Xbox 360 PC wireless gaming Receiver  

soccergum said:

okey i downloaded the new software for windows 7 64bit and when i go to update the driver in device manger i select update drive and then click let me choose and when i click on the microsoft xbox 360 accesories there is no choice for windows common controller or what ever! i dont know what im doing wrong! honestly on the box they should not of said that it was compaitable with windows 7 if you have to do all this... i doubt it matters but i built my computer.

When you get to the part where you are browsing for the driver manually
just choose show all and look under microsoft, you should then see the Microsoft Common Controller for Window Class

Reboot your computer even, then plug the gaming reciever in.

Mossflower- Great post. I Bing-ed this question and yours was the first up. Thank you.

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windrider said:

soccergum said:

okey i downloaded the new software for windows 7 64bit and when i go to update the driver in device manger i select update drive and then click let me choose and when i click on the microsoft xbox 360 accesories there is no choice for windows common controller or what ever! i dont know what im doing wrong! honestly on the box they should not of said that it was compaitable with windows 7 if you have to do all this... i doubt it matters but i built my computer.

When you get to the part where you are browsing for the driver manually
just choose show all and look under microsoft, you should then see the Microsoft Common Controller for Window Class

Reboot your computer even, then plug the gaming reciever in.

I looked at microsoft, but it doesnt have Microsoft common....

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/3238/divera.jpg

The reason this happens is because you bought a chinese knock off. I bought one too and I had to install it like walkers post said. It works fine though.

caiodaedel said:

windrider said:

soccergum said:

okey i downloaded the new software for windows 7 64bit and when i go to update the driver in device manger i select update drive and then click let me choose and when i click on the microsoft xbox 360 accesories there is no choice for windows common controller or what ever! i dont know what im doing wrong! honestly on the box they should not of said that it was compaitable with windows 7 if you have to do all this... i doubt it matters but i built my computer.

When you get to the part where you are browsing for the driver manually
just choose show all and look under microsoft, you should then see the Microsoft Common Controller for Window Class

Reboot your computer even, then plug the gaming reciever in.

I looked at microsoft, but it doesnt have Microsoft common....

http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/3238/divera.jpg

Did you click on "Show all compatible devices"

Xbox 360 PC wireless gaming Receiver

Got a virus last week and did a quick reformat and I discovered that the windows common class driver location was not there. To fix this I went the Microsoft website and downloaded the Xbox 360 Accessories Software 1.2. Once I installed this suite the driver option was then available by manually installing the driver. The accessory software is not an option, you must install it!

I bought a generic xbox 360 wireless receiver for PC and it works perfectly on my vista 32bit system, but will not work with my windows 7 64bit pc.
I manually install the drivers and all the works, but the controllers won't connect to the receiver.
Any ideas what could be wrong and/or what I can do to make them work?

SolaceFate said:

I bought a generic xbox 360 wireless receiver for PC and it works perfectly on my vista 32bit system, but will not work with my windows 7 64bit pc.
I manually install the drivers and all the works, but the controllers won't connect to the receiver.
Any ideas what could be wrong and/or what I can do to make them work?

Yes follow Walkers Post on first page, and also keep in mind post above yours if you don't get the Microsoft Common Controller to show up.

windrider said:

SolaceFate said:

I bought a generic xbox 360 wireless receiver for PC and it works perfectly on my vista 32bit system, but will not work with my windows 7 64bit pc.
I manually install the drivers and all the works, but the controllers won't connect to the receiver.
Any ideas what could be wrong and/or what I can do to make them work?

Yes follow Walkers Post on first page, and also keep in mind post above yours if you don't get the Microsoft Common Controller to show up.

I've already done both those things and it still will not connect the controllers. any other ideas?

thank you

After a reboot, try a different USB port and see if it works then.