There is a white hazy residue on my mouse pad...when I flip my mouse over, I find the same white substance on the batteries (although in smaller amounts). Just today I heard a high pitched squeal that I swear "bubbled" a bit.

I'm using a wireless Microsoft Intellimouse. I've had it for at least 3 years.

This sound like leaking battery acid? I don't really want to touch it...and if so, should I just dispose of it (and how?) and get a new mouse?

9/1/2007 5:05:12 PM

Just change the batteries and clean off the acid with some steel wool or something.

9/1/2007 5:07:44 PM

steel wool...check!

is this a problem with the particular batteries I had in the mouse or it is some sort of problem with the mouse itself?

9/1/2007 5:08:26 PM

More like batteries leaking battery acid inside a mouse.

9/1/2007 5:08:37 PM

I know its the battery that is leaking, but being that I'm not exactly sure why (its never happened before) I'm trying to understand if the mouse could have anything to do with it.

9/1/2007 5:11:07 PM

Just be glad it's not a leaking laptop battery. You'd loose your mind, eventually.

9/1/2007 6:11:33 PM

^ your shoelaces are lose. you better tie them before you trip and loose your balance.

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"I know its the battery that is leaking, but being that I'm not exactly sure why"

your batteries are 3 years old. they probably are the cheap ass batteries that came with the mouse.

you need to change your batteries every so often.

welcome to the world.

9/1/2007 6:53:53 PM

i didnt know AA batteries last 3+ years

9/1/2007 7:22:42 PM

send the batteries and the mouse to the batt manuf. they'll pay you well.

9/1/2007 8:43:05 PM

^^^ Maybe I'm just tired, but I'm not sure what your metaphor is supposed to be saying exactly. I'm wearing sandals right now by the way, but they are on a little loose. Since you'd basically have to eat a leaking battery to actually suffer from great enough poisoning to actually cause brain damage, I was hoping it was pretty obvious I was kidding.

[Edited on September 1, 2007 at 9:29 PM. Reason : ]

9/1/2007 9:25:20 PM

Yeah, Joe I'm not sure what you are thinking...but the last time I checked, AA batteries hardly last 2 months, much less 3 years...duh...

9/1/2007 11:07:53 PM

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"Yeah, Joe I'm not sure what you are thinking"

yeah, me either. batteries could, theoretically, last a couple years... but not in a regularly used wireless device

No excuse for this one: I'm a dunce.

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"I'm not sure what your metaphor is supposed to be saying exactly."

i was making a smartass commentary on the widespread misuse of the words "lose" and "loose"

but it was totally overshadowed by my dumbass 3-year battery comment.

so nevermind

9/2/2007 3:11:34 AM

hehe

9/2/2007 6:57:22 AM

^^ Don't go acting all english-major-like on me. Besides, you have to know when most people read they usually only notice the first and last letters and the context. It's why those kinds of mistakes are so common and so often ignored. It's also why most people can fluently read something like:

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"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."

[Edited on September 2, 2007 at 3:27 PM. Reason : ]

9/2/2007 3:22:27 PM

did i just read a justification for being stupid in school and not giving a toss about education?

9/3/2007 5:56:31 AM

did i just see a dirty bed pisser post?

9/3/2007 10:30:59 AM