Media Center Extender Help (XBox 360 & Vista Home Premium)

I am struggling to connect my XBox 360, as a Media Center Extender, to
my HP Pavilion TX1410US laptop (which is running Vista Home Premium).

I had a Windows XP Media Center computer hooked up over my existing
home network and it worked fine. I deleted that connection through the
first computer and disconnected it through the 360 as well. I was able
to obtain a new setup key through the 360 and enter it into Media
Center on the Vista computer.

On the 360 side, I am able to get an all black screen that says
"Windows Media Center contacting..." in the center of my TV (through
the 360), but it always ends with a "Connection Terminated" or "Media
Center Extender Error." On the Vista side, I am able to go through all
of the steps of setting up an Extender, but it always fails to connect
at the last step.

I know that the two can see each other, as I am able to stream music
from the Vista computer to the 360... I just cannot make the Media
Center work!

I have spent a lot of time troubleshooting this using online forums and
Microsoft instructional pages. I installed Vista SP1 about halfway
through and achieved the same results as before. I have checked every
driver I can think of for updates but nothing has helped. I have made
a direct connection from the Vista computer to the 360 and experienced
the exact same problem (theoretically ruling out a problem with my
router or home network). I have checked to ensure that the Media
Center is allowed through the Windows firewall, and it is. Just to be
sure, I've also tried disabling the firewall entirely with the same
results. I have made sure that the extender service is running on my
Vista computer and have restarted it to be certain. I have checked
error logging and found nothing. I have restarted both the Vista
computer and the 360 numerous times along the way. I have also broken
the Extender connection several times and tried again with a new setup
key from the 360...

I am completely out of ideas. It seems to me that something on the
Vista computer is not working properly or is configured wrong. Anyone
have any ideas what it could be or how to fix it???

Thanks!

J.R.


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This is most likely the fingerprint reader software interfering..
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/941949

On Wed, 21 May 2008 21:33:11 +0530, drpatazi
<drpatazi.39rqfe@DoNotSpam.com> wrote:

>
>I am struggling to connect my XBox 360, as a Media Center Extender, to
>my HP Pavilion TX1410US laptop (which is running Vista Home Premium).
>
>I had a Windows XP Media Center computer hooked up over my existing
>home network and it worked fine. I deleted that connection through the
>first computer and disconnected it through the 360 as well. I was able
>to obtain a new setup key through the 360 and enter it into Media
>Center on the Vista computer.
>
>On the 360 side, I am able to get an all black screen that says
>"Windows Media Center contacting..." in the center of my TV (through
>the 360), but it always ends with a "Connection Terminated" or "Media
>Center Extender Error." On the Vista side, I am able to go through all
>of the steps of setting up an Extender, but it always fails to connect
>at the last step.
>
>I know that the two can see each other, as I am able to stream music
>from the Vista computer to the 360... I just cannot make the Media
>Center work!
>
>I have spent a lot of time troubleshooting this using online forums and
>Microsoft instructional pages. I installed Vista SP1 about halfway
>through and achieved the same results as before. I have checked every
>driver I can think of for updates but nothing has helped. I have made
>a direct connection from the Vista computer to the 360 and experienced
>the exact same problem (theoretically ruling out a problem with my
>router or home network). I have checked to ensure that the Media
>Center is allowed through the Windows firewall, and it is. Just to be
>sure, I've also tried disabling the firewall entirely with the same
>results. I have made sure that the extender service is running on my
>Vista computer and have restarted it to be certain. I have checked
>error logging and found nothing. I have restarted both the Vista
>computer and the 360 numerous times along the way. I have also broken
>the Extender connection several times and tried again with a new setup
>key from the 360...
>
>I am completely out of ideas. It seems to me that something on the
>Vista computer is not working properly or is configured wrong. Anyone
>have any ideas what it could be or how to fix it???
>
>Thanks!
>
>J.R.
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http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/

Well, that did it!!! After everything else, all I had to do was
uninstall the Verisoft Access Manager and Media Center was fixed!

Thanks!

J.R.


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thanks for letting us know. glad this resolved the issue for you.

On Thu, 22 May 2008 01:25:11 +0530, drpatazi
<drpatazi.39s4bf@DoNotSpam.com> wrote:

>
>Well, that did it!!! After everything else, all I had to do was
>uninstall the Verisoft Access Manager and Media Center was fixed!
>
>Thanks!
>
>J.R.
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Barb Bowman
MS-MVP
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/e...ts/bowman.mspx
http://blogs.digitalmediaphile.com/barb/