Microsoft Laser Mouse 7000 Recharging Problems
I love Microsoft hardware, regardless of what you think of their operating systems it’s hard to argue they make good mice and keyboards. I bought a new mouse yesterday – a Microsoft Laser Mouse 7000 and left it to charge up overnight but this morning I found it hadn’t. The charge light was flashing red, instead of pulsing green (recharging) or solid green (recharged).
A search shows that this model has problems with its supplied battery. I tried the quick fix for the Microsoft laser mouse not recharging, putting a folded piece of paper on top of the battery to make it press on the battery detector, but this didn’t work for me. A new battery, somewhat thicker than the one supplied by Microsoft gave an initial green glow before it too started flashing red.
If you want to know what battery works with the mouse try an Energiser Rechargeable 900mAh. It has a slightly longer positive terminal and slightly larger girth. The mouse is now recharging fine.
you really should step up to the Logitech mice. I have the MX620 and it rocks. The range is 100x better, the batteries last forever (at least a year), the scroll wheel is much nicer feeling and the tracking is far better.
I use the MS keyboards and their wireless ones always come with a mouse too. I have, literally, a box full of them. (The ones that come w/ the Wireless Natural Multimedia Keyboard Combo)
I had a shocker of a Logitech mouse a few years back so can’t bring myself to try them again. I seem to go through mice a lot quicker than keyboards, the Wireless Natural is my keyboard of choice too, don’t understand why everyone doesn’t use them.
But batteries should be a standard size: if the Energizer is bigger than the standard then it is defective, and if the MS Mouse doesn’t work with standard size batteries then it is defective too. How do you reconcile that with ‘they make good mice…’?
I’ve given up on wireless keyboards and mice precisely because of the need to keep swapping batteries. When do you ever get far enough away from the PC to make wireless useful, anyway?
My guess is the Energiser is the correct size. The mouse is great, even if Microsoft’s battery supplier isn’t, and the point of this mouse is you don’t have to change the battery (well, once you find a correct size one) as it recharges.
I have one wireless mouse for my media center PC when I want to use it as a computer so that’s about 2 metres away and on my desk I use one simply ’cause I hate the mess of wires.