lensman
24th June 2007, 00:57
Hi all,
I bought an X52 from Ebay about 8 months ago. Except for problems with the saih***.sys driver, the stick and throttle have been working fine. I fixed the saih075.sys problem by using the beta drivers.
However, earlier today the lights on the throttle and joystick went out. The throttle's USB cable was plugged into the motherboard of my PC. It does not work in any of the 6 rear USB ports, the two front USB ports, or any of the four ports on a powered USB hub.
Win XP Pro SP2's device manager does not see the hardware, and removing the driver and re-installing doesn't work because the installation program thinks there's no device to install.
It does not light up when plugged into other computers (a Mac iBook, and an homebuilt linux box). So, it seems the problem is in the throttle itself. The number on the bottom of the throttle is SZ00348935. Is this a known problem with throttles with that number?
The only additional symptom was that just before the lights went out, touching hat #2 started generating keyboard input at the maximum rate without stopping. Unplugging the joystick from the throttle did not make the input stop. I restarted the machine from Task Manager, restarted FSX, and after a few minutes the throttle and joystick lights went out.
Is there a fuse-equivalent in the throttle housing?
Any suggestions on how to fix the X52 would be welcome.
Thanks!
lensman
p.s. I'm on disability, so unless there's a fix, I'm back to $12 joysticks.
p.p.s. The PC is a Dell 8400, 2 GB RAM, 3GHz Pentium 4 HT, with a Nvida-7900-based video card, w/512MB
I bought an X52 from Ebay about 8 months ago. Except for problems with the saih***.sys driver, the stick and throttle have been working fine. I fixed the saih075.sys problem by using the beta drivers.
However, earlier today the lights on the throttle and joystick went out. The throttle's USB cable was plugged into the motherboard of my PC. It does not work in any of the 6 rear USB ports, the two front USB ports, or any of the four ports on a powered USB hub.
Win XP Pro SP2's device manager does not see the hardware, and removing the driver and re-installing doesn't work because the installation program thinks there's no device to install.
It does not light up when plugged into other computers (a Mac iBook, and an homebuilt linux box). So, it seems the problem is in the throttle itself. The number on the bottom of the throttle is SZ00348935. Is this a known problem with throttles with that number?
The only additional symptom was that just before the lights went out, touching hat #2 started generating keyboard input at the maximum rate without stopping. Unplugging the joystick from the throttle did not make the input stop. I restarted the machine from Task Manager, restarted FSX, and after a few minutes the throttle and joystick lights went out.
Is there a fuse-equivalent in the throttle housing?
Any suggestions on how to fix the X52 would be welcome.
Thanks!
lensman
p.s. I'm on disability, so unless there's a fix, I'm back to $12 joysticks.
p.p.s. The PC is a Dell 8400, 2 GB RAM, 3GHz Pentium 4 HT, with a Nvida-7900-based video card, w/512MB