Help Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Receiver For Windows, help help

Thanks a bunch eding1! Taking off the F1 fuse and creating a bridge in its place brought my receiver back to life!

You are the MAN! You saved me 20+ bucks! Thanks again buddy.

I have opened the receiver and bridged the fuse eding1 suggested but it was never detected on Windows.

I have found out that on the circuit board there is a component missing at CN1. I've noticed this when I refer to the picture uploaded by eding1:
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/231/receivereb4.jpg
I don't know what's the component is but it is the white one. On my circuit board it is like nothing have been soldered there at CN1.

Is there anyone that got the same problem?
Is it some kind of manufacturing defect from the factory?
Can I just RMA the receiver even after I have opened it?
BTW the receiver still under warranty period.

Wow, thanks eding1!!! My receiver also worked for about 3 weeks and then went kaput. I checked out the voltage with a multimeter after opening up the receiver and found it to be around 4.96v (entering the device). So I knew therefore this wasn't the problem. All this talk all over the place about needing a powered usb hub wasn't a solution for me. I bridged the fuse eding1 suggested, just as a test with a piece of wire, and bam, hardware found!. Ten minutes later the joint was soldered and I'm pleased as punch. The receiver has been sitting in my junk box for months now and I was about to buy a new one with an extended warranty. Kudos to you sir :)

I followed the diagrams from eding, and used a probably inappropriate soldering iron and some solder cable and soldered the F1 fuse as instructed...it bloody well worked. Awesome.

The cover was a bit tricky to get off, I ended up boring with a point screwdriver (it's like a small stabbing pick) in a downward direction on the join just to the left and upwards from the Microsoft logo. After damaging the caseing in this area somewhat wiggling up and down I managed to pry the cover upwards enough to slip in a flat screw driver an then lever all the way around. The glue points seem to 'crack' if you apply the pressure towards to corners which lets you get the rest of the cover up without too much more 'warping' of the join edge.

Then you have to unscrew the circuit board and turn over to see the F1 Fuse, it's actually pretty tiny and you have to solder across the fuse which is already between the points.

After a few attempts I managed to get the solder off the tip of the soldering iron and across the two points - it peaked in the middle a bit when i took the iron away, but this didn't seem to matter as when I connected it, it worked!

I noticed that my 3-4 attempts to swipe the solder off the iron onto the points cause a bit of 'heat damage' to the surrounding board, thankfully my inexperience didn't cause enough collateral damage.

I confirm this solution worked for me.

I also advise that my receiver died after plugging in with logitech wireless receivers at the same time...it just died on next reboot.

I have the same problem, have had it happen twice. The first time I bought a new headset, everything worked fine. This time I am not sure what I am going to do. Microsoft support is little to no help.

same problem here, pulling my hair out distroying my computer at the same time........

I have the same issue. this worked a few weeks ago. I wanted to play again .. it doesnt anymore. Any chance that any of the recent automatic updates did this ?

Have the same problem only mine only worked for like 3 hours then it decided to shut down without me even unplugging it, i just went to the bathroom and when i came back the light was out never to return it seems...tried uninstalling, reinstalling and everything in between yet no dice...

Same here: it's one year and two months I have it, the other day I unplugged and... it I won't work again!

yep microsoft is ****

Was working fine for a month or two until yesterday when I unplugged it, plugged back in and the light never turned on.

Same problem.. 2 days and the receiver doesn't work anymore...

I have viste32 sp1 but I've also tried with XP SP3

It happened to me i was happily playing my games then i come back and plug it in and it doesnt work.

This shitty reciever worked for like 2 - 3 weeks i think (maybe less) and it just DIED. i mean the green light on top a this reciever just dont work!
i tried serveral pc!

after 2 days of good fun it went dead :( no solution yeat and there is no support from microsoft :(

the same problem

I have two receivers... Two days old. both are dead... I have tried them on 3 PCs.

bought it, green light doesn't even show up lit to begin with. Tried several computers and several USB ports tried on Vista 32bit and XP 32bit

My receiver lasted five days. I was sick for a week so didn't use it. Now, when I plug the receiver into my computer (via USB), my PC doesn't recognize it. I also tried plugging it into my laptop and a PC at work....they don't recognize the USB connection. As I've read on many forums tonight, this is a common problem -- the receiver is dead.

OS's: vista, xp and 2000