I Need Help With My Newly Jtaged Xbox 360 Options

[franksinatrall]

I recently paid someone to mod my xbox because I wasn't using it and I wanted to have the option to stream movies/music from my PC to the livingroom TV, and I wanted to have the option to play a few games like UFC if we had company over. I told him that I know absolutely nothing about modding xboxes or getting games onto it, but he hasn't given me any information about what to do other than "use this forum".

So, I get XeXMenu 1.1 and put it on a CD, put the CD in the xbox and copied the files to the hdd, and now I can load xexmenu from the games section without the disc. Ok.

The problems lie in everything else. I can't get my xbox to interact with any of my computers or my external harddrive.

First I had the xbox plugged into the router (linsksys WRT54GL running tomato 1.27) with an ethernet cable, and my PC is connected to the network through a wireless card. I've forwarded the ports
* TCP ports 3390, 3932, and 5555.
* UDP ports 1900, 3776, and 7777.
and I've turned off firewalls and turned all sharing options in public and work/home to completely open. I tried setting a manual IP address for the xbox (192.168.1.9) and I have it on automatic right now (192.168.1.115)

When I ping 192.168.1.115 from my PC I get 100% loss and all the packets time out.

For a brief moment I could get the sample video in the public folder to stream, but when I tried to get the movies folder from my external and the movies folder from my desktop streaming it gave me xvid error problems, so I have to get the media center working. MKV files do not even show up.

Media center gives me the
"The Xbox 360 could not connect to the Windows Media Centre PC. Turn your Xbox 360 off then on again, and try to connect again."
error message every time I try to configure media center.

I couldn't log in to the xbox through FTP (using WinSCP) with the ip 192.168.1.115 as host and xbox/xbox as name and password. I tried both ports 21 and 22 (the default) and the connection times out.

So then I tried connecting my laptop directly to the xbox with an ethernet cable. Pinging it then gives C:\Users\Administrator>ping 192.168.1.115

Pinging 192.168.1.115 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 192.168.1.101: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.101: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.101: Destination host unreachable.
Reply from 192.168.1.101: Destination host unreachable.

Ping statistics for 192.168.1.115:
   Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),

FTP from the laptop connected by ethernet also times out.

Now as for the external harddrive. I have put the game iso and .dvd files on the external, but when I connect it to the xbox through any of the three usb ports nothing happens. In XeXMenu, I have tried everything and I can't locate the external to pull the file from that onto the hdd.

I am completely stumped. I can't stream my movies because it requires an update (although I managed to get music streaming to work) unless I go through media center. Media center doesn't work and I have tried all troubleshooting I could find through google. All of the guides say if the ping times out it's a firewall, but I have no firewalls enabled and even direct ethernet connect says the host is unreachable.

Can anyone help me troubleshoot this? Other forums have ignored me and I've spent hours trying anything I can find on google.

[Heimdall]

Other forums have ignored me

That might have something to do with you posting in completely the wrong place - this has nothing at all to do with "Technical Onboard Bios / Kernel / Dashboard Forum".

Get the basics sorted - until you can ping from the PC to the Xbox you won't get any further.

The direct connection isn't working because you probably haven't manually set the correct IP address in your PC. So, connect the PC to the Xbox via the crossover cable. Set the IP address of the Xbox to 192.168.1.100, and your PC to 192.168.1.101, both with subnet mask 255.255.255.0. Disable your PC firewall, and any other security software (e.g. your AV). Disable your PC wireless card to ensure that it doesn't get in the way, then try pinging from the PC to the Xbox i.e. "ping 192.168.1.100". If it doesn't work, try changing the sharing options, then repeat.

Once that works, post back here - hopefully by that time a moderator will have moved this to a more suitable forum.

Oh, and unless you have a massively complex network you don't need to forward any ports - the router only routes to the WAN (ISP) port, and both of your devices are on the LAN side of the router.

[franksinatrall]

That might have something to do with you posting in completely the wrong place - this has nothing at all to do with "Technical Onboard Bios / Kernel / Dashboard Forum".

Get the basics sorted - until you can ping from the PC to the Xbox you won't get any further.

