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Maverick923

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« Reply #30 on: October 15, 2004, 06:22:00 PM »
Just to clear things. I have never been ban until yesterday. My box has been fixed and running legit games on live for about a year, and no I have no stock. $1.20 is nice to have.
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« Reply #31 on: October 15, 2004, 06:55:00 PM »
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No pre-release French software. No getting online when the chip was disabled, I have the 4981 bios to prevent that from happening.

I have a large hd (80gb) with the c/f boot so that when I boot with the chip off, the M$ Dash can't see my F drive.

I was banned a month or 2 ago while being a dumbass. Installed new eeprom and everything worked great until yesterday.

I also got the "Could not connect error" error immediately when I tried to troubleshoot my connection. This is unlike the first time I was banned when it took a good bit before it returned the "could not connect error"

I also have an xecutor 2.3b+ lite.

From what I can tell from what I have in common with all the other recent banees, the banning has something to do with checking who was previously banned.
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« Reply #32 on: October 15, 2004, 07:18:00 PM »
sad.gif Yet another proof positive of my "theory"  sad.gif

MS is going after people who have been banned once and have replaced their EEPROMs.  ph34r.gif
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« Reply #33 on: October 15, 2004, 07:26:00 PM »
QUOTE (Modiller @ Oct 16 2004, 03:26 AM)
your theories incorect because I was banned and had never replaced my eeprom

Tell us more about your setup. Large HD? What's your BIOS? Any special setups on your BIOS? What games on Live do you play? etc. etc.

BTW, MS could be banning for multiple reasons, so just because you haven't been banned before doesn't mean MS isn't also banning for that reason in addition to a reason that would apply to you.
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« Reply #34 on: October 15, 2004, 07:37:00 PM »
QUOTE (Modiller @ Oct 15 2004, 07:26 PM)
your theories incorect because I was banned and had never replaced my eeprom

Well pin a "Dumbass" medal on you....Nah J/K mate   beerchug.gif


They may be banning multiple ways, just too early to tell. But almost 12 people in this thread have been banned in the past 48 hours. All of them replaced their EEPROM at some time or another. Good Day.
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« Reply #35 on: October 15, 2004, 08:26:00 PM »
QUOTE (Tsharkou @ Oct 15 2004, 04:11 AM)
This happened to me....infact I got an email from M$ stating that my account had been permanentlt closed. here it is....

Do not respond to this email address. It is not monitored.



This email is to notify you that your Xbox Live account has been permanently cancelled due to violations of the Xbox Live Terms of Use and Code of Conduct.  



Xbox Live expects that all customers abide by the Xbox Live Terms of Use and Code of Conduct.  These documents provide the guidelines for appropriate activity and behavior while playing on the Xbox Live service.  You can view the Terms of Use and Code of Conduct from the Xbox Live Dashboard under Xbox Live Policies in Account Management, or by visiting http://www.xbox.com/.../termsofuse.htm.



If you have any questions regarding the Xbox Live Code of Conduct, please contact Xbox Customer Support.



Thank you

Xbox Live Community Management team

that might have been because too many people gave you negative feedback
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« Reply #36 on: October 15, 2004, 09:57:00 PM »
QUOTE (Orangey @ Oct 16 2004, 03:21 AM)
sad.gif Yet another proof positive of my "theory"  sad.gif

MS is going after people who have been banned once and have replaced their EEPROMs.  ph34r.gif

Thath is a pretty good theory... If I had to choose wich one of all the possibilities mentioned over here could get you banned, besides having you're chip on, but I believe you all in that.... having the experience of getting banned makes you chek twice before going online.

Anyways.. if I had to choose one from the whole bunch.. I'd have to agree with Orangey... makes sence.

So let me get this straight... NONE and I mean absolutley NONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT GOT BANNED in this period of time we're talkinga about, had a... let's say "virgin" eeprom of their own? the one that came with your one and only xbox when you bought it?

