I was waiting to post this until after I tested it out, but it seems many people are frustrated and hopefully this will help.I am having the same problem with random button presses and the yoke will stop responding. After some research, I found out that my USB chipset on my motherboard is designed to go into a low power state after a few minutes and that the Saitek Yoke doesn't like that. I then tried it on a newer computer with a different USB chipset and the yoke works perfectly. I bought a new USB 4 port add on PCI card to put in my older computer and see if it works. I'll post the results soon.

>I was waiting to post this until after I tested it out, but>it seems many people are frustrated and hopefully this will>help.>>I am having the same problem with random button presses and>the yoke will stop responding. After some research, I found>out that my USB chipset on my motherboard is designed to go>into a low power state after a few minutes and that the Saitek>Yoke doesn't like that. I then tried it on a newer computer>with a different USB chipset and the yoke works perfectly. >>I bought a new USB 4 port add on PCI card to put in my older>computer and see if it works. I'll post the results soon.Saitek Pro Flight Yoke System update:Ok, the new USB add on card fixed it! The yoke works great and no more random button presses or problems. Hope this helps.

You should be able to prevent your on board USB ports 'going to sleep' anyway from their properties.

There is no sleep mode. It happens to be a problem with the Intel chipset on the motherboard. It seems some older chipsets may not work properly with the yoke.

Lets just hope this is a possible issue with older Intel chips only. As I've got SIS chips.

Well I'd like to just get mine that was ordered over 2 months ago...http://mywebpages.comcast.net/geofa/pages/rxp-pilot.jpgForum Moderatorhttp://geofageofa.spaces.live.com/

>Well I'd like to just get mine that was ordered over 2 months>ago...On the bright side, you should hopefully be getting one of the new ones that doesn't even have this problem. I had to send mine back. Too much frustration. Hopefully if this issue gets resolved I can order one again.

Can't really see how they can design a USB spec device that has problems with USB chipsets in this day and age...Not like USB is new...

On the Saitek official forum, there's a picture that's claiming to be the inside of one of these yokes. I only hope it's not true, the soldering is appalling.See page 7 of this thread.http://www.saitekforum.com/showthread.php?p=61250#post61250

YIKES! :-eek :-eek :-eekIt looks like its soldered by hand, cables have long uninsulated parts near the pads, there are visible cold solders etc.Pitty... I wanted one for XMas... I will thing about it.Then again, I will know what to do to fix if broken... Reassemble it as it should!George DorkofikisAthens, Hellashttp://online.vatsimindicators.net/811520/1704.png