Author: DOuG pRATt

I’m gob-smacked. Over the moon. Bloody well delighted, and any other British expression of excitement there may be. My Logitech Squeezebox Touch is back from the dead! Because, as I now know, it was never dead.

What was almost dead was its aging, 5V/3A power supply. A multimeter check with no load showed 4.95V, which is okay, but under the load of powering up the Touch it must have been sagging.

Thanks to persistent suggestions from the Lyrion enthusiast community, I bought a new power supply for seven bucks. Now, all is well again. This is just freakin’ wonderful.

First the Panasonic DVD recorder died, followed by the Logitech Squeezebox Touch audio streamer. As trouble always comes in threes, what else can go wrong? Ah, there it is. The touchpad on my Lenovo Yoga laptop computer has stopped working. Not all of the time, but mostly. As it’s either working or it isn’t, I suspect it’s due to a loose internal connection.

Last December was when I said this: “The touchpad on my Lenovo Yoga laptop is awful. I will never buy another Lenovo product again, based solely on this one deficiency.” That trouble must have been an early indication of the failure I am experiencing now. Just as the previous outages of the Touch were hinting at its inevitable final countdown.

I’m using the Lenovo now, but on my desk with a USB mouse. What to do… what to do.