the sound of it u got dirt/dust between the outside button and the part that recieves the click, i suggest opening ur mouse (don't ever use force) and if it doesn't open there might be a screw under a sticker (not famallair with the particulair mouse build) and clean it up. make sure that the 2 parts are put on each other right so the click connects. that should fix it.

[Gimlix]

I noticed that your in the Netherlands.

When you say you have had it 2 years, is it over 2 years old, or is it comming up to the 2 years old age ?
reason I am asking if it is under 2 years old and you have the invoice to prove that it is under 2 years since you bought it, then you can speak directly to the manufacturer of the mouse and quote EU Directive 1999/44/EC
http://ec.europa.eu/consumers/cons_i...op/guarantees/
which Basically states that you have a 2 year guarantee on goods from the day of delivery to you, and if the goods go faulty within that time frame you are entitled to a repair, or replacement of the said goods.

I know for a fact this works as I had to quote it down the phone to someone at Sharkoon to get a replacement headset (much to his annoyance)


if it is older than 2 years, then you could open it up and see what the problem was

No it's above, i bought it 2 years ago in the summer.
And i didn't buy it near where i live so hard to retake it to the store.

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by the sound of it u got dirt/dust between the outside button and the part that recieves the click, i suggest opening ur mouse (don't ever use force) and if it doesn't open there might be a screw under a sticker (not famallair with the particulair mouse build) and clean it up. make sure that the 2 parts are put on each other right so the click connects. that should fix it.

That is what i was trying to check inside, but there isn't a way insdie, no screws or anything, i don't know how to get in without breaking it :3

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only option then is to open it up and clean it out.


Start about 1 min in to see how you open it up.

Clean everything, and then put back together, See if that resolves the problem.

[Boogar]

I had the wow gaming mouse from steelseries as well before... its easily the worst hardware investment i ever made, it was functioning properly for like a half a year, i couldnt even be arsed to claim the warranty and just bought new mouse.
I dont think steelseries is a bad company who make shit products, but the wow mouse is horrible piece of hardware.
I'd recommend going for logitech or razer if you want quality mouse.

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I'd recommend going for logitech or razer if you want quality mouse.

indeed, I have a 5 years old Logitech MX1000 Laser mouse. Only thing wrong with it is that one of the extra buttons is broke from me cleaning it out =(

[Gimlix]

Thanks everyone for the amazing tips and help!

I have indeed found a way to open my steelseries mouse, The same video you sended Sigma, Thanks again for that!
I couldn't find a reason what the problem was, he was clean inside and everything looked pretty correct.

I might have cost it myself, by raging and hitting my mouse 100 times over the 2 years.

It is now working correctly again!, Yeaaah!
I took a good look how everything worked and where the button would click if i clicked the left mouse button, and i checked everything, and well so far i know he couldn't reach the button inside the mouse, so to solve that i putted a real small screw under it, so it would lift up a little, so he could reach the button inside the mouse and well that fixed the problem.

My mouse is working 100% again

Thanks again for all the help!