MCE 2005 Xbox 360 Extender PC Setup Cannot find Xbox 360

I am very very similar problems to those above. I have 2005 Media Center PC
brand new from DELL. I am using the Linksys WRT55AG with a wired connection
for the PC, router, and Xbox 360.

When I run setup from www.xbox.com/pcsetup it gets all the way to where it
says verifying setup key and the stop and says "setup cannot find Xbox 360"

I have all the firewall ports that are required opened in the Windows
Firewall and the Xbox 360 even shows up in my Windows Media Connect. The
Xbox will not connect to my PC via Windows Media Connect or Media Center.

The only other Firewall/Anti-Virus program on the PC is TrencoPC-cillin
which has been disabled/not uninstalled when I run the 360 setup.

Before with my previous DELL PC I was only using Windows Media Connect
because it was only a XP based maching and everything was working perfect.

Please Help!

 

1. do you have the latest firmware for your router? if not, please
download the latest firmware and update it.
2. please disable the windows firewall as a diagnostic and uninstall
PC-cillin - you can set them up again after testing without these.
3. please post the contents of the DVCSETUP.log and the DVCCONN.log

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how do i access those log files?

 

They are in your Windows directory (typically C:\Windows)

 

in your windows directory (normally C:\windows)

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i uninstalled PC Cillin firewall/antivirus
uninstalled everything it tried to install from www.xbox.com/pcsetup

installed windows media connect to see if that would work since it was
working on my XB based machine and viola it found my PC and i was able to
connect.

next i went to www.xbox.com/pcsetup and ran that again, it finished and now
im running with no problems.

just got finished reinstalling pc cillin antvirus software and set that
firewall to low, on the medium setting it blocks the media center from
connecting.

thanks for your attention to this.

 

If you're running Windows Firewall (native to XP SP2) there's no need for
another firewall on your system. I would guess you've already got a
firewall on your router, and the machine is protected from the outside with
that. Additionally, the Windows Firewall will handle anything else from
another machine.
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glad it's working for you now

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hey Chris, im only using the pc cillin for antivirus, since there is none
with windows firewall. will windows firewall ever have antivirus built in.

 

Good then for your AV program. Microsoft is working on OneCare
(http://www.windowsonecare.com/) which is currently in beta. There seem to
be indications it may be included in the new Vista operating system when it
is released later this year.
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Associate Expert
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if you can believe anything from the Register, MS has decided for
business reasons to not include AV in Vista (as opposed to One Care
which is extra cost subscription)

http://www.theregister.com/2006/01/30/vista_security_allchin/

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Might be correct.
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Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
Associate Expert
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