Win 7 Pro & xbox.. Connects & freezes

[barryware]

I have seen a few posts with my problem but no solution except for changing the ram size settings in msconfig => boot which does not apply to me as my rig has 3gb ram.

I am currently dual booting between vista & win 7 pro. I have spent the last couple of weeks tweaking win 7 getting ready to start moving partitions and going to 7 full time.

My last task before passing the point of no return was setting up the extenders with 7.

I have 3 extenders... 1 xbox 360, & 2 linksys dma 2100's.

The dma's have no problem.. The 360, launches, I get the main welcome screen. The cursor is highlighting "recorded tv", the shadow around the recorded TV box moves, all it good. Except for the fact that that is all. The 360 does not respond to any remotes to navigate the screens.. The network as very busy when this happens as well as the cpu load spikes very high on both cores when this happens. I leave it alone for several minutes thinking that data is being transfered. Once the network activity stops, it is still unresponsive.

Sometimes, launching the dashboard (which terminates the extender session) and launching the extender again will allow it to now connect and work... sometimes not. More "not" than work. 5% works, 95% does not..

I have done everything I can think of.. I have removed the extender from the setup, installed it again, etc.. I have completely disabled and uninstalled my av & fw software (norton 360 V4) with no positive effect.

I boot the rig back to vista and the xbox has no problem at all (you need to set it up again for the vista mcpc which is a pita). I also have the same av & firewall software running on the vista setup. I have ruled out norton 360 as the cause. As I said, I have completely removed the software on the 7 setup and disabled the windows firewall completely.

I have been back & forth.. xbox has no problem in vista. The xbox is kicking my a$$ in 7..

I need some help.. I have not found a solution.. I will be very greatful for any suggestions or a known solution.

tia...

 

[Desslok]

When you say you removed it, did you remove it on the PC side or the Xbox side or both?

 

[barryware]

When you say you removed it, did you remove it on the PC side or the Xbox side or both?

Both.. uninstall from the mcpc, and delete the proper folder that resides on the xbox hard drive.

 

[Desslok]

When you say you removed it, did you remove it on the PC side or the Xbox side or both?

Both.. uninstall from the mcpc, and delete the proper folder that resides on the xbox hard drive.

Try this, remove it on the PC side if anything is there, then on your Xbox, go to system settings, computers, Windows MEdia Center, select it and Disconnect. Sometimes just deleting that folder doesn't clear it all out.

 

[barryware]

When you say you removed it, did you remove it on the PC side or the Xbox side or both?

Both.. uninstall from the mcpc, and delete the proper folder that resides on the xbox hard drive.

Try this, remove it on the PC side if anything is there, then on your Xbox, go to system settings, computers, Windows MEdia Center, select it and Disconnect. Sometimes just deleting that folder doesn't clear it all out.

Thanks... I'll be doing it over as I needed to set it up under vista again.. I have'nt tested it yet but will tonight.. While searching for this problem, it seems I am not alone.

I have an HP htpc (m8200n). The hp site suggests it is keyboard drivers on the pc causing the issue.. Kinda makes sence actually. HP does not support this rig under win7 so I am going to roll the dice and install MS's intellitype software & drivers for 7.

We'll see how it goes. I am still all ears for further suggestions. incase none of this works. You would think the win7 install would have the right drivers but it does only show a generic keyboard in the device manager.

Thanks for all the help and suggestions so far.

 

[Desslok]

I have noticed Win 7 being a little more touchy in certain situations networking wise as well, I suspect due to IPv6. Especially with older routers that seem to not play well with WIn7.

Don't forget to tune the Network on the Xbox once you do get it to connect.

 

[barryware]

I have noticed Win 7 being a little more touchy in certain situations networking wise as well, I suspect due to IPv6. Especially with older routers that seem to not play well with WIn7.

Don't forget to tune the Network on the Xbox once you do get it to connect.

My router will but atm does not support ipv6. I am running dd-wrt with a bunch of optware running on an sd card mod.

I have ipv6 turned off in the vista setup. Till now, didn't think of turning it off in 7. hmmm... maybe you are on to something.

7 also "auto tunes" the mtu. I found a way to turn that off and manually set mtu. This is also a possible fix.

I'd rather not install keyboard & mouse drivers from MS. These have given me problems in the past. I think I'll save that for last if nothing else works.

My plan:

disable ipv6.. test. success = i'm done, fail = manually set mtu. success = i'm done, fail = now try the keyboard drivers.

weird thing is that the dma2100 extenders have no problem.. just the xbox360 and only with 7, no problems in vista.

 

[barryware]

I have had no luck but the problem is not that the media center extender is freezing..

The problem is that when starting an extender session, something is happening that takes two minutes to complete. Once completed, then the extender is responsive. My success & failure trying to figure this out was just timing.

When launching the session on the extender, I get the extender welcome screen, it goes to the main screen and recorded tv is highlighted but I can not navigate or select anything. It just sits there.

During this time, the network is very busy as well as the load on the host cpu's spike to 95+ % load. It seems that there is data transferring or something. I have not been able to figure out exactly what is happening.

