Saitek Pro Flight Rudder Pedals

[phil]

Hi all,

Got lost. After moving house and resetting the network, it came out that my rudder pedals are not recogized by the system (vista 64). Downloaded drivers etc.... no way. Still I get the message "USB device not recognized". I have been moving home several times and never got here... Any clue?*

Thanks for helping

Philippe

[Phil Bunch]

Does the Windows "Device Manager" software offer any clues?  E.g., any symbols indicating a dysfunctional device?  Does anything change if you "scan for hardware changes" within the device manager?   Sometimes for me, rebooting  and *then* plugging in the non-functioning USB device helps.  I suggest that you rule out bad USB ports by changing the device to a new USB port, preferably directly into the PC's own USB ports rather than via an external USB port expander device - some USB devices insist on being plugged directly into a PC-based USB port.  Similarly, is it possible to plug the non-functioning device into another PC to verify that it works?  If it's possible to swap out the USB cable, that would be good to try, too.  One thing at a time, of course!

I realize all these suggestions are things you've probably already tried and found irrelevant but I would like to try to help starting with the simpler things to try.

[phil]

Thanks Phil

Indeed I tried all that.... still "Unknown device" even on another machine.... The only thing I cannot do is to change the USB cable (one end is embeded in the device...)

Sob....

[John Golin]

phil;

Have you tried a different OS as well as a different machine? Only because Vista sucks and I wouldn't put it past Vista to break.

[phil]

Phil

Yes I did that on 7 as well. (between you and me... I croos my fingers... I am one the rare Vista user VERY happy the OS.... not a signle bug with this machine which  is now several years old...)

I am now thinking replacing the pedals..... I'll see that next week and will give a chance for a solution over the week-end

Thanks Phil for your assistance

Phil

[Richard McDonald Woods]

Phil,
I am also been one of the happy Vista users. Although I now have 2 Win7-32 PCs and a mighty Win7-64 PC as my rig, I used to have auto-update on for Vista and noticed a good improvement through the years

[Cpt_Morgan]

Hi.
My name is Javier. I'm from Spain. Sorry for my poor English!
Looking for solutions to solve the same problem as that of Phil, i found this post.

My Saitek Pro Flight Rudder Pedal is not recognized by Windows 7 64-bit
I'm try with other PC (also with W7 64Bits) giving the message "unknown device"

Is there any solution?

Thaks for your assistance.

[Alex]

Hi guys,

I had a similar issue like that and missed this information:

Alpha 12:
• Analysis text file "USB-Detect.txt" is now generated at sim start again for testing.
• A pref file, e.g. Default.pref, now contains a text line called "UsbUnknownIncl=0" which can be edited with a text editor. When set to "UsbUnknownIncl=1", all unknown USB devices (wireless keyboard etc.) will appear on the USB page. The text line "UsbUnknownIncl=0" is generated when Alpha12 is loaded and exited. The standard setting is "UsbUnknownIncl=0", i.e. wireless keyboards etc. will not appear on the USB page.

Regards,
Alex

[Cpt_Morgan]

Thank you very much, Alex.

Regards.

[Cpt_Morgan]

Hi Alex
I do not manage to find the file " USB - Detect.txt " that you mention not even the file "*.pref".
Where I can find it?

[Alex]

Assuming that your software is installed on drive c: please look for:
USB-Detect.txt is located @ c:\\Aerowinx\\Developers
Default.pref is located @ c:\\Aerowinx\\Preferences

Regards,
Alex

[Cpt_Morgan]

Hi.
Sorry, I don't have this sim. But, I need repair my Saitek's rudder pedal.

Is there a demo version of the simulator, just to try to fix my pedals?

[cavaricooper]

No, there is no demo version AFAIK.

C