Help connecting 360 controller to PC

meanpeoplesuck

Hi guys,

I'm looking for some help connecting a 360 controller to my PC. I am running windows XP Service Pack 2.

I bought a wireless 360 controller which came with a wireless receiver to connect it to the PC, it's all made by Microsoft so it's fully legit.

When I put the software CD into the PC to install the "drivers", everything went fine untill the very end, when after it had completed an error popped up saying something like "an unknown error has occured so the setup cannot be completed."

Now whenever I open the installed program, "Microsoft Xbox 360 Accessories Status", it crashes. And needless to say the PC isn't picking up the controller. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling it a few times and it never works.

Help anyone?

ntlbell

you might have better luck posting this in operating systems/windows.

it's not really a 360 issue.
anyway, have you tried to uninstall/reinstall the driver software?

meanpeoplesuck

Thanks, I've posted the thread in that forum now so if this is too off topic here it can be closed.

I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling and it hasn't worked. But there's no actual "uninstall" option so I had to do it a messy way by deleting all the files and god knows if I actually missed a few files somewhere.

ntlbell

somtimes CD come with very old/flakey drivers.

Is it possible to download the most recent version of the drivers and try and install them?

are you logged into windows as administrator?

if not try this and try and install under a different profile and see does it solve it.

Dades

meanpeoplesuck wrote: »

I've tried uninstalling/reinstalling and it hasn't worked. But there's no actual "uninstall" option so I had to do it a messy way by deleting all the files and god knows if I actually missed a few files somewhere.

Yikes. You might be better doing a system restore. If you don't uninstall it properly it won't reinstall proper. In XP you have "restore points" where the computer resets itself to the state it was at that point in time. You don't lose any documents you have created, but any software installed in the meantime disappears.

If you don't set a "restore point" manually I think XP sets one at intervals itself. Check your XP help for details.

meanpeoplesuck

Yeah I've downloaded a couple of versions of the software online.

By a couple of versions I mean the most recent version and an older version just to see if it would work.

I've tried a few things now and am a bit confused as to where I stand, what I really need to do is 100% wipe my PC of any trace of this software/controllers or anything and start from total scratch so I can be talked through it properly. But I dunno if that's possible.

Also this profile that I'm on is the administrator one, I'll make a new one and see if i can install anything

Edit : I'll do a system restore now and go back like a week to make sure nothings left of it!


Edit 2 : Ok I did a system restore back to before I ever installed any of this 360 controller software. However after the restore the program is still there! Restoring the system hasn't gotten rid of it...

brav

You should be able to remove the software from the add/remove programs in control panel.
It is listed as Xbox 360 acessories

meanpeoplesuck

It's still in my Start > Programs menu, but doesn't show up when I go to Control Panel > Add/Remove programs.

And it still opens when I click on it in the start menu so it's not like there's just an old menu left behind...


This is what is currently happening when I click into the software. I click for help like it prompts me to, the help window opens, and then the program crashes.



This is of course the software I installed yesterday and I can't seem to get rid of it.

Dades

meanpeoplesuck wrote: »

Edit 2 : Ok I did a system restore back to before I ever installed any of this 360 controller software. However after the restore the program is still there! Restoring the system hasn't gotten rid of it...

Okay that's odd indeed.

What OS are you using? Is that a mac or some sort of Mac OS emulator?
I know nowt about mac stuff I'm afraid.

meanpeoplesuck

Ha I only realised now how misleading the screen could be!

It's just windows but with one of those theme things added on, so it changes the menus and things to look a bit more mac-ish. It's XP SP 2 though so it should behave the same as normal windows (dunno if thats a good or bad thing )