I recently bought an XBox 360 wireless control adapter on eBay. It seems the only way to buy an official Microsoft adapter is via an official retailer and I couldn’t find any on eBay. The adapter I ended up purchasing was, and I knew it was, a cheap(ish) Chinese knock-off.

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I had read around enough to know that it should work, but hadn’t realised how varied people’s experiences had been.The adapter I bought was from the eBay store (a popular Australian, NSW, power seller) and was listed as “WIRELESS GAMING RECEIVER – Xbox 360 Controller on PC”. The store was easy to deal with and the device arrived in under a couple of days via express post.A genuine wireless adapter will have “Microsoft” written on the top of the adapter itself. These knock-offs (at least mine) say only “XBox 360” with no branding, copyright, etc.

Otherwise, they look like the real deal.My issues began when trying to install the adapter in an install of Windows 7 64-bit. I tried using the software bundled with the device, but had the same experience with the official software (which I ended up getting to work).

Using the driver on the CD that came with the adapter, I kept getting the error message:Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it. PC Wireless Gaming Receiver. The system cannot find the file specified.I then turned to the official drivers. After installing the official Microsoft software I then plugged the device into a USB port. My install of Windows 7 64-bit couldn’t install the device; ultimately, the adapter always ended up being listed as “Unknown Device”.Googling will bring up a few solutions for this issue, but I found only one works. These are the steps I took to install the drivers for the device:– Install the official software:– Start - Search for “Device Manager” - Open it– Find the “Unknown Device” - right click - properties– Driver - Update driver - Browse my computer - Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer– Double click “All devices” - Search for “Microsoft” in the left pane and select it - Search for “XBox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows Version: 2.1xxx”– Choose “Next” and complete the installThe “Unknown Device” should then disappear from the devices list. I was then able to sync my existing wireless XBox 360 controller (which came with my XBox 360 console) with the adapter by pressing the large “X” button on the controller to wake it (it should start blinking), then pressing the button on the adapter (its light should start blinking), then pressing the receiver sync button on the controller (a small button in between the left shoulder button and the central top port of the controller).

After a few seconds, the controller and adapter lights stopped blinking, leaving the top left light of the controller lit (the Player 1 state). Done.These links helped me:I also highly recommend XPadder:It allows you to fully customise the way the controller interacts with the OS and applications. Glad it worked 🙂Not sure about the issue with the settings being lost on reboot, though.

As long as you’re using the same USB port each time, there shouldn’t be an issue. Hopefully it’s a generic issue regarding new devices and not specific to this device. Good luck googling the answer. If you figure anything out, it’d be great if you could repost your solution here for others. These imitation devices seem to be a real pain for people, requiring different solutions depending on the platform.Cheers1. Hi Peter,All I can say is that that didn’t happen to me. Have you ever used a 360 headset with that computer?

My experience, as it seems for a lot of others, is that the device is detected as an “unknown device”. Once the drivers are installed, as per my instructions, you can point the system manager manually to assign the controller receiver device to what it should be. If you’ve tried this (and didn’t accidentally select the headset option from the list of possible devices) then it seems something funky is going on. Possibly the receiver, as you said.Good luck again! If you make any progress, reporting back with your findings would be great. Download and install3. Right click on Xbox36032Eng.exe, on the menu that comes up, go to 7-zip Extract (wherever you want to store the files)4.

Look for xusb21.inf wherever you extracted. That your driver.Then you can follow the steps in the blog post,Start - Search for “Device Manager” - Open it– Find the “Unknown Device” - right click - properties– Driver - Update driver - Browse my computer - Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer-xusb21.inf file-XBox 360 Wireless Receiver. This might mean that the adapter isn’t installed correctly. Even though the lights would flash when connected, I found that I couldn’t sync my controller when the drivers weren’t installed just so.