The direct connection isn't working because you probably haven't manually set the correct IP address in your PC. So, connect the PC to the Xbox via the crossover cable. Set the IP address of the Xbox to 192.168.1.100, and your PC to 192.168.1.101, both with subnet mask 255.255.255.0. Disable your PC firewall, and any other security software (e.g. your AV). Disable your PC wireless card to ensure that it doesn't get in the way, then try pinging from the PC to the Xbox i.e. "ping 192.168.1.100". If it doesn't work, try changing the sharing options, then repeat.

Once that works, post back here - hopefully by that time a moderator will have moved this to a more suitable forum.

Oh, and unless you have a massively complex network you don't need to forward any ports - the router only routes to the WAN (ISP) port, and both of your devices are on the LAN side of the router.

Sorry for the delay, I had to carry the PC downstairs and set it back up.

I attached the computer to the xbox and set the xbox ip to 192.16.1.100, subnet mask 255.255.255.0 default gateway to 192.168.1.1 (won't let me set to 0.0.0.0). Then I disabled my Antivirus and wireless card on the PC, under properties in local area connection 2 I set the PC ip address to 192.168.1.101, subnet 255.255.255.0, default gateway 192.168.1.1

The local area connection2 shows up as Unidentified Network, shared. Activity shows 10,652 bytes sent and 7,750 bytes received.

When I ping 192.168.1.100 from the PC, it still times out. I tried using another ethernet cable, and that did not fix the problem.

Edit: I connected the PC to the router using Local Area Connection 1, then connected the xbox to the router. Then I pinged the xbox and 1 packet went through time<1ms

I pinged again and all 4 timed out.

Edit2: It appears my laptop is automatically being assigned the IP 192.168.1.101
When I try to change it to something else (like 192.168.1.102) I lose internet connection.

In fact for my PC when I try to assign a static IP I lose internet connection as well. I must be doing something wrong by setting gateway to 192.168.1.1 and preferred dns to 192.168.1.1

Edit 3:
I've tried everything I can think of, including rebooting the computer, and I can't get internet access with a static IP address. The automatically assigned IP addresses are:
Laptop 192.168.1.101
PC 192.168.1.136
Xbox 192.168.1.115
I need internet access on the laptop to see this thread. I need the laptop to have a static IP to get it off 192.168.1.101 to test the PC->Xbox connection Heimdall mentioned without IP conflict.

This post has been edited by franksinatrall: Oct 17 2010, 12:12 AM

[franksinatrall]

Sorry for the double post but I lost my ability to edit my posts?

I have no messages so if I got in trouble and lost permissions then I don't know why.

I'm at the point where I think I should just sell the thing and get some money back. Is it possible that these issues are caused by a faulty JTAG job, or if I sell it to someone who knows how to use it will they have no problems?

Edit: http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/7338/editl.png See I can't edit.

This post has been edited by franksinatrall: Oct 17 2010, 12:43 AM

[Heimdall]

You only have 15 minutes to edit posts - it's not a permissions thing, it's the way the board is set up.

I doubt that it's a faulty JTAG, it's more likely related to the way that MS make it difficult to set up the network on their recent OS - especially Vista. You just need to persevere with the network setup / sharing settings in your PC. I'm at an XP machine at the moment, so I can't walk you through it.

This post has been edited by Heimdall: Oct 17 2010, 01:25 AM

[franksinatrall]

Well I've got windows 7 on both of my machines, so I don't know what to do.

Maybe someone else with windows 7 can offer some assistance?

[tk_saturn]

If you want 'static' IP addresses, the best way is to go into the router and somewhere there will be an option to reserve devices an IP address.

My Netgear DG834G V3 for example



For me it's essential as I have one xbox permitted to pass though the WAN firewall, while the others blocked for Live's IP addresses/p orts.

[AZImmortal]

If you want 'static' IP addresses, the best way is to go into the router and somewhere there will be an option to reserve devices an IP address.

Unfortunately, not all routers offer Static DHCP as an option (even though I find it essential).

[franksinatrall]

Is there a way to do that with Tomato 1.27?

Edit: Nevermind I figured it out. Trying that now.
Edit 2: With xbox xuccesfully assigned to 192.168.1.100 ans pc successfully set to 192.168.1.101 the pings still time out.

This post has been edited by franksinatrall: Oct 17 2010, 07:54 AM