I have had my FSX computer shut down power off for 6 months.Fired it up and everything good but none of 3 throttle quads working.Green lights on but when I unplug from sub port I do not get the bong sound when I do that.They are not recognized by Windows or  FSUIPC.Cannot believe all 3 crapped out when not running.Rebooted etc no luck.Help pleas.Thank you Ron.

1 hour ago, rpowers said:

I have had my FSX computer shut down power off for 6 months.Fired it up and everything good but none of 3 throttle quads working.Green lights on but when I unplug from sub port I do not get the bong sound when I do that.They are not recognized by Windows or  FSUIPC.Cannot believe all 3 crapped out when not running.Rebooted etc no luck.Help pleas.Thank you Ron.

If by subport you mean a USB hub, for testing I'd try making all USB connections directly into the computer's USB ports, one at a time and see what happens. Right now the USB hub is a possible point of common failure.

I would also make sure the Win10 Op Sys has not put the USB port(s) you are using to 'sleep' as a power saving option which would not be uncommon. To check this you can go into the Control Panel Device Manager and under the Universal Serial Bus Controllers option make sure whatever USB ports you are using can't be powered down by the computer (box below should be unchecked). Since I'm using a desktop computer and battery power is not an issue, I make sure none of the USB ports can be turned off by the computer.

Al

 

Edited October 28, 20205 yr by ark

Thank you.Unfortunately I am running Win 7 that for some reason would never update to 10.No idea why but it is what it is I guess.Thought I bought it legitamently.Computer was shut down but still had power going to it.Ron

3 minutes ago, rpowers said:

Thank you.Unfortunately I am running Win 7 that for some reason would never update to 10.No idea why but it is what it is I guess.Thought I bought it legitamently.Computer was shut down but still had power going to it.Ron

Windows Advanced Power Management was there in Win 7 as well.   Ask me.  I know from experience and it caused me terrible difficulties with Saitek products until I later learned about it after building a new Win 10 system in late 2015.  I experienced the same issues under Win 10 until I discovered the cause.  I have posted literally a score of times about it over the past five years here on Avsim.  You may instead have an actual hardware issue.  But pursuing the APM avenue is worth a try.  It is a two-step fix and there have been very recent topics here about it.  Please seek those out.  Its the Device Manager avenue to make sure the Saitek device is clearly identified, and that Power Management is deselected.  But there is also a small app that needs to be applied to patch a windows registry setting.

No guarantee it will fix your particular issue, but it takes few scant minutes to find out.

Can you please give me an idea what wording I need to search for what you referring to.I searched for to pilot and came up with a number of posts but did not see one regarding this issue.Will try again.Thank you

Sorry I mea nd sub port on computer.I st clicked on my ch yoke and pedals properties and have no option for turning off power saving.I just tied unplugging all three quads and rebooting computer thinking that might clear out quads.Then I rebooted but still did not get bong sound when plugging quads back in and they still not recognized.I have had computer shut down for long periods previously and not had this problem

Update.I just plunges throttle in to my office computer Win10 and it recognizes it.I even found the power management option under devices etc and it cod on.I cannot find this option on my FS computer Win7.Looked under my CH yoke and not there either.

Amazing.I somehow blew the breaker for computer outlet etc.Reset it and rebooted.Gues what!All 3 quads now working.Go figure.Still going to go with new computer and FS 2020 after 1st of year.That when things really get boring in corn and bean field area of Illinois.🤣Ron