I recently bought an "". It came with a little USB dongle for my computer to pick up the wireless signal and some driver software. It works like a charm.  I plan to have some multiplayer games on my computer, so I want to hook up three more wireless controllers. Here's my question: should I buy more "Wireless Controllers for Windows", which are a little more expensive than just regular Xbox 360 Wireless Controllers. or now that I have the driver software and the USB dongle, can I just buy regular ?  Is there any actual difference in the controller hardware itself?
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Recently, I bought an Xbox 360 wireless controller for PC, which comes with the USB receiver...  I want to play ''Rayman Origins'' in co-op with my girlfriend, and I want to know if it is a good idea to buy a normal Xbox 360 wireless controller (for Xbox) and if it would work as a second player using the same USB receiver?  Or do I need to buy another Xbox 360 wireless controller for PC, and use the same receiver? Or use 2 receivers?
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I've been working on my new PC build with the  motherboard. This board comes with a wifi/bluetooth card that goes into a PCIe x1 slot... but the card also wants to be connected to the motherboard through an internal USB cable:  to a motherboard USB2 header. This would be fine and dandy but this motherboard only has two USB2 headers and they're already occupied by my case front panel USB pin blocks. However, there are at least two USB3.0 headers free on the motherboard; can I just connect this internal cable to a USB3 header?  Pictured: USB3.0 header (middle, light blue), USB2 header (right, blue) (not my motherboard) Looking at pinouts and discussions online, it seems like it could work if I connect the USB2 pin block to the first 9 pins of the USB3.0 header, though I'm afraid of frying the wireless card, motherboard, or both. Some sites even say that the USB3.0 motherboard header isn't standard, and can vary in pinout depending on manufacturer! Can anyone shed some light on this? P.S. If I can't do this, then is there a way to 'split' my existing USB2 motherboad headers?
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I've got a new laptop with a wireless card which runs Windows 7.  At work, I put the laptop in a docking station that gives the laptop a hardwired internet connection and functions pretty much like desktop PC.  But there isn't any WiFi signal in my building that I can use, so various portable devices that depend on WiFi  for an internet connection (iPod Touch and Kindle) are hobbled.  I'd like to provide them internet connections without spending more money, if possible.  So what I'd like to do is install some sort of virtual WiFi router on my PC.  Is that possible?    N. B. There is a related (but not identical ) that has an  that I think will work for me.  It won't hurt my feelings if this question is closed with a link to the other question, but I think they require different answers.
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I have a Windows Vista computer.  How can I check if all my hardware is supported by Windows 10?  I don't want to purchase it and then find out there are no drivers for the chipset or whatever.
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I tried to install the driver for my new wifi usb stick with MT7610U Chipset from 7Links but had no luck. I tried to install it via github and from the original sources but always had some compiling errors. I also tried it with wpa supplicant and the wext driver but could not get it running. lsusb tells Bus 003 Device 006: ID 0e8d:7610 MediaTek Inc. and iwconfig only shows my old wifi stick and two other ethernet cards.   I'm trying to install the driver on ubuntu 17.10.  Is there any way to get it running and can someone tell me how?  Thanks in advance
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Am I able to use a controller to play the PC version of Minecraft? If so, can I just plug it in and play or do I have to do something else before being able use one?
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I've just installed Windows 7 on my PC.  I went online to look for drivers. For , Foxconn offers LAN drivers, on-board audio drivers, and chipset drivers. And for , Nvidia offers a graphics card driver, obviously.  But then I stopped and wondered... what benefit would I gain from installing them?   The LAN cable is plugged in and I'm online; no problems there.  The on-board audio is working fine.  A quick Google tells me that a chipset is responsible for moving data around my motherboard – which seems to be happening OK!  And my graphics look perfect.    So why should I install the drivers? What would they give me, other than badly designed "management" interfaces, and pointless "notifications" whenever I plug in an audio jack?  If there are different considerations for each of the components – chipset, audio, LAN, and graphics (and any others you think I should be aware of) – please break it down in your answer.     Update: I've had a couple of answers already, saying that I'll get better stability, bugfixes, etc.   Can I slightly expand my question... Can I get all these same benefits if I install the drivers via Windows Update? And if I do this, would I avoid having to install the vendor-specific UIs, which I find so annoying?
