How to Repair a TouchPad, TrackPoint or External Notebook Mouse

How to repair a touchpad, trackpoint, trackball or external laptop mouse. Here is a collection of do-it-yourself instructions. If you have written a free repair guide yourself (or if you know of a report not linked here), please submit a new entry.

Acer TravelMate 800	Miscellaneous tips and tricks for selfmade notebook repairs, how to replace the touchpad (in German).
Apple MacBook	An origami solution to the squishy trackpad button problem. How to fix the trackpad with paper.
Apple PowerBook Duo	Project X'tal: Using a twinkle crystal ball instead of a normal trackball and put LEDs underneath as a hard disk access lamp and a hard disk power indicator.
Apple PowerBook Duo	How to replace a broken trackball (in Japanese).
Apple PowerBook Duo	How to repair a broken trackpad (in Japanese).
ASUS A4740KBP	How to integrate the receiver of an external cordless Logitech USB mouse and keyboard into the laptop case between the rear panel and GPU/chipset heatsink.
ASUS Eee PC 701	Mouse button click repair. Because of the lack of a protruding button, it was necessary to cut a small amount of plastic from underneath the mouse button plastic of the UMPC lid, as the original button is set inside a small circular hole there.
COMPAQ Presario V2000	Integrated Logitech V500 Mouse 2.4GHz wireless dongle: the dongle soldered to the USB port inside the laptop.
DELL Inspiron 8200	ALPS to Synaptics mod guide explaining a touchpad and trackstick conversion.
DELL Latitude C600	Fixing mouse drift with a sledgehammer.
DELL N.N.	Touchpad mouse mod: making a PS/2 PC interface.
IBM ThinkPad i1400	HOW-TO: Laptop resurrection and upgrade, battery revival, membrane keyboard repairs, trackpoint transplant, adding USB ports and wireless LAN.
IBM ThinkPad X20	An illustrated Track-Point(tm) disassembly (in Korean).
IBM ThinkPad N.N.	How to clean the Track-Point(tm) cap (in Korean).
Panasonic CF-1 ProNote Jet mini	Trackball disassembly and HDD exchangement guide (in Japanese).
Sony VAIO VGN-SZ650	De-reversing a touchpad. The touchpad makes the cursor go backwards sometimes. Reversal appears to be at random, other abnormal cursor motions have been observed but reversal is the dominant feature. Users of this notebook have suffered from electric shocks emanating from the palmrest, which unusually is made from aluminium instead of the more usual plastic. The idea for the following procedure came from the knowledge that touchpads work on capacitance and they may be affected by stray charge in the palmrest. The following notes detail a procedure for insulating the touchpad from the palmrest to prevent cursor reversal.
TadPole SparcBook 3	Installing memory, disassembling and adding backlighting and repairing a broken mouse pointer, upgrading Microspeed Trackball.
Toshiba Libretto 50CT	A quick guide on how to install PS/2 mouse and keyboard connections to the standard port replicator.
Toshiba Libretto 100	How to fix the sticky noteook mouse with a small gasket of paper or rubber at no costs.

See Repair4Mouse for repairing and modding guides for external computer mice.