IADC Posted November 16, 2014 Posted November 16, 2014 Well after having the slew control go down on my throttle and replacing it with a new one from TM now my Joystick is screwed. It started where it appeared all the buttons were activating at the same time then followed by not even working after a few days. The joystick is no longer recognized by windows as a gaming controller so only the rudder pedals and the Throttle show up in the windows test applet. Windows sees the Joystick under devices and printers but not as what its supposed to be. We tried a second Warthog Stick and that worked fine with no issues so its not the drivers. We tried to reset the firmware but again windows does not see it for what it is. Has anyone else experienced this and if so could TM fix it? I have emailed them and await a reply. Cheers
9.JG27 DavidRed Posted November 16, 2014 Posted November 16, 2014 well, when i bought the warthog, the first stick which arrived had the same problem...all buttons were recognized as beeing pushed...back then i sent it back and got a new one... how long was your stick in use?
IADC Posted November 16, 2014 Author Posted November 16, 2014 I have had mine for around 2 years now and it has worked fine with a just a few minor issues. Interesting you had the same issue. When the controller was still being recognized in the windows gaming controller applet, yes all buttons showed as being pressed. It eventually gave up the ghost though and now there is nothing. I can only presume some circuitry went haywire and eventually just burnt out. I am hoping TM will be able to provide me a replacement part so I don't have to send the whole stick back to them. Cheers for your reply though.
IADC Posted December 17, 2014 Author Posted December 17, 2014 TM sent me some work around options to try and identify the problem with my stick failure. Once I removed the mini dinn port in the gimble where the stick unplugs it was found that one of the little wires had broken free. This was obviously not soldered properly from the get go and finally just parted from its connection. So if you have an issue where the stick loads but does not show up in the game controllers or the stick shows all the buttons are all firing at once then this is the first place to look for problems as I believe several people have experienced the same issue. Unscrew bottom plate, unscrew two screws in the mini dinn port once handle is removed then push the wire through from back to feed out the mini dinn plug so not to pull any wires off that may have been soldered poorly. Check for loose wires.
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