I opened up my Razer DiamondBack Plasma Limited Edition (Which I’ve had since I was a freshmen in High School). I used many guides including one at I-Hacked.com, Razer Blueprints, as well as one from Dans Data. These helped with opening up the Razer which was pretty simple, except for the part where I had to detach the front side of the mouse. Anyways, after opening it I removed a lot of like, wool or some type of crazy stuff haha, well not a lot but there was a considerable amount accumulated on the scroll wheel which I hoped was the reason for the jerky scrolling.
Oh by the way, what I mean by jerky scrolling is, I would scroll down a page and every 3 scrolls or so it would jerk and scroll in the opposite direction. This is obviously very frickin annoying especially in games like Unreal Tournament 3. I usually use hotkeys to switch weapons in games but in UT3 there are too many weapons and in the middle of the intense adrenaline packed action it’s not sane to reach across the keyboard for the 9 key. There is a method called Pipe Switching which allows one to make it so that, well for example picture it this way. I press the 1 key once and the link gun comes up, I press it again and the rocket launcher comes up. This means that 6 weapons could be put into 3 keys. I haven’t tried this yet and there are some claims that there is a momentary lag when the keys are press which is obviously a huge downfall.
Anyways the jerky scrolling problem is the worst when scrolling through weapons as you might imagine because you would never be able to get to the weapon you want to use. I figured it had to be some type of junk building up around the scroll wheel inside the mouse so I decided to open it up. Like I already mentioned, there was some build up of like, well just dust and the like which I carefully took my time to remove. Anyways I decided to clean things the best I could but don’t see any huge difference, except that now (And I think this is FireFox’ doing since I just turned on ’smooth scrolling’) instead of a huge jerk in the opposite scrolling direction, it just doesn’t scroll for that scroll. Like I said I haven’t tested this extensively yet but from the looks of it the cleaning didn’t have any profound effect.
The problem could be with the scroll wheel checker thing that checks the scrolls and all that, it might have a tiny bit of dust in there that’s causing this or it could be that it’s just too old, after all like I said I’ve been with this mouse for like 4 years now haha, but I still love it.
