Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver

Finally got the Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver for Windows. I was surprised to see it in HMV last week as it seemed to have just been released officially in the US.

Synced up the Wireless Controller fine. I did notice that you need to remove the battery to turn off the controller. There doesn't seem to be a shutdown function by holding the Guide button down.

The Wireless Headset had a few gripes. At first Windows Live Messenger wouldn't see it in the Audio/Video Setup Wizard. I tried rebooting but still nothing. Then I switched from offline to online mode in Messenger & it all showed up. From there on it was just like a normal microphone, still have to test it out though in a chat session.

Apparently the Wireless Racing Wheel does not support force feedback in Windows which is a bit of a shame (don't have that (yet)).

Vista

Got Vista yesterday but only managed to install it late last night.

Still in under 45 minutes I had it up & running. Things were speeded up by the fact I have all my personal files synchronised to an external hard drive everyday.

Vista also detected all my core hardware. I was surprised it picked up the sound & ethernet card but it did.

Only a few bits to finalise & I'll be back on track.

Yay!

Big thanks to ferrousoxide & nephster13 for the gifts, they fantastic.

Thank you so much.

Musicat

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Broken Again

Turns out the Xbox 360 is broken again.

What's really annoying is I just bought the VGA AV cable to connect it to my Dell flat panel monitor so I can have HD. Tasha also bought me a memory card to back up save games.

It's not so bad, I'll just get it replaced & all will be right again.

Finglas PC

I bodged together a bunch of computer parts left over from my main PC upgrade & now we have a PC in Finglas too.

The only downside is the monitor which is teeny tiny. Oh well, it was free.

Yay!

Saddness

I'm afraid the Xbox 360 is knackered. It crashes on startup sometimes or sometimes midway through on the dashboard & I even get the red lights of death every once in a while.

I've disconnected all accessories & it still does it. I will have to return it to Smyths.

Just back from Finglas, went to play Xbox 360 & it started crashing. Even got the red lights of death.

Managed to get it started up & formatted the HD (as it seemed to stay on without it connected) & so far so good.

Hope it's ok.

Click here for photos from our trip to Whitby including the Whitby Dracula Society ball.