Saitek Throttle Quadrant - Wiring issues replacing ps2 plug

[Boomerang]

I wonder if any of you fellow simmers / electronic engineers can help me? I bought a saitek throttle quadrant, but was not able to test it, but have found the PS2 plug pins were badly damaged and the plug unusable.

I bought a new PS2 extension lead, and cut the wire so that I splice together and use the new plug. But the wire colours differ from the original lead, so I used a continuity meter to trace each back to each of the pins on both sets of wires, then created a table to match them all up. The power light works, yet there is nothing registering from the 3 levers or the 3 switches either in windows 'game settings' or on the Logitech Yoke program. I did find a pin diagram on the net, but the colours did not quite match what i had. There was also a wire left over on the new lead, and the shielding wire on the old lead, so I connected these together (should I have?).

The ORIGINAL wire from the saitek had the following pin/wire colours... 1. Brown. 2. Black. 3. Orange. 4. Red. 5. Green. 6. Yellow. and the shield wire.

The NEW lead used the following... 1. Orange. 2. Brown. 3. Red. 4. Blue. 5. Yellow. 6. Black. and had a green wire spare.

So I connected the wires (Old/New) 1. Brown/Orange, 2. Blue/Brown, 3.Orange/Red,
4. Red/Blue, 5. Green/Yellow, 6. Yellow/Black, and the Shield wire/Green?. (Pin Diagram I found online only shows 6 wires, does not shown the shield wire, and there were 7 wires in the new lead)

The power light lights up, but I'm stuck there... Cant get any help from Logitech of course, and have searched the far corners of youtube/google for help. Please does someone understand the workings of this, can tell me what i am doing wrong and can guide me in getting it to work. The Yoke works fine. Long-term illness and unable to work means money is short and I cant afford to throw it away.

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[mattkuz]

Had the same problem with bad old connector and i managed it to work with specs below:
(Numbers of pin I took from female PS2 connector specs from wiki, and colors from old cable - i manualy destroyed old plug and checked colors :P.)
1. black
2. brown
3. red
4. orange
5. yellow
6. green
Basically you have to gues what colors of cables are connetced to pins in new plug or just buy only PS/2 male plug to solder with old cable.
7th cable is for gnd i suppose

[Sir John Luke]

i ditched my saitek version and got a new one from Logitech (almost identical).
Saitek had no good drivers.
Logitech version worked out of the box