If you’ve followed the instructions in the post, and maybe the extra tips from others above, including the order to press the buttons to sync it, then I’m not sure what the problem is. These cheap knock-off adapters are a real pain. I’m even tempted to purchase a wired controller just to avoid these and similar issues. It seems as if Microsoft manufactures the wireless adapters both labelled “Microsoft” and “Xbox 360” depending on a different revision of the product. It should however, still have a label on the bottom with the Microsoft hologram. I own the original version labelled “Microsoft” but there are official pictures of the “Xbox 360” labelled version on Microsoft’s website, and in Windows 7 under “Devices and Printers”.

For example:The official Microsoft versions have a habit of fizzing out due to a faulty fuse, as it did with mine. I’ve heard that the knock-offs actually work better with this regard. For anyone experiencing this issue, here are repair instructions (I actually bridged the connections using aluminum foil tape).

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Doesn’t work for meI deleted all the old drivers I had installed, got the latest, tried to extract the file from the.exe etc. Nothing will make it work properly.The controller is found, but then loses connection on and off, so it’s not usable.Did you get the wireless receiver with the red disk? There seems to be a couple of versions. Mine does not have the XBOX 360 text on it.Piece of shit Microsoft wants me to buy two new wireless controllers specifically for Windows or get a new controller + new receiver everytime they break.

Unfortunately this solution didn’t work for me. I’m using Windows 7 64-Bit.I was able to install the driver, and the receiver now appears in Device Manager under the heading ‘Microsoft Common Controller for Windows Class’ as ‘Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows’. I’m also able to connect my wireless controller to the receiver, and the player 1 light on the controller is lit.However, my computer does not get any input from the controller and does not recognize that the controller is connected.

Anyone have any ideas for a fix? Hi Kris,Thank you so much for your guide! Another happy gamer here now: )I spent an hour or two last week trying to get my generic wireless receiver to work with my system (Win7 Pro 64). In the end, I could be bothered no more and just threw the receiver to one sideToday I considered just buying a wired 360 controller for PC, but at £20-25, and having two perfectly good wireless 360 controllers anyway, thought better of it, so set about trying to find a working guide online!Your’s was the first I found today, and having followed it exactly, I was up and running in a couple of minutes!Thanks again for taking the time to write your guide. You’ve saved me time and money: )All the best,Tom. Click the link he provided for the original driver, download it and open it.

It will extract on its own. You shouldn’t have any problems with it. MAKE SURE YOU ARE USING THE PROPER DRIVER FOR YOUR WINDOWS MACHINE! Ie Windows 64 bit. To find this info, go to start, computer, system properties.Once it is installed, follow his next step, go to start, right click computer, go to manage, and then find the “Unknown driver” and click “update driver software” and follow the rest of his tutorial and you shouldn’t have a problem.MAKE SURE you’re downloading the right driver for your machine. You deserve this on the top page of Microsoft’s bullshit support page.

I felt inclined to comment after this, my fourth time, having to redo this difficult to remember chore, because I often make drastic hardware changes to my main PC (I am a 3D artist by profession). I’ve finally learned my lesson and bookmarked this page because I KNOW it is going to happen again, and I KNOW there’s not a snowball’s chance in hell I’ll remember how to fix it myself.I hope I remember I have the fix bookmarked. I have a really bad memoryThanks! On a windows 8 64 bit system you need to do the following if have the cheap Chinese knockoff1. Right click on Computer2. Go to Properties3.

Click on Device Manager4. Right click on the Unidentified Device5. Go to Properties6. Go to the Drive tab7. Click on Update Driver8. Browse my computer for driver software9. Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer10.

Xbox 360 accessories (bottom)11. Install drivers for both the wireless receiver and the xbox controllerThat’s it! Be careful though for two things if you dont install both drivers the receiver will work but it will simply keep dropping your controlers.

