Is My Joystick Broken?

[_RAAF_Mini]

Having some problems with the Force Feedback on my joystick.

I run a Saitek Cyborg Evo Force.

I have owned it for atleast 4 years now and it still works as far as buttons, throttle and all axis are concerned however when i recently tried to turn the Force Feedback back on i noticed it was not working.
I can set up the resistance in the Control Panel<Controllers<Properties section but when i go to test forces i get the sound, then light but no movement from the joystick.

Back in the day when i spawned in, let say airstart the stick would kick back as if the FF was on, it no longer does that even though in Hardware<Input it is on.

I have checked in my conf ini and FF=1 which is believe is correct.

Am i to believe that the FF motors in this stick are dead or is this a problem i can solve?

I am running Windows XP.
IL2 4.10.1 No Mods

Cheers
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