Keep on posting... we'll see what's going on.
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« Reply #37 on: October 15, 2004, 10:37:00 PM »
My eeprom was from another Xbox that I have kicking around. It was perfectly good, had never even been on live.
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« Reply #38 on: October 16, 2004, 10:30:00 AM »
QUOTE (dcartello13 @ Oct 16 2004, 06:34 AM)
Gonna have to buy a fresh xbox and not do jack to it. it will be just my XLive box!

ya thats what im gonna do.  Its not too bad a deal really.  W/that new bundle we get 2 games Top Spin ($20) and NCAA 2k5 ($40), both of which are live compatible, and a new controller ($30).   So in essence ur paying 60 bux for a brand new headache free xbox live experience.  Seems like a decent price to me, considering all the games I havn't had to buy due to mr modchip wink.gif
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« Reply #39 on: October 16, 2004, 11:06:00 AM »
oh...god i just had an idea...some of us have listed our gamertags on our forum sigs, any chance M$ is taking names??????? HIDE!!!
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« Reply #40 on: October 16, 2004, 11:26:00 AM »
Ok have a next xbox ready to go back online AND i want to put in my bigger hdd...BUT im afraid of it getting banned agian ...

But My freind and I think that MS are banning boxes based on new eprom but SAME MAC Address ..

...because seeing as iv been banned twice in just ove a week..how do MS know whether ir not that the 2nd time i had a new xbox but put  same bigger hdd in it ??? surly they wouldn't be banning ppl for that... so we think it must be the MAC address...

And yes i am p***ed at MS for this... if i had tryed to go online with chip on then yes,, but i didnt but along with all these other ppl im banned for no-good reason.... an i bet the PPL WHO DO HAVE A PIRATE HALO2  ON THEIR BOXES ARNIT BANNED...

MS Suks
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« Reply #41 on: October 16, 2004, 03:56:00 PM »
anyone givin any thought to this theory?

Is it possible for LIVE to determine that a connetion is made to allow something to boot from the LPC's? Possibly the D0 connection?

I only mention this because i am banned as well. I just reflashed my eeprom about 4 days ago and played online. I have a 1.1 xbox, SmartXXv2 with LCD and a Seagate 250gb drive. Since ive installed the LCD, when I boot the original bios from the chip, i still get the custom text on my LCd so I am thinking its possible that xbox live may "pulse" the LPC's or D0 to see if a "alternitave" bios option is available, then ban.  Just a guess at this, since my custom text is still available and the light on this chip is on, TECHNICALLY the chip is on. That means ALOT of chips are still on. My old Matrix had a light that comes one EVEN when its "off" and my SmartXX v1 did the same. SInce it obviously is powered, is it under attck from micro$oft? If it is, I think it violates our rights to a extent, but M$ may hide under the "modified software on Xbox Live sh*t."

Ive also thought about the Halo 2 possibility. I admit ive done some research into it, but i dont want to ruin the suprise by playing it in French so I am a faithful Halo fan and waiting for the official release. Is it possible M$ has collected IP's for "marked" xbox uilites and banned those from the system? Its a longshot, but I wouldnt be suprised!

Another thoery, no longer thought to be a longshot....
Since most of us store our thirdparty applications on the F drive where M$ cannot find it, there is configuration files for some of these apps on the E: drive with the saved games. Even the cache drives have information from some dashboards.  Ive always been curious as to when they were going to look for these. We spend alot of time and effort to keep these software somewhere else than on the C and E partition, but they still leave their mark. Even alot of dashboards themselves store info on the C partition right next to the XboxDash.xbe! Could be a number of things I guess. Maybe the smartxx team that found the HD check needs to look again at the recent code.

If thats true, I would like to PERSONALLY thank the person that released Halo 2 on the internet by saying, "THANKS FOR RUINING IT FOR ALL OF US!"
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« Reply #42 on: October 16, 2004, 04:23:00 PM »
FOLLOW UP!

As i checked my email, I have a message from MS asking me to update my billing information, not related to the other email that was found in a earlier post. As I scrolled through it, they send a download! I enclosed a pic of the .css file that was sent to me by MS.

user posted image

Maybe unrelated, but I can send this file to you if you wish, or forward this email to yours. Just PM me.
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« Reply #43 on: October 16, 2004, 05:02:00 PM »
Banned Last night for the second time, tried a new eeprom and the xbox wouldn't accept my account retrieval details. Called xbox live support to check that my card details were correct and the guy put me on hold and never came back. Just waiting for an email now to tell me my accounts been canceled.

I cant use my save games now, anyone know why?
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« Reply #44 on: October 16, 2004, 06:21:00 PM »
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GameAngel: you can't use your game saves, because the gs's are binded to consoles EEPROM. If you get yourself unbanned, you change the EEPROM, which actually means that you change your consoles serial number and few more things. So the console is not more your past xbox. The gs's are binded to the previous EEPROM- console...
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