RE: 360/Vista Media Center Crashing

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Hi V"ali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx":
I came to the newsgroup about a problem of my own but saw your post and
I had the same problem and have solved it. My Xbox 360 was connected to the
Vista pc on my network but wasn't working right and after searching help I
discovered that somehow I hadn't set up the xbox correctly to connect to the
Vista computer. My problems with the xbox 360 were cured by using the new
Vista Media Center "Task" button you'll find on the start page when you open
the Media Center on your tv. If you scroll along you'll find: "add an
extender". If you set up your 360 using this procedure it should
automatically set everything up beautifully. If you already did it that
way.....guess I'm no help. I was trying to hook up the 360 without knowing
about the new "add an extender" within Media Center itself and got hooked up
but it worked wrong. I'm finding Vista takes some "getting used to"! Good
luck!

"ali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" wrote:

I just purchased a new windows vista PC with MCE. I was able to
connect my xbox 360 as an extender to the MCE . However I am unable to
control the media center on my 360. I can control it fine on my pc but
on the 360 the controller and remotes do not work. The system is not
frozen as the time changes and I am able to use the guide button. But
it will not allow me to select, watch and move anything on my xbox
360.

I thought it could have been my television card, so I removed in and
reinstalled Vista and ran the Media Center Extender without the TV
functionality and still the same thing - MCE on 360 doesn't respond
with controller or remote (although, like you said, the Xbox Guide
button works fine)...

My Xbox 360 was one of the first ones to market (purchased December
2005)

My computer (Compaq) has Geforge 7500 LE (Nvidia)

My router is a Netgear DG834G (version 2 according to the bottom)

My Network card in my PC is showing up as: Network adapter is Intel(R)
Pro/100 VE Network Connetion


I am using Windows Live Onecare final (with the settings on to allow
MCE) but I tried it earlier with the standard Windows Firewall and hit
the same issues.

My last PC (running XP) worked fine with my Xbox, so could it be the
graphics card or the network card... Seems unlikely to be the Xbox, I
suppose.

Ali


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