Installing Xbox 360 Wired Controller - Vista Forums
Here's a mini tutorial for installing the Xbox 360 wired controller if you're having a driver problem.
I was having a small driver problem when connecting the Xbox 360 wired controller to my Vista x64 Home Premium machine. There were two instances of the controller in the Device Manager:
1. Xbox 360 Controller for Windows
2. Controller (XBOX 360 For Windows)
I downloaded the drivers for the controller from the MS site: Download Gaming Software
Once I installed the MS drivers, the device "Xbox 360 Controller for Windows" was successfully installed, but the other device "Controller (XBOX 360 For Windows)" would not install the necessary driver. Even Windows Update couldn't find the appropriate drivers for it.
So if you are having this same problem, follow these steps:
1. First download
and install the MS drivers from the link above. Once installed, connect your Xbox 360 controller to your PC and it will install the driver
for "Xbox 360 Controller for Windows" but it will not find the driver for "Controller (XBOX 360 For Windows)". It will say that it failed to install the driver for that device, but that's okay because we are going to fix that now.
2. Open Device Manager (Start Orb -> right click "Computer" and select Properties -> click Device Manager on top left)
3. "Controller (XBOX 360 For Windows)" should be under "Other devices". Double click on it then click on the Driver tab.
4. Click on "Update Driver".
5. Click "Browse my computer for driver software".
6. Click "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer"
7. Scroll down to "Human Interface Devices". Select it and click Next.
8. Leave the Manufacturer as "(Standard System Devices)" and in the Model pane, select "USB Human Interface Device" and click Next.
