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[NoThanx]

You got banned because you used a different hard drive after you married your xbox to the stock hard drive.  It got married because you accessed xbox live for the first time with the stock drive in.

So now if you want to use a bigger drive, you'll need to get a new drive and a new eeprom.  Not only that, your gammer tag is flagged and will now check for drives that arn't used in regular XBoxes.  This means you need a new gamer tag as well.

I've heard poor things about Zodiiak's EEPROMS not working for allot of people.  You should try some of these other sellers, there are several on the forums.

This oneis selling eeproms for $5 (http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=437875) and I read spiffyville (sp?) is selling for under $10.

After you install a new drive and get a new gamertag (don't do a recovery) you should never install a new drive, unless you have a virgin eeprom.


good luck

[maximus9000]

i think my account got banned too. Now with this eeprom business, can u jsut copy and eeprom from a different xbox that doenst use xbox live? i got a few friends who dotn use live! so i was wondering if i could snag there eeprom.

[redsox786]

Sorry to revive this post, but I've finally decided to to buy a new eeprom and new large HD. But my question is this: When I get the new new HD and eeprom, how do I go about installing everything and signing up for xbox live? In other words, what order do I do everything? install new hd, then flash eeprom, then sign up for new xbox live account? or flash eeprom, then install new hd, then sign up for new xbox live account? Please help me! Thanks! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

[appleguru]

QUOTE(redsox786 @ Jan 3 2007, 02:59 PM)

Sorry to revive this post, but I've finally decided to to buy a new eeprom and new large HD. But my question is this: When I get the new new HD and eeprom, how do I go about installing everything and signing up for xbox live? In other words, what order do I do everything? install new hd, then flash eeprom, then sign up for new xbox live account? or flash eeprom, then install new hd, then sign up for new xbox live account? Please help me! Thanks! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Flash eeprom, install new HDD, lock new HDD, make sure you're using the retail bios, and THEN sign up for a new live account.

[redsox786]

what do you mean by using the retail bios? I have an xecuter 2.3B Lite Plus and I have just updated the bios to X2.5035. Also, when I install my dashboard and games should i leave everything on C: as is and install everything on F:? Thanks!

[0794]

QUOTE(redsox786 @ Jan 4 2007, 06:58 AM)

what do you mean by using the retail bios? I have an xecuter 2.3B Lite Plus and I have just updated the bios to X2.5035. Also, when I install my dashboard and games should i leave everything on C: as is and install everything on F:? Thanks!

He means using the retail bios on the TSOP chip on the motherboard - ie booting your xbox with the chip turned off will boot to the original retail MS bios.  With your chip turned on you will be booting to the X2.5035 as you mentioned.

You can add your dashboard to C and then put everything else on F.

Again, when accessing Live, just turn off your chip and use an original Xbox game.  If it doesn't boot double check that the HD is locked using ConfigMagic.

Good Luck.

I think that it is just easier to buy an xbox on eBay for $40-60 to keep stock for use on XBL and mod another one for your media and such.