Dear Nick,
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I have a problem.
The other day, watching some video's on the internet, me an the mrs got a bit rowdy and poor old LappyR45 was thrown from the bed.
There are two USB ports at the side that I use a lot for USB sticks and HDD's, but primarily the mouse.
Well, to cut a long story short and spare you the details, the mouse somehow found its way to be ripped out and take the little black spacer - the one that forces the pins to touch; has grooves in it for the connecting bits - along with it.
I tweezed it out, as putting it back into the now, spacerless USB slot. If I put it in at a certain angle and put a lateral pressure on things, the mouse will work occasionally. I wouldn't trust it with more data than that, even if we fell in love, got married, did the whole kids and midlife crisis thing and then retired into the countryside - so I'm not sticking my (st/d)ick in that, thank you very much.
Let alone allow her full access to my HDD and Data Cards.
My computer (XP sp 2 / NT 5.1 ) reported that I have 4 USB connectors, so I found the two at the back. I've only had this laptop a few years, so obviously I'd know that. I must've just forgotten or something
what a dimbo, but thank fuck there are 2 - never used - USB's at the back. We use this on the TV when playing adventure games, as the screen's much bigger and the resolution's the same (for The Beast, it isn't so good, as the highest res seems so low...).
It means we can play from the sofa, so it's all good. Better than it microwaving one of our reproductive organs (maybe both) by using it in bed all the time.
Anyway - I didn't really cut anything short, did I? :/
Can I just open up the Lappy and superglue the broken spacer back onto the m/b's broken USB slot?
My only trepidation is that this baby is overclocked quite a lot. It may be Old Reliable, but I can push it to modern games that don't require, as minimum, dual core. This is only a Celeron M.
I can live with 14-22 FPS during the village defences in Mount and Blade, for example.
But it does it hot as buggery.
Hot enough to melt superglue and have it run all over critical components? Idk.
I'll have to google / test the melting point of Loctite for that.
You reckon it's worth a try, or should I just not bother?
Yours faithfully,
Peter Austin, Age 29.
What's with this no editing stuff?
I was trying to edit this in:
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Offending software (if applicable) - idk what I need, I have to tell you the soft I'm having probs with. Semantic difference could cause understanding issues. Friendly advice.)
Edited by Frodo, 19 April 2010 - 09:41 AM.
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But using some kind of quick-dry super glue could work. As long as it's only a drop, I doubt it would melt. But maybe doing some more research on it could help. 
Frodo, on 19 Apr 2010, 10:43 AM, said:
