No I had not reseated the card gunthr, I will remember that though. Thanks!
No had not changed anything pyro, one night it was fine, two days later it was not.
I ended up using a Win 98 on another drive that was around. It took care of that problem, but then the stick spiking problem came back and I still could not fly. I played with the CH drivers uninstalling and reinstalling them along with the Win 98 game controllers. Finally got it to work without spiking by using "just" the Win 98 drivers. I will try flying today, (off line is working) but seems to be an endless loop of problems.
Working now though.