Hey guys, I bought a second hand X52 about a week ago and it's not been working properly since I got it.
The issue is basically that the buttons on the joystick don't respond properly. Sometimes they don't activate at all when I click them, sometimes they do, sometimes they stay on after I've stopped pressing them, and every so often when I connect the cable to the joystick (from the throttle) they work fine.
The weird part is that the throttle part is totally fine, the axis sensors on the joystick are fine, and the 3 switchers on the base of the joystick work fine too. It's just the joystick buttons that rarely work properly.
I bought a new male to male PS/2 cable thinking that was the issue, but this hasn't fixed it. I'm now thinking that because the buttons on the base of the joystick work ok but the ones on it don't, it may be a loose wire inside the joystick unit somewhere. I did take it apart when I got it to see if I could see anything obvious, but I'm not electronics engineer so I couldn't really spot anything.
Has anyone else had this issue? One thing to add is that when it works fine, all the LEDs on the joystick light up as they should do. When it's not working properly, only some of the LEDs light up, and sometimes in the wrong colour, which makes me thing it could also be an issue with the joystick drawing more power than my motherboard USB port can provide?
Cheers