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[doctor_dj]

[Penfoldian]

hhmmm i been banned twice before last year but since then I have been fine, I been playing H2 and a whole heap of other games, and still playing with my mod off while playing pgr2 and rb6, no ban!

But I dont use Avaluanch, Dont use Evox or ThcDash, but I'm afraid to say what I am using now cause boy! i cant risk getting banned!

however.....Avaluanch goes on the net to get news feeds and so forth updates etc and also u can telnet etc... so maybe there is a M$ Ava thing going on...

[JaXbox]

I think u guys should cool it about Avalaunch being the reason for banning..
I'm not denying that M$ might be scanning the Z-folder for specific ava-files, but it might just be a mere coinsident - and there's no real way of knowing when ppl have different offline and online gaming history.

It might just as well be that M$ is scanning for EvolutionX's evox.ini or UnleashX's config.xml - which are both easy to spot out because they have static file-names (correct me if I'm mistaking here - but I dont recall being able to rename ones config-file in EvoX or UX)

I'm more hooked on the idea about the static hdd serial!

[A.Z.BEST]

. Or at least for few months more. Cross your fingers ;P.

P.S. Polskaaaaa, Bialo- czerwoni !

[the joker]

-TJ

[Orangey]

QUOTE (homerboy @ Oct 20 2004, 09:23 AM)

I'm prepaid for a year... and have used maybe 6 months worth. Do I get a refund?

 

Not gonna even go into all the jokes I could make about that one...

[poiygon]

Is anyone keeping track of what games they are playing with the mod on? Live Aware could have something to do with it.

[tommyam]

For modders who have not been banned previously am i corect in assuming the best and safest method of using 1 xbox for both Live and mods is the 2 hard drive method... using your stock ms hard drive for Live and your modded hd for everything else... as far as I'm concerned, the 4981 bios completely locks out the possibility of connecting to live and even if they are flagging my hd, that hard drive will never see the light of Live's day... and if they are simply scanning for hard drives other than stock, when i'm on live, I'm using my stock hard drive anyways so there is nothing to find in the scan... Lastly, unlocking the modded hard drive would prevent actually leaving the mod chip on but accessing the retail bios, as a green screen of death occurs when trying to access the retail bios with an unlocked drive...

I see two ways of accomplishing this:

1) Llama' s 4 Connector IDE cable which is everything needed for simply using a power switch to toggle between modded and stock hard drives

-or-

2) Using hard drive carriages that allow quick and easy swapping of hard drives

So, is either of my two ways above fool proof? it seems to me that it is but i am a rookie compared to many of you and want the straight skinny if I'm wrong, thx

[sirfloyd]

Has anybody taken their Live account Settings(Gamertag,Credit #'s,address so on)and Inputted it on to a New(or used),Untouched Xbox?
Then see if you get banned?

I'm asking because I'm going to buy a used,untouched Xbox transfer over my live account settings and just run my live games on it.

I know you think this is giving MS more money but I have gotten so much out of my modded Xbox it's still like spending pennies on dollars.
Thanks
Sirfloyd.

[ssj4android]

QUOTE (the joker @ Oct 20 2004, 08:33 PM)

No we ain't cocky or ignorant, we just belive that xbox live shouldn't be involved with modified xboxes... and as far as eeprom accessing go, its capable of failing in any program.

What do you mean xbox live shouldn't be involved with modified xboxes?

[Orangey]

Correct me if I am wrong..

But with regular stock XBOX's, the EEPROM is tied to the Hard Drive. So in other words a Stock Hard Drive from Box "A" can't be used in Box "B" unless it is unlocked, etc...

So, If MS banned you once and they recorded the Drive Serial. Then they see you playing again with the same Drive Serial but different EEPROM, they ban you again, and again. This seems to be the case 90% of the time lately. The other 10% are just the normal idiots who accidentally sign in with the Chip On, etc. Has anyone reflashed their EEPROM, and changed Hard Drives and been banned?

Just my 2 Cents, as I'm definitley no expert on the subject.

[ceweked]

I been on live twice today with no problem.
250gb HDD
dash Avalaunch

[exiva]

QUOTE (Orangey @ Oct 20 2004, 09:04 PM)

Correct me if I am wrong.. But with regular stock XBOX's, the EEPROM is tied to the Hard Drive. So in other words a Stock Hard Drive from Box "A" can't be used in Box "B" unless it is unlocked, etc... So, If MS banned you once and they recorded the Drive Serial. Then they see you playing again with the same Drive Serial but different EEPROM, they ban you again, and again. This seems to be the case 90% of the time lately. The other 10% are just the normal idiots who accidentally sign in with the Chip On, etc. Has anyone reflashed their EEPROM, and changed Hard Drives and been banned? Just my 2 Cents, as I'm definitley no expert on the subject.

i have changed my eeprom, and hd. but i dont know if ive been banned, my xbox is being fixed. soon as its back i'll let you know

[djjsin]

I have never been banned on xbox live, and as far as I know I still haven't been banned.  I haven't been on xbox live for almost a week or two though.

But I do have a friend who's Xbox I setup, usual setup, 160gb harddrive, avalaunch, x2.3 lite.  He play's live all the time, has never had a banned system, and I didn't get to tell him what was going on until today.  Last time he played was lastnight, and pretty much every day of the week before that, and has not been banned.

[handles25]

If he gets banned I'll let everyone know.

I think MS is blacklisting two things.  1.Boot up with a mod on with live your fucked(I agree with this, no cheating.)
2.Jacked Halo 2 files.  MS owns this gaming network.  They can scan the hd if they want my question to you is why certain people and not others.

I assume they tag some files on the HD with a list of creditcard numbers and eeprom that have been banned before or something to that degree.

Id be willing to bet anyone that had been banned before and DL'd and played Halo 2(yes one player, not online) has been extra blacklisted.

There was a dash upgrade that made sure as shit Linux wouldnt work.

Carry on.