>mine.
>It seems that the track pad bar on my 2400 is not working as it should.
>Sometimes I have to press the button either more than once or just very
>hard in order for it to click-choose; other times when I am selecting a
>group of icons or dragging an icon(s), I loose them as though I had
>released the pad button eventhough I had not.
>
>Has anyone any explanations for this problem and any suggestions on how
>to fix it? It is not severe now but I fear it will get worse.
Seufert covered well the possibility of the button pressing too far, but there is an equal chance that the button is not pressing far enought. That you have to press hard and you lose your selections mid-drag hints that maybe you have the same problem I had.
After you pop up the clicker from the bottom edge with something very thin, you'll see two pieces of foam and about 4 (or 6?) plastic feet under it that act to keep the clicker from traveling too far on the actuator bubble thingie <technical term - grin>. At this point you might as well check to see if the actuator bubble is dimpled in. If so, the clicker is going down too far and the following wont help.
The foam acts as spring to keep the clicker up, so I sliced about 60% of it from the bottom edge (if you take too much you can always glue some back on). The feet you can attack two ways, either shorten them or shave the area they stop against with a very small round bur drill bit.
Try it, can't make it much worse and in my case it got much better, but by the time I fixed it I was a confirmed tap-dragger. . . ---------- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at
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