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Posted on Jan 12, 2008

PC Selected - Failed

Help, I'm trying to stream movies & music down from my PC to my xbox 360. when i test my media connection it tells me that PC selected - Failed

My network route
Internet->Belkin F5D5231-4 Cable/DSL Gateway Router->then 1 x ethernet cable to my PC and 1 x ethernet cable out to my xbox.

Xbox live works without any problems. I have wmp11 set up to share with my xbox. ive turned windows firewall & Mcafee fire wall off and forwarded the correct TCP&UDP ports on my router.


How can i fix this problem

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  • ayjay80 Jan 14, 2008

    Thanks for the idea. After reading various forums and trying numerous fixes, I think deleting the files in my DRM folder coupled with restarting my windows media player network sharing services it seemed to work.



    Cheers anyway

  • nell13 Jun 03, 2008

    it use to stream music but now it doesn't and when i did the test it said PC selected failed. please help

  • Chipclips Nov 25, 2008

    every time i put one of my games in the disk slot on my x box 360 the game never works and i have notist that there is a noise every time i do put the disk in that it apers to be un read able

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Click Start, click Run, type cmd.exe, and then click OK. a. At the Command Prompt, type the following text all on one line: reg add HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CURRENTCONTROLSET\CONTROL\CLASS\{4D36E967-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318} /v UPPERFILTERS /t REG_MULTI_SZ /d PartMgr /f You receive the following message in the Command Prompt window, to indicate that this command was accepted: The Operation Completed successfully After you done that restart and download xboxxpsp2-enu.exe...and you should be good to go if your firewall ports are open 1900,10280,10281,10282,10283,10284 dup and 2869,10243 tcp good luck Restart the computer. 4. After the computer restarts, you can run the Media Center Extender for Xbox 360 application

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Wmp11 streaming works upon universal plug and play on your router to direct streaming. I have had this problem too. Maybe people do. I found that upnp on my router was always the problem. Make sure it's enabled, and if you have not restarted your router do that. and after you enable upnp, its a good idea to restart it also. I'd give it a 75% chance its a universal pnp problem. Yet if your port forwarding, you might need to disable it, i dont know, i always just used upnp for simplicity. Finally, double check you have a static ip for your port forwards if you continue on that route.

  • Anonymous Jan 14, 2008

    lol ya drm would do it

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