xbox 360 controller won't work

so i recently bought halo 2 for vista, and the controller i had would not play properly on the game, so i went to gamestop and bought an xbox 360 controller. when i connect the controller to my pc, nothing happens. it also does not respond when i bring up halo 2. what can i do to fix this?

any help is appreciated.

i installed the supposed 'drivers' for the controller as well. but my computer will still not recognize the controller

mine is wired. for a few months it worked great, then it would randomly stop responding (unplug and plug back in and it would work again), now windows doesn't recognize it at all - even if i have no other usb devices plugged in. gfmetal

Sounds like driver issues. Have you tried removing the 360 Controller Driver in the device manager and then plugging it back in?

Sounds like driver issues to me, ive never had any problems like that before.

Did you try stepping on it?

Cause if you did theres your problem.

try running updates run it on custom look to the left at hardware oppitional the controler will be there mine diddnt install automaticly ither and the drivers i downloaded where wrong . this is how i finaly got the right drivers

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Heres a summary of how to get your controller to work for PC:

1.Download the required plug ins either from the microsoft* site or there should have been a CD that came with the controller that has the plug ins on it. Now connect the 360 controller.

2.When you first plug in your controller nothing will happen except your controller should light up to indicate that you are player 1, if this doesn't happen press the Guide button (the one with the 360 logo) still if nothing happens then re-download the required software, if nothing is still happening then the 360 controller is probably faulty.

3. Now you have all the drivers and the 360 controller works (well sort of, buttons still don't do anything) download the program **Joy2Key this program basically makes the computer think your 360 controller is part of the keeyboard and then you can assign any button to any key on the keyboard e.g. assigning RT to left mouse click will make it so that when you press RT in FPS games you will shoot.

4. You need to configure the keyboards keys to seom of the 360s buttons.***Use this image to help you find your way***

****THIS TUTORIAL outlines steps 3-4 better than I can.

Maybe I haven't solved the problem but if you did follow these steps it should work perfectly fine.

*=http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906347

**=http://www.electracode.com/4/joy2key/JoyToKey%20English%20Version.htm

***=http://media.photobucket.com/image/Joy%20to%20key%20buttons%20controller/traycerb/Xbox360WirelessControllerImageX3.jpg

****=http://www.rmxpunlimited.net/forums/index.php?/wired-xbox-controller-windows-t3015.html

Gamespot found a way to screw up my HTML code. so I couldn't link properly D:

so i got an xbox 360 wired controller and was trying to set up project 64 on my pc. when i went to configure the controller buttons some of the directions didn't work and some of the buttons didn't either, so i got a new controller and the same thing happened. i am lost on what to do.pinkinkvb

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