Need more specific Info::::

[Demonwarp69]

Ok searched these formus and around the net for some answeres on this goofy stick.

My throttle and stick work fine, the led's on the throttle do not work basically 80% of the time, usually if I reboot the computer. And the led's on the stick become "stuck" at whatever brightness they were at when the trottle led's died.

Also the mfd is hokey as hell.......sometimes it works sometimes the back light goes out, sometimes it displays the correct time.......sometimes it dont...

for 200 bones Im pretty surprised by the shoddy quality of this hotas.....I read alot of reviews but never did come by here and see if there were alot of problems.....gah I wish I had......

Its not my system. I have plenty of other USB HID devices that all work fine. I have a generic HP keyboard and logitec mouse. The Hotas works and can be programed easily enough, but the leds are hokey and the mfd is a joke.......which quite frankly were the deal breakers for me. I was gonna get the ch but I figured the led's would be cool and that the mfd would be handy.......

also Ive seen reviews stating that you can change the color fo the led's where is the option for this?

Specs:

amd 64x2 3800
500w powersupply
2 gig of ram
1 terabyte harddrive


The only way ive had any luck with the issue is to uninstall the drivers and then reinstall but..........if i reboot about 50 % of the time the throttle leds' will not come back on and the stick led's get stuck........

[Demonwarp69]

did some experimenting.........ok the easiest way to get it to function properly is to do the following steps:

1. Hold down a windows key and tap the Pause/Break key ( or get to system properties via control panel the hard way)

2. Click on Hardware tab.

3. Click on Device Manager button.

4. Click the +sign next to Human Interface Devices

5. Right click "Saitek X52 Pro Flight Controller (HID)

6. Left click "disable"

7. Right click "Saitek X52 Pro Flight Controller (USB)

8. Left click "disable"

9. Now enable them in reverse order
(right click X52 Pro usb then left click enable, right click X52 Pro HID then left click enable)

10. Any crazy LED's should come back online and function properly, MFD should also reset itself.

YOUR Milage May Vary

[BUFF]

Either your USB ports aren't supplying enough power (the X52 pushes the limits of USB) or chances are that you are using an nForce chipset which is known to be a bit funky sometimes with USB.

The LED colour changing functionality apparently exists in the current driver but the new version of SST hopefully out this month is supposed to make it easier to use.

[Demonwarp69]

hmm Im not sure of the power supplied to my usb ports. they are all usb 2.0 ports.
as stated before I have a 500 watt powersupply. motherboard has enough juice to power usb 2.0

I AM using an Nforce equiped mobo. Do you have links to correct the issue with the Nforce chipset........Ive never heard of it being "funky" can you point me in the right direction?

[BUFF]

you say that you have plenty of USB devices though & it all adds up.

nForce chipsets have had problematic USB since at least nF2 (nVidia usually say that it's the other devices rather than their chipset that fail to meet spec.).
This isn't unique though - pretty much every chipset mfr has had USB problems at 1 point or another - Dell once had to withdraw a whole series because of USB problems with an Intel chipset.
The usual solution is to use a PCI USB card (~£8 in the UK).

[Demonwarp69]

cool thanks for the info