Topic: Possible Solution! (Read 62 times)

opjose · « **on:** November 15, 2002, 04:39:00 PM »

No this is all wrong.

See the thread I started on this topic.

I'm actually getting somewhere on this and have had some very good sucess.

dpgz · « **Reply #1 on:** November 15, 2002, 04:49:00 PM »

u tried it yet then?

bearauto · « **Reply #2 on:** November 15, 2002, 04:49:00 PM »

QUOTE (Pr0crastin8r @ Nov 15 2002, 03:45 PM)

Opjose, I read your entire post this morning, but I refuse to believe that it is 100% not a mod problem. There is too much evidence otherwise, even though your argument is strong.

Anyway, I have a few questions for you. Have you tried logging onto the release games, i.e. Ghost Recon or Mechassault? And I do remember reading that somebody had a tech-support convo (maybe it was bob-xblive or whatever his name was) where the tech said to him exactly what I just said above about the factory-settings code. Also, I have seen a post on TXB stating that some people were unable to get their reset code from tech support because they were told not to give it out unless absolutely necessary because of some issue with XBL/modchips.

I am not going to believe that I am wrong until I try this for myself tonight.

I don't think you read the entire thread...

bearauto · « **Reply #3 on:** November 15, 2002, 04:53:00 PM »

QUOTE (Pr0crastin8r @ Nov 15 2002, 03:37 PM)

From all the crazy posts I've read and all the convo's on IRC I've observed in the past few days, this is what I can piece together:

If you log on to XBL with a mod-chip, immediately or sometime in the not too distant future they will put a cookie on your E: drive in one of the four undeletable folders that stops you from properly connecting to live.

However, if you have your HDD "reset to factory state" code, this clears the cookie and you can log on to XBL again, of course with your chip disabled and using retail discs. There are a ton of anomalies though so this theory doesn't apply to everybody. But anyway, I'm going to try it tonight after I figure out my HDD code.

About that... from what I understand, at the system info screen, you press
(Y) (UP,DOWN,LEFT, OR RIGHT) (A,Y,X- ANY COMBINATION 3 PRESSES LONG)

Does the above formula check out with any existing codes that you guys have gotten from tech support? Please post your unique code for comparison if you have yours.

I actually came up with a similar theory as well...check opjose's thread.

ChocoboLee · « **Reply #4 on:** November 15, 2002, 05:00:00 PM »

QUOTE (Pr0crastin8r @ Nov 15 2002, 11:37 PM)

If you log on to XBL with a mod-chip, immediately or sometime in the not too distant future they will put a cookie on your E: drive in one of the four undeletable folders that stops you from properly connecting to live.

However, if you have your HDD "reset to factory state" code, this clears the cookie and you can log on to XBL again, of course with your chip disabled and using retail discs. There are a ton of anomalies though so this theory doesn't apply to everybody. But anyway, I'm going to try it tonight after I figure out my HDD code.

Are you sure it's something in E: that prevents you from loggin on again. I thought they have a blacklist? If they don't have a blacklist, then maybe I can add a switch to my modchip and always turn it off before I log on... I need to know b/c I'm tempted to just go buy another Xbox.

And if it's just a cookie on the E:, can I delete it without having to wipe out everything on my xbox?

9ign · « **Reply #5 on:** November 15, 2002, 05:03:00 PM »

I can confirm that this information is all false.

I just got off the phone with tech support, I formatted the drive. My code to format was Y X DOWN L X.

It fails to delete the Live update and user. The problem still exists after the format.

-9

originalbadboy · « **Reply #6 on:** November 15, 2002, 05:07:00 PM »

No offence 9ign ... but all Tech support sucks ! ... also you use the word 'format' but I doubt if it does format the drive ... all it probably does is remove your saves .. and thats about it ... This is obviously the case ,as you still have Live on the hard drive ...

clifface · « **Reply #7 on:** November 15, 2002, 05:12:00 PM »

well if you have a bigger hd in all you need to do is boot to the hdprep disk and that will wipe everything, repartition, and get it to how it should be.

wiseblood · « **Reply #8 on:** November 15, 2002, 05:14:00 PM »

Well, opjose, who has done a vast amount of trouble-shooting on this, says that the Live update detection file does not get put on the hard drive,
it gets put somewhere else internally in your Xbox, so 9ign is relaying valid information.

Fuzzy · « **Reply #9 on:** November 15, 2002, 05:33:00 PM »

whatever i trust opjose he knows more than all of you combined so im just stickin behind him and waiting for his answers...everything was fine but now my xbox's gone screwy so im depending on him...

Deacon brown · « **Reply #10 on:** November 15, 2002, 06:04:00 PM »

Guys please read this we are rumbled

Pure and simple like the group Hear say!!

http://forums.xbox.c...x?PostID=149789

Pr0crastin8r · « **Reply #11 on:** November 15, 2002, 06:06:00 PM »

I didnt bother to click your link so i dont know what it is, but i just read pike's post about the ms newsflash. i guess everything i said is wrong. doh! well at least i tried.

opjose · « **Reply #12 on:** November 15, 2002, 06:23:00 PM »

QUOTE (Pr0crastin8r @ Nov 16 2002, 12:58 AM)

I'll be happy if opjose solves this messy problem as well and I highly respect him... but right now it seems that people are having all sorts of different problems and no one theory I've heard aligns with 100% of the reported problems that I've seen.

If you read my entire thread, (I even relented!) it does indeed explain the entire sequence of events with EVERYONE.

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