The problem where their favorite color, update driver software. For best results, plug the controller into another usb port on the back of the computer. With the controller won t detected with most windows 8. With new dimmable prismatic led lighting available through full-color range leds, gamers can set their favorite color, cycle through the rainbow, or turn off the lights completely. This is to allow windows to reinstall the driver.
Regular xbox 360 controllers seem to get picked up by windows normally and work just fine, the drivers install and there's nothing that i need to configure in steam or anywhere else, they 'just work'. I would also suggest you to refer to the article.Double click it, update driver, then select it from the lsit. Refer: Update a driver for hardware that isn't working properly Note: You might be prompted to restart the computer. The Xbox 360 Accessories Setup program installs the necessary files to your computer. Click the link to start the Setup program. In Select your operating system language, select the language used by Windows on your computer. In Select your operating system, select the version of Microsoft Windows you are using on your computer.Į.
In select your product select Xbox 360 Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows.ĭ. In Select type of product, select Controller.Ĭ.
Go to the Downloading Gaming Software section of the Microsoft Hardware Web site by following this link:ī. To install the software by downloading it from the InternetĪ. I will provide you the step by step instuctions to install the hardware again on the computer. I would suggest you to follow these methods and check if it helps. Please refer to this article:Ĭode 43: Windows has stopped this device because it has reported problems This usually happens if the device hardware or the deviceĭriver fails.
The Code 43 error is generated when Device Manager stops a hardware device because the hardware reported to Windows that it's having some kind of unspecified problem.
I download from Microsoft's website even install the drivers? If so where are they on the harddrive? I figured i could just install the 360 controller drivers and then point my PC right to them so Windows would just update the "unknown device" with the 360Ĭontroller drivers, but i'm having trouble as you can see.Īlso sorry if this was complicated and you are not sure what's going on, i'm not very tech savvy i'm just trying to help out a friend.Īdditionally here is everything listed in Device Manager: Once i'm at the stage where i can manually select the drivers I can't for the life of me find the drivers for the 360 controller, I'm seeing nothing even remotely close in either the Manufacturer, or Model boxes of that most recent window. Then i uncheck the "show compatible hardware" box, and that brings
Īfter that click the "let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer" and arrive here. I clicked the "update driver"īutton and that gets me to here:, from there i click the "browse my computer for driver software" box, and then i'm here. So then i plug in the controller and go right back through the same boxes as before, until i get to the update drivers button seen here. I download the "Xbox 360 Accessories Software 1.2 64-bit for Windows 7 (EXE)" and ran the installer. So next thing I do is go to the Microsoft website and get the 360 controller drivers from this location: and Says "USB Device Not Recognized" here's a screen cap: (Also when the controller is first plugged in for like 2 seconds all four rings will light up around the big centerĬlicking on the dialogue box brings me to this:, and clicking on the "unknown device" gets me to this window: and , Now when the controller gets plugged in via a USB port on the side of his computer Windows immediately comes up with dialogue box in the lower right hand corner that When he first plugged it into the side of his PC Windows it immediately recognized the controller and the controller just started working with DmC (the steam game he usesĪt some random point (he couldn't specify when) the controller stopped working/responding.
So my friend has a black wired Xbox 360 controller that he bought about 3 days ago. (sorry if that's not specific enough it's a friends PC i just got all that from CCleaner) Also here's the dxdiag stuff:
So first the system specs: MS Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1, AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Processor, 8.0GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti.