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X-Box Wireless Receiver for PC

Majestic

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Katala found this online for me, for Fathers Day I got a wireless receiver for the PC that allows me to use a Wireless XBox controller on the PC. AFter spending about an hour downloading drivers, editing drivers and such to just get it to work Katala did it in 5 minutes and a couple of reboots. It's why she is a PC repairer and computer admin. :thumbsup:

Posted below are the steps for reference and for anyone who in the future may have the same issues.

This is for Windows Vista 64Bit but should work on XP and Win 7 in one form or another.

  1. Uninstall any drivers you've tried to install already - go to device manager and uninstall the driver for the "unknown device" (which is just uninstalling the device really, seeing there is no driver) and also uninstall any driver software through control panel. LEAVE THE DEVICE PLUGGED IN.
  2. Restart PC.
  3. Download and install the latest driver from the Microsoft Site.
  4. Restart PC.
  5. Go to device manager - you'll notice it still shows up as an unknown device. Right click on it and go Update Driver.
  6. Click "Browse my vomputer for software".
  7. Click "Let me pick from a list of drivers on my computer".
  8. The list will take a while to load. Select Microsoft, then on the right, select Xbox Wireless Receiver for Windows (there might be multiple versions, go with what looks like the most recent one - mine was 2.1.0.1349) and click next. It will warn you about possible incompatibility, install it anyway.
  9. It will ask you to restart. Do it.
  10. Once restarted, go to device manager and you should notice a new slot - "Microsoft Common Controller for Windows Class", and under it, "Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows". Yay!
  11. Now try pairing your controller with the receiver. Click the button on the receiver, then hold the big xbox button on the controller until it turns on and press the very small "connect" button on the forward side of the controller (the side with the triggers), while the receiver light is still flashing. Your controller light should spin for a fraction of a second and then Sync up and the first quadrant should stay lit. Yay! (if not, some people have had success by unplugging their USB devices and restarting and plugging in just the receiver first, then it syncs, then try their other USB devices again).
 
Borg_Queen

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Nice. This one is very helpful. Thanks for posting this. :)
 
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