Hi, I've been testing my live settings with two different xboxes for the last week or so when the bannings and the release of halo2. Here are my results:
Xbox 1:
X3 latest bios
Went on live with stock drive replaced after first login, the following day it was banned. Seagate 200gb drive.
V 1.1
Xbox 2:
X3 latest bios
Never went on live with stock drive, went on live with modded drive. Maxtor 120gb drive. HAS NOT BEEN BANNED.
V 1.1
Xbox 1 was tested with DOAU. Xbox 2 was also tested with DOAU however, after testing and found that it was not banned, I decided to test Halo 2 as well. STILL PLAYING AND STILL NOT BANNED.
For some of the people that got banned with just a swapped drive. There might be another reason why. My guess is this, with a swapped drive, if you left the modchip on to play a retail game, the game might have saved a file or something that will be transmitted to xblive telling that this xbox is modified. There is not sure way of telling what it is just yet. I only found thru testing that the marriage theory is more correct.