With my Xbox I got also two gamepads. The one worked fine for a couple of minutes but after that its completely dead. What can I do, from where do I start? The gamepad that has the issue is the standard original pad.
They usually break at the part where the game goes into the pad. You can open them up, cut away a section of the cable and resolder it inside.
Ok i have opened it up and it's really dirty. Some pictures in case that might help If you can, the two pin from the left have a joined solder "thingy" and the last one has a tiny drop of solder. ps: Sorry crap camera on my mobile.
They are uploaded to imgur, i didn't uploaded on the forums. Do i have to enable a setting, i can see them fine from my account or logged out. Although it says that is an official product on the label at the back of the pad, the quality of the pcb says that it is a cheap clone. The back of the pcb is brown :S ---edit--- Well, I heated a little the solder blob between the first two pins seperating them and added some solder to the last one, now my cheap chinese pad is working fine. Thank you!
Man, I'm having no luck with Xbox. Got two already, bought them separately. The first one without controllers but CIB and a couple of games. The second one with four games and a controller S. Only at home did I noticed I was missing the breakaway cable (I've totally skipped Xbox, never even played a single second of it and know very little about this system) and after a bit of googling I got to confirm that. Today I was at the vendor's stall and talked a bit with him. He offered me the breakaway cable but when I got home I couldn't get any reaction from the controller. I checked if it was tightened both at the ports on the console (tested the four of them btw. in both consoles) and in the breakaway joints. It was but still... I'm about to order a new breakaway from ebay (I don't know what the hell is going on but both controllers and breakaway cables cost almost as much as I payed for the systems. Be it original or 3rd party, ebay or locally...!) but now I'm wondering if I got really unlucky with those systems (ie, are they both faulty? they seem to boot fine, no red lights, discs spins ok, they're a loud animal :lol: but I can't skip the clock/date setting screen to further check) or if it's the controller that's dead (I wonder if so, if it is a common problem) or it's just the breakaway cable. I can't borrow any other controller or cable atm... :s I'm onto checking it's internals now. I've only checked the contacts at the end of the cables and they seem fine. edit: I could have bought another complete system, with two duke controllers + breakaway cables + some games. probably would get 10€ (seller was asking 20€). He didn't let the controllers go alone, even one it was. But that'd be my 3rd xbox and I haven't even tested the ones I have. Maybe next week I'll take my chances if he still has them...
^^ i can't advise beyond basic controller maintenance. (and not an electronic expert, just common sense) ... get an 'xbox-to-usb' pad converter, it's just a cable with NO circuitry! (socket gender-bender) works with xp (all sp's) and likely the newer m$ bloated bullsh*t! (perhaps mac osx .x.x?) .. if that cable is in use, it's good for a basic pad feedback test hatch, has a built-in vibration setting allowing a weak or moderate motor turn! .... i believe they maybe something for the xbox itself, as an app (.xbe) but my searches are balls! (or query is f*cked?) ... get a converter cable for a computer and use the os 'controller' calibration field to test the pad works! (and 'ar xplorer360' for xp/7 is ideal for testing the pad mc sockets, with the 8m official memory cards of course. don't have any 3rd party mc's this side!) :friendly_wink:
