Razer decided to hide the screws underneath the label and underneath the PTFE plastics.
Serial number blurred to protect the guilty Disassembling the Razer Deathadder Chroma mouse. Once you have recovered the USB cable from this mouse we are done with it. There are other things that can be salvaged too such as the red LED but there really isn’t much inside beyond that. Heavy liquid damage to the Omron switches will cause them to stick and it’s practically impossible to clean out because of how small those switches are. You may want to save the mouse board if you have soldering abilities as the left and right mouse button can be used to replace the Omron switches that are on the inside of your Razer Deathadder Mouse. Once we popped the mouse plastics off the insides of this dell mouse are crazy simple! In fact we don’t need to go any further and we can simply remove the 5-pin USB cable from the mouse main-board. This mouse only has one screw so and afterwards we have to pry the plastic clamps apart. You don’t have to be gentle with the plastics since we are about to scrap this mouse for all of its parts. Recovering the replacement cable.įirst, we are going to take apart the old mouse that we want to get the parts from. You will need a set of jewelers Phillips and Flat-head screwdrivers. So what we will be doing is transplanting a cable from a Dell P/N: 0C8639 that we got for a whole dollar at a local used computer store! The average repair time is around 5 to 10 minutes. It’s just the cables on both of these mice that are giving us real crap. This repair is not even going to have me reaching for the soldering iron this time around! All of the electronics within the Razer mouse at the time of this blog entry are actually in perfect working order. The buttons feel about as nice as our Microsoft Intellemouse. But you kind of got pwned in the mouse department! This is a little sad to us because in many respects we do like the Razer mouse even over our Corsair RGB mouse in some cases. I hate to say this to a proud Razer owner.
In fact, the amount of copper that is in your Razer Mouse is about as much copper as you would expect in a 3rd party android data cable from China. But no! the amount of copper in these wires is significantly less then a mouse from Dell computers. You would expect Razer to spare no expense. This mouse brand new it retails anywhere from 40-60 US dollars which to be brutally honest is stupidly overpriced. Now at first you’re probably thinking to yourself that the braided cable would indicate some level of higher quality with their product. Both of these problems are related to actual cable of the Razer Mouse. The second one likes to drop out if you move the mouse in the wrong direction. the first Razer mouse produces no power upon plugging it into the USB port. There is not just one Razer mouse but two that have arrived with problems. The problem with the Razer Deathadder mouse. Please check out the FAQ for a complete list of general questions and answers about this site. If you do not feel comfortable performing this type of repair then please find someone who is more confident to help you. By performing these types of repairs or modifications you void whatever warranty you may or may not have on your product. This site will not be held responsible for any physical, mental, or psychological damage that could occur when performing this type of repair to your own mouse. Hopefully repairing it! Note: The model of the razer mouse is: RZ01-0121 Read on if you want to see more! The usual disclaimers: We will be diagnosing and disassembling it. Yes, ladies and gentlemen along with all of the boys at sea. Now there’s a Razer Deathadder Chroma 2014 mouse sitting on my bench! It is fitting that right after repairing a Razer Keyboard that there is now a mouse to go with it. Now a Razer Mouse has appeared on my bench!