I don't understand what TC meant by "hard booting".
back when CH had gameport CH products ( fighter Stick, Combat Stick, Flight stick, Pro Throttle, etc...) you could hold down (2) buttons during PC boot up and it would reset the programmed settings stored in memory back to a default setting
I just figured it might be worth a shot, since the new ( newer ones ) USB CH sticks also have onboard memory
back when the 1st USB CH Fighter Sticks came out, I was under the impression ( from some other CH users ) that the new USB models of the Fighter stick did not have the 2 MB memory modules like the older gameport versions had... but now they do have some type of Memory storage built into them...... least according to CH Manager userguide/manual they do.....
hope I explained it ok for ya......