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Steelseries Rival 700 Gaming Mouse: RIVAL 700 OLED HAS BROKEN where I fix it?

Fri, 16 Mar 2018 06:28:05 -0700

Hello friends, I have a RIVAL700, but the OLED has broken, is there any place that sells this piece?

thanks

Steelseries Aerox Wireless: Scroll wheel not working properly?

Tue, 01 Oct 2024 21:01:35 -0700

Scroll isn't working properly, when you try to scroll it will stagger or even go the opposite way you want it to.

Steelseries Aerox Wireless: Slightly loose side panel

Fri, 29 Dec 2023 06:57:22 -0700

My side panel on the brand new Aerox 5 wireless is slightly loose. It is barely visible with the naked eye, but you can feel it during gaming as you grip the mouse and move around - it is kinda annoying.

Does anyone has the same issue or know how to fix that? I think that it may be fixed just by tightening some screw inside but haven't opened the mouse yet - since I did not find any teardown online even for Rival 5 that has the same body (to be safe - not used to modding like this).

I am attaching the example of what the issue sounds like since it is barely visible in person :)
https://youtu.be/PKzMLFvvDh8
https://youtu.be/F5WX_Woki84

Thank you for any reactions.

UPDATE:
I have inserted a piece of paper to reduce the clearance and it seems to work.
Going to get some black paper from my local store and trim it to blend in as a temporary solution until the teardown/disassembly tutorial comes out.

⟐ Answered December 29, 2023 at 6:57 MST

Steelseries Rival 700 Gaming Mouse: What's the name of this part inside the Rival?

Sat, 25 May 2019 23:51:11 -0700

I recently did a RMA on my Rival 710 which required me to break off the mouse 1 & 2 buttons by peeling them off the mouse and snapping them off completely.

I decided to completely disassemble the mouse and would like to make a guide showing that process for the Rival 710 (Would most likely work for the 700 as well, since they are very similar).

I’m curious if anyone happens to know the name of this part that the mouse buttons were attached to, and if anyone has possibly seen a place to pick up another one short of ripping it out of another mouse.

⟐ Edited by author May 25, 2019 at 23:51 MST

Steelseries Aerox Wireless: RMB has no travel.

Mon, 03 Nov 2025 08:50:32 -0700

RMB only clicks when pulled upwards, has no travel for downwards click. Bent Plastic piece maybe?

Steelseries Rival 700 Gaming Mouse: The left button has stopped working, anyway to replace?

Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:18:56 -0700

The left button has stopped working, anyway to replace? I opened it and cleaned it, but the button switch itself stopped working.

Steelseries Aerox Wireless: Malfunction glitch no lights

Wed, 03 May 2023 16:04:40 -0700

okay so please read I own a pc and Xbox series x I use the mouse in both devices I have never had any issue with this mouse until 2 days ago all the lights shut off I have connections issues and absolutely no lights will come on I have followed all of steel series instruction it is the aero 9 I was playing call of duty on Xbox and the mouse just glitch side buttons became delayed and the led shut off and will not come on at all if I switch to Bluetooth no light if I reset no light no matter what

SteelSeries Mouse: Steelseries Aerox 3 (2022) Solder Pad Repair

Tue, 17 Feb 2026 08:23:50 -0700

I am a beginner to soldering and have since found out why I messed this up... I was running the iron at like 660C when it should have been closer to 360C, but I also still had the issue of desoldering the mouse switch in general. Seems like no matter how long I held the iron on the pin of the switch, it would not loosen up at all. I made sure the iron was hot enough by melting some solder on it, still could not desolder existing switch. Tried using solder wick, nothing happened because the existing solder connection would not melt/loosen. I had to add fresh solder to the existing solder in order for the iron to be able to loosen the switch at all... After fighting it for a while, got impatient and got the switch off, but took the copper pads off with the existing switch. From what I saw all connector pins had pads, but only the center pin connector has track running to it, would that be the only pin connector I would need to repair? I have already scratched the black coating off the PCB to expose the copper track. I assume I need to purchase thin copper wire and re-establish that track connection on 1 side since I don't see any track being ran on the top of the PCB. Any advice would help, already ordered thin copper wire for this purpose and will post pics of what the board looks like. (I have a Kailh switch I am planning to put in)

⟐ Edited February 17, 2026 at 8:23 MST

Steelseries Rival 700 Gaming Mouse: Stopped Working while playing

Sat, 23 Sep 2017 22:56:33 -0700

While playing suddenly stopped working.. only light at the scroll works..

I tried to reconnect.. it did not work... even i restarted my laptop..failed..