hello everyone To keep a long story short. I bought a 360 usb gamepad and it won't work on 32bit vista laptop. It tries to download the drivers with no luck. I have tried to download manually from the microsoft website still won't work. When I connect the gamepad to the laptop it recognises a new device and does what it does with no luck, the gamepad guide button works as it should by...

Does anyone know if there are any plans to support the Xbox 360 Chatpad in windows vista? I have the xbox receiver for windows which allows me to use my wireless headset and controller with vista... which works great. I would really like to use the xbox chatpad (that plugs into the bottom of the wireless controller) with windows. It would make the ultimate controller as you could use the...

I just bought a Xbox 360 Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows and a Xbox 360 wireless controller for my windows vista, and I was wondering if there is any way for me to enable the usage of the controller with Windows Media Center, I would really like to use an Xbox controller to control Media center.

Has anyone been able to get a 'work around' for the lack of deadzone support for the 360 controller under Vista? Any help would be awesome Cheers

Hi everyone. I watched Bill Gates keynote on CES 2007 and I heard that I can go to the shop, buy any XBox 360 USB-controller , plug it into my Vista-powered PC and use it in any games. Is that true? No additional software requered? Have anyone tried it?

with Vista 32 bit - just got controller off ebay and nothing works. Don't get the usb thing people are saying - all i got was a controller - nothing else. My brother in law had his 2 wired controllers working fine here the other day and now nothing works..... I even deleted the software and reinstalled it from microsoft and still nothing---help!!!!!

I would like to build a music library on my XBox 360 HDD. I used my XBox 360 to rip music from my CD's. Can I access the music on my XBox 360 from my Windows Vista Ultimate PC? I have a wired network connection and I am set up for Windows Media Center Extender. What's the use in adding a new user to Windows for my extender (MCX1)? I dont have any files in the folders for MCX1.

OK. Windows Update cant find the driver! Installs all drivers for the USB ports etc, but not the crucial driver for the player itself. Anyone have a link to a driver so I can manually install it? This is wierd as I had it working before, so something has gone missing, or blocking somehow. Help!

Hi i'm Maurizio from Italy, i have a Xbox 360 sw updated that with a PC Vista Ultimate sw updated don't work... i have connected through crossing lan cable the network adapters, i've set my one live care for connection with xbox 360 extender (i have try without firewall too), i have shared with WMP 11 the media dirctory with xbox 360, than restarting my xbox and pressing mediacenter button...

i buy an Usb Xbox 360 controller because i spend all my money on my computer an don't have to buy the console and i like the game pad.... i install the driver and it work...... but after some time playing counter strike i was tired of always using the keyboard to chat so i buy a chat-pad for the game pad but i wont work (no driver for it ) but on the box it is write "Chatting with friends...

I'm hoping someone can help me out! i have my 360 controller installed on my vista premium laptop however am finding it hard to get it to work on any games. I dont usually bother with controllers tbh, the last controller i had (a few years ago) came with a program that allowed me to set the buttons on my controller to keyboard commands/keys ie if i pressed forward on my d-pad it would send...

I am unable to get my Xbox 360 wireless controller to connect to the wireless receiver under Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit. The wireless controller is using a standard battery pack. My PC is running a eVga's Nvidia 680i motherboard, which is controlling the USB ports. The wireless receiver plugs directly into one of the motherboard's rear USB ports. If I power the controller on before I turn...

I am wondering if the Xbox 360 Wireless Gaming Recevier for Windows is compatible with Windows Vista 64-bit. If anyone knows I would appreciate your answer, thank you

Hi guys i just bot a microsoft xbox 360 wired controller for pc .Previously i had Win Sp3 and ther was no prob in dowloadin the xbox drivers for sp3 bt recently i installed vista ultimate and when i got to mcft page i cant download vista drivers for xbox i knw drivers are same for both bt prob is when i run most wanted wit controller being connected it was nt detecting then id id a windows upadte...

I've got an XBox controller for Windows, a wired one, but for some odd reason all for quadrants are lit up and flashing on and off, I have the drivers installed from Microsoft and this never happened before.....as I am looking at it, it is still flashing and I don't know why, it used to only have one quadrant lit permenantly....from previous Vista intalls, but since my latest it is now flashing...

I bought the gaming receiver for windows and it worked fine until i bought a logitech MX518 mouse then it stopped working completely. When i plugged it in the green LED light did not come on and vista did not recognize anything. I have read that logitec drivers could stop it from working so i uninstalled the drivers and still nothing, i tried to use my PS2 mouse and still did not work. I have...

Well, when I had XP I never actually got the cam to work completely, but it did show up on Messenger as a working camera, but it froze the program when I tried to use it.. I tried installing it on Vista and have looked for solutions, but it won't work with anything. I have used guides to make it work, but I don't come up with the same stuff. When I go to the device manager it has something about...

Hi all - I cannot seem to get the wireless 360 pad for PC to show up in Halo PC. I have updated the drivers. Also the controller light is flashing constantly - does that mean anything as i've not used one before. I was sure you would be able to use this thing for Halo ?

A question because I am just not sure...Would it be possible to use a gaming steering wheel for xbox 360 on a pc and vice versa ??...They both use usb so I am curious ?? Thanks for all the help you guys and girls do .............Drew

I had no problems getting my xbox360 drive playing hd-dvds on Vista64, but my Realtek AC'97 drivers are only giving up pcm stereo sound. I'm using the digital coax port on a MSI NF4-Ultra Platinum MB, AMD64 x2 4600 cpu, Vista64 Ultimate, PowerDVD7 Ultra, and the 2007/3/12 release AC'97 driver from the Realtek website. ah yes, and Asus en8800gts video, with nvidia 158.18 driver. Anyone...