Topic: Marriage Theory - How To Not Get Banned. (Read 1859 times)

Naka · « **Reply #105 on:** November 13, 2004, 03:53:00 AM »

Welp, so far so good. I took my upgraded hard drive back to best buy and exhanged it for a brand new one. Bought a new EEPROM tonight and set it up. Made sure C and E were nice and clean. So far no problems. I have no idea if I was banned before or not. What I do know is that I went on live very recently with my stock drive and stock eeprom, and within a week I went on with an upgraded drive and same eeprom. I have a feeling if I would have went on with H2 I would have been banned. We shall see if all is the same in a few days. If so, I would venture to say the marriage theory is pretty much on the money...

Gumba · « **Reply #106 on:** November 13, 2004, 04:26:00 AM »

mrjkwik · « **Reply #107 on:** November 13, 2004, 09:14:00 AM »

here's an idea i had. i have 2 boxes, modded and virgin. (modded stats in sig). what if i installed 2 hdd swap drives. i found a site that has the bay and tray for 10 bucks and an xtra tray for 9. so i could have 2 bays (one for each box) and 3 trays (2 for upgraded hdds, and one for stock virgin hdd). do a case mod, install the bays. take the eeprom from virgin box, install it on modded box. so i would have 2 identical boxes, as long as i had the SAME hdd in there, right. would just have to make sure if i sign on with box one, it has the "live drive". if i sign on with box 2, i have the "live drive" in that one. and say i even went and got a new gt.

if i/someone else did this, and still got banned, then that would mean they are scanning for more. whether it be the dvd (one has tommy,other has sammy) or whatever. i know that opinion is they arent, but this could just be another test. and an easy way to save on drives

. if anyone wants the link to the swap drive bay/tray i was talking about, just pm me. unless more wants it i'll post it.

uk-hitman · « **Reply #108 on:** November 13, 2004, 09:36:00 AM »

Ok , Many of you are working on the married eeprom and hdd , I must admit this looks like the most valid explanation around so far .

I have started to look at this from another angle .
WHAT DOES MICRO$OFT GET OUT OF THIS

Point :- Well as we all know Micro$oft is big on the fight against piracy but really did this ban stop piracy ?
A :- NO We all know not to use copied games on Xbox live.

Point :- To stop cheating on Xbox live?
A :- IMHO Yes I think this ban has done this (for now) , As many people are removing mods and putting back there stock drive.

Point :- To increase the sale of Xboxes ?
A :- YES !!! Just look at the timing !! Just when Halo 2 comes out so many boxes banned. And I know of loads of people who went out to buy a new Xbox to get back online .

So looking at this I feel that Micro$oft is scanning for known game cheats (trainers) And I know If you use Slayer Auto Installer (Great Program Lads

) It installs a bunch of Trainers .

Thoughts on this please ..
Thanks to all who are trying to find out what Micro$oft are doing .

Ps . Please also be aware that Micro$oft keep an eye on this forum

dzv · « **Reply #109 on:** November 13, 2004, 10:16:00 AM »

meekzzz · « **Reply #110 on:** November 13, 2004, 11:00:00 AM »

Ok here is my setup

Got Xbox in December of 2002. Got live a week after that.

modded xbox with 120GB in feb of 2003 to use it as media center.

didnt play Live, much of 2003.

In early summer of 2004, i swapped my 120GB with a smalller 80GB.

When madden 2k5 came out in August, i bought it and played on Live.

I got banned because i played madden from original disc but the chip was on.

so i got new eeprom and was able to play on Live again.

I first played Halo 2 thurs nite, and my xbox did the update.

It's not 1pm on sat afternoon and I still havent been banned.

Anyone know when Live 2.0 came out?

All I know is if they started to log HD/eeprom since Live 2.0, when i replaced my eeprom in Aug, i should now be banned since i played halo 2.

Any thoughts?

meekzzz · « **Reply #111 on:** November 13, 2004, 11:03:00 AM »

one more thing i forgot to mention. before I went on halo 2 for the first time on thurs nite, i loaded to MS dash and erased any non MS game saves, things like XBMC. Also i deleted Xbox live account file and did account recovery before i even tried halo 2 on Live

maybe that reregistered my hd/eeprom?

syntaxx_error · « **Reply #112 on:** November 13, 2004, 11:10:00 AM »

meekzzz · « **Reply #113 on:** November 13, 2004, 11:15:00 AM »

nice! thanks

that'd be another confirmation on the marriage theory

If Live 2.0 started to log that info, anyone who's modded or changed eeprom or hd before 9/12/2004 should be ok as long as they dont change drives or eeprom now.

qBaz · « **Reply #114 on:** November 13, 2004, 11:29:00 AM »

Do we have any reason to believe that an xbox without XBL user info will still "phone home" with the eeprom/hdd "marriage" info? Or is the assumption that without user info, one is totally safe from accidentally connecting up to XBL?

I've got a v1.6 box, so there's no XBL-blocking bios that'll run for me. I was thinking to get a new GT and save it only to a memory card, so as to prevent accidentally connecting to XBLive when I'm booted through the EvoX bios.

Assuming we think this is a safe approach, I'm still looking around for a document on how to save XBL credentials to a memory card and _not_ the hard drive, if anyone's got a pointer.

revengeismyfury · « **Reply #115 on:** November 13, 2004, 11:56:00 AM »

Hey people
I got banned from live
so I was wondering
Im not using a modchip im using a half flashed tsop bios
I think I got banned because of my executer mod that was on my box which i broke all the traces on the modchip.

so if I install a new eeprom and use a stock hdd with it without replaceing my gt would it work
cause i just got mine renewed like a month ago.

Barcode · « **Reply #116 on:** November 13, 2004, 12:08:00 PM »

If this marriage theory is correct should I actually not want to switch my harrdrive with the stock one because my gamertag has been registered with my 80 gig's hd serial number? What do you guys think.
I don't even have a modchip installed.

Naka · « **Reply #117 on:** November 13, 2004, 12:24:00 PM »

Gumba · « **Reply #118 on:** November 13, 2004, 12:37:00 PM »

bigshooter13 · « **Reply #119 on:** November 13, 2004, 12:36:00 PM »

I installed an X2.2 and a 160GB locked hard drive before going on live, then I got live and recently put in an X3 and I'm still not banned.

I will be modding my friends xbox this weekend who has already been on live. So to get my information straight, will I need to get him a new EEPROM when I uprgrade the hard drive since his current EEPROM has already been married to his stock hard drive? Thanks

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