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ahofle:
Good luck.  Please post back when you resolve it...others may later search for this same problem and find your solution.
Gambit:
Could be shorting one pin to ground.

After soldering, make sure none are touching or shorting together then use a hot glue gun to cover them.
esvedebe:
Well, I tried the powered USB hub... it didn't work.  :hissy:


--- Quote from: Gambit on August 23, 2006, 11:41:57 pm ---Could be shorting one pin to ground.

After soldering, make sure none are touching or shorting together then use a hot glue gun to cover them.

--- End quote ---
I checked the circuit board, it has one ground, I daisy chained it to all buttons and it is not touching any other pins. So how to check if it is shorting with a pin.

I do have a multi-meter (or how is it called), but I don't have I clue of how to use it. Is this thing able to check all my connections, if so how?
Does anybody have some tips or a website on how to use a multimeter on a soldered circuit board?

I do have the feeling that the microswitches of the stick have something to do with it. Everytime I use the stick intensively it crashes. So could the microswitches be faulty, or is that not possible?

I'm totally lost now, any help is appreciated
ahofle:
It doesn't work at all?  Or it works and then vanishes after playing a few minutes like before?
esvedebe:

--- Quote from: ahofle on August 24, 2006, 05:14:09 pm ---It doesn't work at all?  Or it works and then vanishes after playing a few minutes like before?

--- End quote ---
It worked like it did before. It's recognised as a gamepad and I can play for a while until the action gets intensive, than it gets unresponsive.
It's still recognised by Windows in the control panel, but unresponsive, then I unplug and plug in it again and it works (for a while).

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