- MagicGibl3t
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- Exalted Legendary Member
First off, if your router didn't come out of the box saying that it was Xbox Live compatible, you can check the manufacturer's website and see if you can get a firmware upgrade for it. I have an older router that didn't work with Xbox Live until I updated the firmware, and now it works perfectly.
Second, the so-called "Searching for Games" screen is always within the game itself. For Halo: CE, this screen is under the system link section of the menu, and I think it actually says, "Looking for games...". For Halo 2, it is also the screen that shows the list of system link games that are open on the network. So basically, for the program to detect your box for ANY game, your box has to be sitting at whatever screen you use to CHOOSE the game you want to enter for SYSTEM LINK play.
Third, if it is still having a hard time finding the box, you may need to shut down your firewall. However, if you have windows xp with Service Pack 2, it should ask you if you want to open all connections that XBC uses. Just click "Unblock" when it asks you, and it tells the firewall to allow traffic on the XBC ports.
Fourth, you HAVE opened the ports on your PC for the XBC connections, but you may also have to forward ports in your router. I don't know the numbers, but you can probalby find the port numbers that need to be forwarded in the router on the XBC website. You may need to forward some to your Xbox, and some to your computer; I don't know off hand.
I did have that problem with Halo 2 a couple weeks ago though. I could get every other game to work on XBC, but every time I had H2 in there, my XBC couldn't find my box. Weird. I think that has something to do with my PC card ethernet adapter for my laptop that I'm using instead of my on-board NIC that fried in a power surge.