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    Racing wheel gives me really hard times. (Works but not)

    Discussion in 'Accessories' started by Noobinact, Apr 10, 2014.

  1. Noobinact

    Noobinact Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello

    Yesterday I bought Ferrari 458 Italia racing wheel from local store. And I was little bit exicting to drive some rally and formula.
    I plugged it into xbox 360 and it worked perfectly, so I decide to plug it into my laptop. Well there we are where the problem started hit my face.

    Heres what happened

    As normally I looked cable head and it was usb so (usb go on usb) okay everything seems working, windows started to looking for driver
    like usually with xbox 360 stuff. After couple minutes I noticed it couldnt find driver. I started to think is this only for xbox 360 buuut
    I looked box side and its clearly says compatible with windows 7. Okay then I headed to thrumasters website and installed every possible drivers what there I could get, witout success.

    I even installed xbox controller diver multiple times but nothing. I spent like 2 hours repeating everything what I had done but nothing.

    Atleast it shows at Devices and Printers as "Unspevifield" "Ferrari 458 Racing wheel".

    Okay now the story goes even more interesting.

    This morning I woke up and tried one more time nothing... I was ready to throw it out of my house but I gave it another change. I went to my brother room and plugged it into his computer and after while it started to look for
    driver like usually and PAAAM! it found it (slowly downloading) thought (in my opinion). And it installed the driver and it was ready to go.
    So I went back to my laptop and PAM! nothing happens... -.-


    Overall problem is:

    Ferrari 458 Italia racing wheel.
    -> Windows cant found driver
    -> doesnt work
    --> Worked on another computer (windows found the driver)
    -----> Im pissed of



    If someone could help me out. I will be really thankful for that person.


    Ferrari 458 Italia racing wheel
    Windows 7 home premium x64
    ASUS N56DP
     
    Noobinact, Apr 10, 2014
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    Starlight5 Yes, I'm a cat. What else is there to say, really?

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    Remove installed drivers and allow Windows Update to search & install drivers automatically.
     
    Starlight5, Apr 10, 2014
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    Noobinact Notebook Enthusiast

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    I tried it but it still couldnt found drivers. Then I went to device manager and installed xbox 360 ontroller driver on my wheel and I managed it to work.
     
    Noobinact, Apr 10, 2014
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