Atari 520stfm joystick problem

[allannon]

When i go play any game the joystick automaticaly goes down and it will not go up, but will go left and right.
I have tried several different joysticks with the same results . Does this mean the port is messed up and is there an easy fix ?

Thanks

[insanity]

This might help you:

http://www.atari-forum.com/wiki/index.p ... ts_Problem