Also you need to put the receiver on a usb 2 port in simply refuses to work on a usb 3! Right, so here’s what happened to me.Installed the thing following all the instructions: no problemTurned on my controller to connect: no problemWent to the game controllers panel to check: no controller detectedWhat? Controller clearly had made a connection so WTF is going on?Uninstalled driver, tried again. And again Same results.So after trying several different options and installs for about an hour my girlfriend walks in and says: Hey what’s up with your Xbox? It just turned on all of a sudden.Doh! I’d connected with my Xbox which is on the first floor at least 40 feet away from my PC. So do I have to unplug it if I want to use the receiver?

That’s pretty lame.And when turnng off my PC the receiver still gets power and stays connected to my controller. How do I turn off the controller?

I don’t want the batteries to drain after I turn off my PC.

Wireless Receiver for the Xbox 360 from China has arrived.Wireless Receiver for my Xbox 360 controller (Sometimes referred to as a wireless dongle) from China is one of those tools that has become more and more relevant in the gaming industry with console ports and couch co-ops. Unlike other types of electronics from China; Where it was inferior or simply was nothing more then a piece of plastic or an identifier chip saying what it was but it really did nothing at all. This adapter from china actually does work! But it needs the right drivers!

Next Video tutorial fallback mirrors:In case you have no-script enabled or for some reason cannot see the title video on this website. We have provided direct links for these videos. WebM – – This is the newest video standard, works great on Opera, Firefox, Chrome, and newer android phones, not good for Safari, IE, Apple. MP4 – – The most compatible codec but also rather large in file size. Make take a while to download. OGV – – The fallback codec for older PC’s and Linux USB stick OS’s. 1st generation web video streaming based on Ogg-Vorbis encoding.PDF file available:We noticed a lot of people where saving my tutorials onto the hard-drive.

Completely understandable. You may not trust this site being around in the next few months. Or perhaps you are going into a part of the world where internet isn’t fantastic. Or perhaps you are a seller of these receivers and are looking for a document that you can print up and attach to your product.

You can now for you to have, print, and read on your hard drive. Introduction:Now for those who don’t know what this little guy does; It allows you to hook up ANY wireless Xbox 360 Controller which operates on a wireless 2.4ghz range to your PC (Up to four devices just like the original Xbox 360) which is useful for playing a lot of Steam games which are coming. Most of those games all about Couch-Action multiplayer action. This wireless receiver is actually a really nice device to have considering Xbox One is released making the hardware of the 360 obsolete. And when hardware becomes obsolete it gets very cheap! We personally paid for 4 Xbox 360 controllers on eBay for around $55 with shipping included. Which isn’t bad at all!Read on if you would like to know more about this little $8 unit!

Original wireless receiver versus the Chinese version.This is a brief summary and differences between the two Xbox 360 receivers that you will find out on the internet. This is the official Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver. Note the Microsoft Logo on the casing and the tab on Cable.It should be noted it is next to impossible to find an OEM Microsoft 360 Wireless Receiver unless you are willing to fork out $50-60 for a controller and receiver pack. Used game stores such as GameStop will not keep these around and often will not even have a receiver. GameStop treats odd-ball hardware devices by only offering a few pennies to buy it off of someone. When official receivers show up on eBay.

They are typically going anywhere from $15-20 dollars because they are no longer in production thanks to the Xbox One. This can also be verified by checking the hardware ID in device manager. USB hardware ID for the official receiver is: USBVID045E&PID0719 This is the Chinese Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver with has no indication it came from Microsoft.Chinese receivers will come in cheaper packing (if any at all) and will not say the word “Microsoft” anywhere on the unit or package. This allows them to sell this units in this country without them getting pulled for various intellectual property related laws (And don’t think Microsoft won’t go after people for this! They still throw cease and desist letters to people giving out MS-DOS disks for gods sake!) You’ll also get a CD and that’s about it! No real instructions in the packaging itself.

This can be verified by checking the hardware ID in device manager. USB hardware ID for the third party china receiver is: USBVID045E&Pid0291 for windows 7 or USBVID05C6&PID9244 for windows 10. Where to purchase the China Wireless Xbox Receiver. – Ignore the Malaysian listings as it generally takes three times longer then China. The Malaysian sellers use dirty tactics to get the lowest price such as place a fish hooks at a penny to get top listings.