This takes 2+ minutes. When the network activity subsides, if I give it a little more time, the extender will now respond and work correctly.

It seems that I was not giving it enough time and thought it was freezing. However... what the heck is going on??

This does not occure when the host is a vista setup. It also is not a problem with the dma2100 extenders with win7. Just the xbox & win7.

Anybody have any idea what is happening and how to either stop the massive data transfer at the beginning of a session or cache it?

 

[daggiss]

hey im new at this forum and i hope to get some good brains to help me out here i run win7x64 and i have a xbox 360 elite that i want to hook up , i can run the media player from the computer on xbox but not any media center , when i try to add the extender i only get to step 2 looks like it cant find the xbox , but the xbox find the computer , anyone have a good idea please?

 

[barryware]

I have had no luck but the problem is not that the media center extender is freezing..

The problem is that when starting an extender session, something is happening that takes two minutes to complete. Once completed, then the extender is responsive. My success & failure trying to figure this out was just timing.

When launching the session on the extender, I get the extender welcome screen, it goes to the main screen and recorded tv is highlighted but I can not navigate or select anything. It just sits there.

During this time, the network is very busy as well as the load on the host cpu's spike to 95+ % load. It seems that there is data transferring or something. I have not been able to figure out exactly what is happening.

This takes 2+ minutes. When the network activity subsides, if I give it a little more time, the extender will now respond and work correctly.

It seems that I was not giving it enough time and thought it was freezing. However... what the heck is going on??

This does not occur when the host is a vista setup. It also is not a problem with the dma2100 extenders with win7. Just the xbox & win7.

Anybody have any idea what is happening and how to either stop the massive data transfer at the beginning of a session or cache it?

I have been working on this for hours & hours (days & days actually). I have no solution and I don't know what the problem is but:

When I launch an extender session, as reported, the welcome screen pops up with the music, it immediately finds the host pc, connects, then I get the main page with recorded tv highlighted. This is where it stalls.

I have found that if I use the xbox's wireless game controller, If I push the little start button to the right of the orb on the controller twice, the extender beeps or chimes if you will, then the extender is responsive.

The only button that works to "un stick" the extender is the start button on the game controller.

I have tried to find an equivalent button on the media center ir controller as well as the xbox's universal media center ir controller. No joy.

I can't believe I am the only one with this problem.

I have gone through the data drives and library folders and removed all the hidden files that were associated with the vista mc install, I have done more than one clean install of 7 and the last install, was a fresh drive, not a dual boot with vista.

For a minute, I thought turning off the menu animation was the fix. That seemed to resolve the problem. A couple of boots later, it was not the solution. The same thing happened.

I am at a complete loss and could really use some help.

 

[barryware]

Not that anyone cares... But I still have not found the cause, but I now have an acceptable work around where the wireless game remote is no longer needed.

Pressing the green button (square media center home button) labeled "start" on the microsoft universal ir remote (twice) will un-stick it.

Sometimes the mce will not stick. It seems that if the media center was launched at the pc for lets just say, watching live tv (on the pc). If the pc has not been re-booted since a media center session was run, the extender will run and not stick.

This also includes if the media center pc recorded a scheduled tv show even if a media center session was never launched.

So.. if the media center pc was active with media center tasks, the extender will launch and work normally. However if the pc was re-booted and there was no media center activity, the extender will stick after the welcome screen, at the main screen that defaults to "recorded tv" highlighted.

This is just odd.. I have no problems with my dma's (linksys dma2100 & 2200), just the 360. I never had this problem with vista, just win7.

 

[mlacy1358]

Just press the start button

I had this same problem...Windows Media Center would load on XBox and the main menu would appear but then it was frozen at that point. If I just press the start button on my XBox controller, the screen unfreezes and I am able to use it normally.

 

[Qmass55]

I have had no luck but the problem is not that the media center extender is freezing..

The problem is that when starting an extender session, something is happening that takes two minutes to complete. Once completed, then the extender is responsive. My success & failure trying to figure this out was just timing.

When launching the session on the extender, I get the extender welcome screen, it goes to the main screen and recorded tv is highlighted but I can not navigate or select anything. It just sits there.

During this time, the network is very busy as well as the load on the host cpu's spike to 95+ % load. It seems that there is data transferring or something. I have not been able to figure out exactly what is happening.


This takes 2+ minutes. When the network activity subsides, if I give it a little more time, the extender will now respond and work correctly.

It seems that I was not giving it enough time and thought it was freezing. However... what the heck is going on??

This does not occure when the host is a vista setup. It also is not a problem with the dma2100 extenders with win7. Just the xbox & win7.

Anybody have any idea what is happening and how to either stop the massive data transfer at the beginning of a session or cache it?

Xbox/Win Media Player/center can have problems with corrupted media files particularlly .avi and .wav, when you go to one of your libraries it may be trying to index it and having problems, on the PC go through your media library checking all the items there. Your sharing settings shouldn't be to broad either, Ie. the folder, not the whole drive. Look at taskmanager when your pc is maxing out, is it a process 'wmpnetwk.exe'? If so I'd be looking for file corruption somewhere.