Re: Messenger SP2 Voice Chat

From: Stephen Harris (Stephen_P_Harris_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 12:47:12 -0700

"Confused" <Confused@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:3098DC61-F974-4B39-845C-3FACE975EEEC@microsoft.com...
> Both myself and my friend upgraded our machines the same day to XP Pro SP2
> release. We both had been running Messenger v4.7 and having voice
> conversations without any problems. We BOTH use the same router - a
> Linksys
> withPort Forward Range open from 1024 to 65535 for UDP protocol. This
> always
> worked fine for voice and file transfers. However, since the upgrade -
> major
> problems were encountered. If accepting or initiating a conversation -
> the
> Messenger crashed with a Memory Reference Error.. cannot Write.. We both
> uninstalled MSN Messenger and reinstalled v4.6 and then upgraded back to
> 4.7.
> This corrected the crashing problem. BUT - voice conversation still does
> not
> work. I have read on this board of trying v5.0 of messenger. We have both
> upgraded to this version with no resolvement of the problem. We have also
> both shut off the SP2 firewall completely. This did not work. We also
> tried
> to leave the software firewall on and set the router to DMZ on both
> machine
> (to totally open it up) - and this did not work. I am confident that the
> router is NOT the problem, since it never was until the SP2 upgrade took
> place. Please any help would be appreciated - MIKE.

They changed the version of WM in SP2. I think you should switch to
MSN Messenger 6.2, at least that works for me.

I use groups.google.com to do searches on keywords like audio and UPnP,
and the newsgroup is microsoft.public.msn.messenger

Make sure UPnP is enabled in the router. MSN Messenger will be
automatically included as an acceptable program in the Windows Firewall.
Run the audio video tuning wizard. Uninstall Qos. Turn off other firewalls
or uninstall them, at least temporarily.

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