Generally 8 to 10 dollars USD with shipping from China. – More for North American buyers who don’t want to mess with Ebay. Prices are 9 to 13 USD plus possible shipping. – A little more expensive then Ebay in the 12 to 14 USD range. DX however may be more suitable for international buyers. – This auction site initially was not friendly to US buyers with Paypal. But they are about as good as Ebay.

I would only suggest this site for people that are looking for bulk purchases of the third party receiver.Note: Zero commission is made from these links. These are posted as a service to those reading this blog. Wireless receiver woes:Lets go through some of the issues encountered with the Chinese Wireless receiver. Toss this CD, it’s pointless!An issue with the Chinese receiver is that although it gives you a driver-CD.

That CD is absolutely useless unless you have windows XP 32-bit you minus well just throw the thing away! So if you have a Windows 7 or Windows 8 box. The Screen Below is the typical screen you will get! Now for those who do not beleive me or just want to see what china packed onto this CD.

I have uploaded an archive of my disc which can be downloaded. To access this file.

NOTE: This was only uploaded for archival purposes and will not be used in any way during this tutorial. Also, as of 10/5/2017 this archive has been re-compressed to.7z A.K.A for better compression. WinRAR can extract 7z files as well. No driver update, can’t point to the CD because the OS supported is Windows XP. Crap!This is because the China Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver is emitting a different hardware ID then the Microsoft one. USBVID05C6&PID9244 for Windows 10 to be exact.

Because of this Windows has no clue on what to do about this and Unlike a wired 360 controller or dance pad where it will simply pull its drivers off of Windows Update. It cannot do anything with our Chinese receiver.So how do we work around this problem?Simple, we force the Microsoft driver down its throat!!!

Acquire the software directly.You are first going to want to dealing with Xbox Controllers. We highly recommend installing this driver as it will load all of the default Microsoft interfaces for this tutorial. Microsoft’s driver will give you a battery utility so when you press your center button for Xbox control it will tell you how much battery is left in your controller. Direct download:This site prides itself on being the one-stop blog for everything you could need in a guide. However, as our usual disclaimer you should always run a virus checker over any executable you get from a third party site including my own.

Do not trust anything unless it comes from the source manufacturer. We will keep things clean as long as the site owner is alive but you may never know! Also note that to preserve file space and for simplicity sake all versions have been compressed into a single solid file.

You may use WinRAR or to extract the files in this archive: This archive which is approximately 8Mb in size contains both the 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the Xbox 360 receiver driver. Or click on the icon to the right of this paragraph to begin.

Links will continue to be provided here in the event the company discontinues support. Extract files:The first thing you will want to do is get a copy of WinRAR. Basically any package that is capable of extracting 7-zip files. In this tutorial we shall extract it to C:chinaxbox. You can extract it anywhere you like just keep a note as to where you extracted these files while reading this tutorial. Notes about the archive:In the following example above we will be extracting everything in the C:chinaxbox folder.

This archive contains the following files:. Xbox36032Eng – This is the 32 bit version of the Xbox Driver for those working with Windows 7 32-bit, Windows 8 32-bit, and finally windows 10 32-bit. Xbox36064Eng – This is the 64 bit version of the Xbox Driver for those working with Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8 64-bit, and finally windows 10 64-bit. Xbox360ModXP – This version is made specifically for windows XP 32/64 bit and Windows 7 32/64.Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver driver installation for Windows 10.For those with the latest windows 10 operating system please continue reading.

