Warthog Throttle suddenly not working

[dburne]

So I have my hands full as we are preparing to move here later in the week, and today had a little spare time and thought I would take the KA-50 up for a quick spin. Have not got to fly in a few days now.

 

Throttle has stopped working. It is showing up in devices as an unknown usb device with a yellow triangle and exclamation mark.

 

Have tried resintalling the drivers, tried unplugging and replugging back in, tried in different usb ports in both my usb hub and directly in the back of the computer.

 

Sounds like maybe my throttle has bricked?

[1.JaVA_Platypus]

Ow... that sounds horrible. :( Any damage to the cable or the USB plug?

 

USB signals are sensitive to interference.

[dburne]

None that I can see. I am afraid it well may be bricked for whatever reason - in any event we have just too much going on now for the remainder of the week with our move, probably won't get a chance to work with it much now at this point till we get settled into new home next week.

 

Thanks,

[hansangb]

I'm going to go with some pinched cable inside the stick. best of luck!

[dburne]

Yeah that may be, the grandkids were over this past weekend and I came into my office and found them playing around with my hardware, so who knows. I really don't see how they could have done anything to cause this.

 

Oh well I am packing up my office today, will be shutting the PC down for the last time either tonight or first thing tomorrow morning. I have Comcast scheduled to hook me back up for both tv and internet late Monday afternoon at the new home.

 

Once we get settled into our new home I will probably just order another throttle , unless I find a really good sale going on for the complete HOTAS. I always said if anything happened to my Warthog I would not hesitate to get another - have had it since shortly after release. Just nothing out there yet, at least at this time, that I would want besides the Warthog.

 

See you guys on the flip side,