skidude

I bought a brand new xbox360 wireless gamepad for my PC today. I followed the instructions exactly as they are printed in the book, yet the gamepad still doesnt work. The wireless receiver thing says it's connected, but all four of the quadrants just blink whenever the controller is on. I've updated the drivers for it and searched google for the past hour but I haven't come up with anything. Please help me before I seriously go crazy and hurl this piece of garbage out the window.

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Desktop / Laptop

CPU- AMD Athlon X2 6000+ 3.0 GHz / Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.8 GHz
Video- ATI X1900XTX / 2x 8800M GTX SLI
Memory- 2 GB A-Data DDR2800 / 4GB DDR2800
Hard Drives- 3x 160GB 7200RPM / 2x 320GB 5400RPM (RAID 0)
Mobo- Gigabyte GA-M61P-S3 Socket AM2 Motherboard / Sager NP9262

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