Software installation.If you downloaded your driver from then you may simply double-click on the EXE file that you downloaded from them. If you used our archive. Navigate to either the C:chinaxboxXbox36032Eng or C:chinaxboxXbox36064Eng folder depending on what OS you have installed and double-click the setup.exe file inside.The very first thing we will be doing is (with administrative rights of course) launch that installation file you have downloaded to begin installing the drivers into windows 10. Check the box to “I accept this agreement” and click the Next button to continue.You may or may not see this window depending if there was another application on your computer that requires this dependency. In windows 10 the.NET Framework 3.5 can be automatically downloaded. If for some reason it does not automatically download for you you may to go to Microsoft’s website for.NET Framework 3.5.

If you are working offsite for any reason you may wish to download the Offsite version of.NET Frame 3.5. Otherwise you can let Windows 10 take care of it for you by simply selecting “Download and install this feature” and give it permission to do so. The only reason why this program requires.NET Framework 3.5 as a dependency is due to the battery and player status tool that comes with this program which you shall see later in this blog.You may now click the Finish button to complete the installation. Plugging in the hardware.Upon plugging in your USB cabling windows 10 will attempt to find the driver for these Chinese controllers. It of course will not find anything and label the device as “Unknown Device.” If this were a true Microsoft OEM receiver it would have found your driver and installed it ending the tutorial for you.

However, due to differences in product ID we have to install this driver manually.To begin you are going to want to go to your device manager. On windows 7 you an click your Start Button and then right-click your “File Explorer” and click on Manage to open the Computer Management screen.

Finally, click on “Device Manager”.From here provided that you have already hooked up your Xbox 360 USB Receiver. We see that we have other devices that the system cannot identify. Right-click the Unknown Device and then click on Update Driver Software of this particular devic e.Since this driver cannot be found by the CD or Windows Update. Searching automatically is a waste of time. Click on Browse my computer for driver software.Since we are going to inject the driver manually select “Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer” and then click Next.Note: If you did not install the as stated at the beginning of this tutorial this catagory may not exist. In my case since I had some Xbox wired controllers Windows Update did the job for me. Select “Xbox 360 Peripherals ” and then click Next.This is the section which deals with only Xbox 360 Controllers.

All of these drivers are digitally signed indicating that they come right from Microsoft which is good. Select “Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows Version: 2.1.0.1349” and click the Next button to continue.Note: Windows 10 by default will have the newer driver v10.0.10240. The software we just installed inserts 2.1.0.1349 into the list. The reason why choosing the old version of the driver will become very apparent when we go and test the Xbox 360 controller later on in this tutorial.

I shall explain why at the end.This is the part where windows does not believe that you know what you are doing. Silly windows. Click Yes to continue and it will begin installing the driver.It will come up stating that the driver has been successful in installation.

You may now Close this window.To verify the driver is installed. Go back into your Device Manager section of Computer Management and you should see a catagory dealing with Xbox 360 Controllers.

A Xbox 360 Peripherals at the button and inside of this section Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows.Driver installation on Windows 10 is Complete Sync’ing the Xbox China receiver to the Xbox 360 controller.The steps here will seem really simple for people which have owned an Xbox 360. When looking at a lot of forums this is also the most overlooked step. Resulting in people thinking that they got a bad receiver when in all reality it is perfectly fine!. Turn on your Xbox 360 Wireless Controller. It should have all four corners of the controller flashing indicating that it’s on but it cannot find a device to connect to. Press the button on the wireless receiver and it will begin flashing.

While the wireless receiver is flashing, press the “Sync” button on the front of your Xbox 360 Controller as shown in the picture above. You know it will begin to Pair the device if you see the Green LEDs on the start button of your controller move in a Clock-Wise Fashion. If you have a solid LED light in the upper left-hand corner indicating player 1. Your Xbox 360 controller is now paired up to your wireless receiver. If the LED’s spin in a clockwise circle but then returns to all lights flashing that means that it cannot find your Wireless receiver to pair up to.Special notes about android devices: If you are hooking this up to an Android box.

