[Greg McKaskle]

A timeout string means that the Kinect Server SW isn't running, and you may want to click the restart button near the LED.

If the string says No Kinect, that means the server is running, but that the server cannot open a connection to a Kinect device.

Especially if you are on a slow computer, you may want to disconnect, reboot, connect, and listen to the sounds and watch that the "drivers being installed" stuff comes up in the bottom right. You could also check the Device Manager and verify that the drivers successfully loaded.

Some MS guidelines are to plug the Kinect into its own USB controller, and especially don't plug it into a hub with lots of other devices.

Greg McKaskle