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I got the  in order to interface with an I2C peripheral through a USB port on my Windows 7 computer.  The VCP drivers seem to install correctly, and a COM port is assigned to the module, and can be opened by a terminal emulator. However, I cannot seem to get any signal in or out of the module. That is, I see no activity when I send data through the port, or receive any data when I connect an I2C device to it (this was debugged using a scope). I have also verified that the RESET isn't on.  I found very little helpful information out there on how to get this module to work, so if anyone has experience with it, or with similar FTDI modules, my question is: what are the steps that I need to take in order to get the module to communicate?
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I'm picking up a used Xbox 360. It isn't expensive and the seller has agreed to let me try it out first. To test it out, here's some things I'm trying to get answered:   Is it banned from Xbox Live? Is the DVD drive in good condition?   How do I check whether this particular Xbox has been banned?  Are there any other things that I should check?
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I bought the wireless adapter to use with a computer without internet access but I can't figure out how to install it with just a USB with the driver on it. I've read a few articles on how to install the driver but they all require me to have internet access and I don't have internet. I'm completely new to Ubuntu. If you can help that would be great. Thanks!  Ps: I have the latest version of Ubuntu as of 7-5-16.
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I would like to know whether I can buy a Wireless WLAN Transmitter for my desktop computer in order to not use a internet cable to connect to the internet but rather via my router's wireless WLAN option, or not.   I was thinking about buying the product below:   The idea is to just put this stick in and connect it with my computer and just make it connect to the internet with only this device and not the cable.  I personally think that it actually might not work due to the fact that there is no WLAN card or whatever those devices are called, built-in in my computer but maybe it is possible. That is why I thought I'd just ask the pros.   Thanks in advance :)
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Is there a way to get the in-line microphone and remote controller on headphones to work on Windows?  I've got  designed to work with iPhone, but also other smartphones. It has in-line microphone and also push-to-talk button with ability to accept/decline calls and pause/play/next/previous song. Since I use it on my laptop a lot I was wondering if it can be used as a microphone (e.g. for Skype calls) and as a media controller (common practice for keyboards).  I assume some kind of driver would probably be required, at least for the media control part. Yet I haven't found anything useful so far and despite this question being asked before in several situations there was no conclusive answer.
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I have a Lenovo G580 laptop. In the past, using Windows 8, I could use Bluetooth to connect to other devices.  Installing Windows&nbsp;10, Bluetooth simply disappeared. I can't find anything related to Bluetooth in the Device Manager, also in Settings → Devices.  There is no Windows&nbsp;10 Bluetooth driver for my laptop.  What can I do?
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I reinstalled windows on a new machine and the drivers are not present for the product network card.   When in device manager all I get is the question mark and I am unable to figure out the actual name of the vendor or model of the card. This is making my search to find the correct driver hard.   Anyone know how I to find out more about the hardware that does not have drivers?
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Right, so we have 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit microcontrollers in this world at the moment. All of them are often used. How different is it to program 8-bit and 16-bit micrcontrollers? I mean, does it require different technique or skill? Lets take microchip for example. What new things does a person need to learn if they want to transition from 8-bit microcontrollers to 32-bit microcontrollers?
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Can you advise me on what drivers to install for the TP-LINK TL-WN725N USB wireless adapter on UBUNTU 12.04.  TP-LINK only provide Windows drivers.
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I need to replace my current motherboard with a new one, no other parts are changed.   Must I format my harddrive and reinstall windows, or can I use the old installation and let windows install the right drivers?  I realize, there might be a performance hit, but I'll probably need the new one just for a week and would like to replace it with the old motherboard again.