Question XBox 360 replacement adapter

[gordonfreemanjr]

So I have an original XBox 360 gamepad with the receiver, which won’t work anymore. I bought a replacement 360 pad with a replacement receiver, which pairs fine with the replacement pad, but won’t connect with the original. Is this expected? Can I do anything besides buying more stuff?

 

[hang-the-9]

Why not use the replacement pad? Unless the receiver has a sync option to connect to another game pad it will only work with the one it came with.