The controller will still flash but at a slower speed. This is because the Android OS has no official drivers for the Xbox 360 Wireless controllers as for the date of this publish your compatibility will vary from game to game under Android Installing the driver for the Xbox 360 controller.Windows will begin installing drivers the moment the controller is properly powered on and paired up. Provided that your Xbox Controller is an OEM version this process should proceed automatically and without issue. Testing the Xbox 360 controller.If you don’t want to go into control panel and navigate all of the different windows you can simply type the command control joy.cplHowever, for the sake of this blog we will do it the long way in Windows 10 by first clicking on settings. In windows 10 we will first select the Devices tab.

Then we select Connected devices and finally select the devices and printers link to open up something that we are more familiar with in the. Lets see if windows can actually see and test our new joystick that we installed. Click the start menu and click “Devices and Printers”.Right-Click on the Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows and click on “ Game Controller settings”.As you see, inside of the wireless receiver is where all of the wireless Xbox 360 Controllers will reside. Click on whatever controller you would like to see and click the “Properties” button.From here you may now start pressing buttons and moving your joystick around. You also get to see if perhaps you had any bad buttons, poor analog hats which are badly calibrated or are in need of replacement hats for your controller.

Also you get to visually see how terrible the D-Pad is on the X-Box controller.:) More information about differing driver versions within Windows 10.Wait a minute S, you’re telling users to install an older driver designed for windows 7 when windows 10 has it built right in. Why even install the files you provided for Windows 10?Lets assume that you did install the “latest and greatest” driver that came built right into Microsoft. Will it work? Yes, but you will be missing two things.The first thing that you’ll notice upon using the new wireless receiver driver is all of your Xbox 360 controllers are listed as generic HID-compliant game controllers. They are not listed as true Microsoft Xbox 360 controllers anymore.

In about 80 to 90 percent of the games on the market this will not affect a thing! There are however some games that are built around the Xbox 360 controller and will map all of the keys for you if it so happens to find a true controller that came from Microsoft. This bug in the new driver is an annoyance and not a deal-breaker.

Battery gauge feature.The second bug deals with functionality of the center xbox button. Using the old driver when you download and install the software. Let it install Net 3.5. Normally it places a file known as XboxStat.exe as a startup program for Windows which will listen through the Chinese wireless receiver for any command from that button to give the user information such as what controller is connected, battery life, and more. This is a nice feature but once again it’s not a deal-breaker. The lights will flash on your controller when the battery is getting low.

If you don’t care about this and you want to save about 3mb of memory by not installing the older driver. Then the new driver should suit you just fine. Summary of driver confusion:As for exactly why Microsoft neglected to put these tools into their OS could end up with a lot of different answers. That they wanted to keep the drivers simple? That perhaps they didn’t bother to talk to the hardware development side of Microsoft prior to releasing their OS?

Either way it goes everyone thinks that a bigger version driver means better but you have to take into consideration that this is Microsoft the same company that skipped a version number in their OS because they didn’t like the way it sounded.Version numbers no longer have the integrity they used to. Notes for critical errors.On 02/01/16 – We had one of the Chinese wireless receivers die on us after a years worth of service bouncing back and forth between devices.

This can even happen to a Microsoft OEM Receiver as the only thing that is really inside your dongle is a microchip and that’s it. The Chinese versions don’t even have a fuse along the 5 volt power lines and in my case the regulator that reduces voltage from 5.0vdc to 3.3vdc for the chip to use was totally fried out.Upon going into device manager we found something similar to this show up.When you try installing the drivers you may receive this description for your Chinese wireless receiver. This is not a good sign. What your system is telling you is that it cannot get a response from the micro-controller inside. You can try a different computer/USB port but if it keeps saying the same thing then it’s a sign serious hardware failure of the receiver. Read onward to confirm this error.

Check Hardware ID for troubleshooting.Note: Always check the device ID of your hardware by right-clicking on the unknown device and clicking on properties. You can then click on the details tab and then click the drop-down-box for hardware ID to view it. Microsoft products begin with USB/VID045E.

Please note that VID045E is Microsoft and this value may differ when looking it up.As mentioned earlier in this blog when we discussed the two different receivers out there on the market:. USB hardware ID for the official receiver is: USBVID045E&PID0719. USB harrdware ID for the Chinese receiver is: USBVID045E&Pid0291 or USBVID05C6&PID9244 depending on your Windows OS build.A dead give away that the receiver died is the Hardware ID in device manager underneath the properties of the USB device and it will display USBVID0000&PID0000 or USBVID???? Depending on operating system. This means your computer can’t even establish communication to the ID chip.

Without an ID chip then the drivers will not install and you should begin the process of returning your defective dongle back to the vendor for a refund/exchange. Although we hope that your adapter does not come to this death.

We thought it would be important to document and troubleshoot this because the third party china receiver has no 250mA breaker fuse and thus are more prone to possible DOA from USB power spike upon plugin. Final thoughts.Besides the driver headaches explained above. It behaves just like the Microsoft OEM version. The receiver works all the way across our house which is identical to my Xbox 360 console wireless length. So no real complaints about connectivity or lag issues.

For $8(USD) it’s not a bad deal.The great thing with having the wireless receiver is they give you a few feet of cable so you can place the wireless receiver anywhere giving you a possible better reception around the house then keeping it inside of the Xbox 360 console. We hope you find this article useful and hopefully it will keep a few Xbox 360 controllers in circulation.

If you have any problems you may leave it in the comments below. Please include OS and hardware ID of the controller you are using.Server protect you.END OF LINE. The “Device Descriptor Request failed” is NOT because of the receiver hardware failed. I had this for the longest time and assumed the same thing.It is because the modded drivers do not contain the ID for the fake driver!

In my case, the fake (!) ID is Vid045E&Pid0291, the real ID is Vid045E&Pid0719(Please check in your article as you say the official ID is 0291 which is not the case. In all the official drivers, there is no mentioning of 0291, but instead 0719)And since the fake ID is not in the.INF section in the drivers, the receiver is not recognized by the OS anymore and the drivers are not loaded.(It happens that you can install the driver, but only if it shows as “Unknown Device” in device manager. If it shows with a more serious error you cannot install drivers, the device seem dead. Trust me, I sat on this a long time and also thought the hardware is broken, but it’s the driver!) Also, it happened many times I was able to install drivers, but only temporary.What to do? The solution is easy:In the.INF there are three lines where the driver loads the official one:%XUSB21.DeviceName%=CCInstall, USBVid045E&Pid0791Just add another line with the fake ID: (to this 4 times in the INF)%XUSB21.DeviceName%=CCInstall, USBVid045E&Pid0791.

This is really the first time we are hearing of this. This also defies scenarios to which have been experienced here as we did have a few of them go bad over use. Device descriptor request failure is the fact that your computer simply cannot acquire a hardware or vendor ID off of the chips controller.

The very next paragraph is where we tell users how to troubleshoot this would show a VID????&PID???? If the USB device descriptor has truly failed. There would be nothing for an INF file to pick anything up. If you did manage to pull a vendor and product ID then consider yourself incredibly lucky.We don’t like doing INF mods because as you’ve pointed out you gotta disable driver signature enforcement. In fact there is a that documents what you’ve just said and it works great for windows XP as that OS has no signature enforcement. You may think it’s easy but there’s some PCs on the market which really lock it down hard between the users firewall/antivirus programs, the BIOS via Secure Boot, etc.

This is why instead we have the user force the driver. It’s what is required for installing the and if you go to that article you can see the deluge of users having issues with disabling that driver signature.There’s also no doubt that China is probably using other fake product IDs. This does not effect the documentation provided if they did. Keep in mind the only two product ID’s seen so far are the ones documented in this blog which are also the ones that you specified.Either way it goes.

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We’re glad that you found a solution for your issue and thank you for spending the time with sharing it with us. Also thanks for checking out this blog.– S.