Topic: New Info On The Live Banns. (Read 955 times)

snyper1982 · « **Reply #75 on:** October 21, 2004, 12:44:00 PM »

i dont know the specifics of whats going on, because i have never used live on my box. But here is something else to kick around, i was under the impresion, could be false, that they are using intel chips in the XBOX. Well remember the big controversy a while back when intel started puting Processor IDs on their chips? Whos to say that these processors dont have a unique id? just some food for thought.

like i said i could be way off, just another posibility to throw out there.

dFunk · « **Reply #76 on:** October 21, 2004, 12:47:00 PM »

i just read this article..thought it might be helpful

http://www.theregist...of_banning_mod/

I havent seen it posted anywhere else yet

kezzz · « **Reply #77 on:** October 21, 2004, 12:59:00 PM »

teetu · « **Reply #78 on:** October 21, 2004, 01:14:00 PM »

here is my 2 cents!

I would be curious about someone who fits the following criteria:

1. Original HD
2. No dash or apps on HD
3. Gamertag on memory card and not HD
4. Been previously banned and has reflashed eeprom

Anyone here with the above that has been part of the recent banings?

FoxRacR17 · « **Reply #79 on:** October 21, 2004, 01:21:00 PM »

Is everyone that is getting banned have a 12 month subscription or a 2 month subscription? Because i just started on live about 15 days ago, and i have a 200GB HDD with 50 games, and numerous apps, and dashboards on the HDD. I have never been banned before and i have yet to be banned. Does M$ ban people who are using the 2 month subscription or do they wait untill you shell out 50 bucks for a years and then ban you? My hypothesis on all this was that maybe they were scanning peoples hdd for that "certain leaked game" and are banning people that have it on their hard drive or have a gamesave on their hdd. I was thinking this because it seems like some people got banned right after they were playing this "certain game" on xbc or something and then tried to get on live to find out they were banned. But i do think that the gamertag and HDD serial number are a good reason for right now, someone should try it, put in a stock hdd from another xbox, get a 2 month subscription (if m$ bans 2 months), go on live with the chip on thus banning that eeprom, hdd, and gt, then switch hdds,eeproms, then sign up with another 2 month and see if you get banned.

Gumba · « **Reply #80 on:** October 21, 2004, 01:27:00 PM »

I'm wondering how many of you guys who got banned ran h2... heh.

I'm patiently waiting for my pre-ordered halo2 to arrive :-P

YouKilled · « **Reply #81 on:** October 21, 2004, 05:32:00 PM »

Strud1512 · « **Reply #82 on:** October 21, 2004, 05:37:00 PM »

miggidy · « **Reply #83 on:** October 21, 2004, 07:02:00 PM »

miggidy · « **Reply #84 on:** October 21, 2004, 07:04:00 PM »

Yankee Ruin X · « **Reply #85 on:** October 21, 2004, 08:03:00 PM »

This has everything to do with the Halo 2 leak true they may not be scanning your harddrives looking for Halo 2 saved games on it but they will probably have a very long list of people who have been banned before for modding their xboxs and they will make sure that they are banned. I think the Halo 2 leak was the last straw for M$ and now they are going to be working there hardest to make things difficult for people with modded xboxs because they will be the people who are downloading it because only they can play on it. I myself have never been banned yet (for hardware or software issues) and I'm still not banned so it must be something to do with you being banned previously

sludem · « **Reply #86 on:** October 21, 2004, 08:14:00 PM »

the been banned before thing sounds kind of right but i have a friend who has never been banned before and they got him too. the thing is we know they are banning us what we need to findout now is how are they catching us forget all the halo stuff cuz im sure you all who had it took it off and tried a new eeprom and it still didnt work

Yankee Ruin X · « **Reply #87 on:** October 21, 2004, 08:22:00 PM »

Tsharkou · « **Reply #88 on:** October 21, 2004, 09:27:00 PM »

OK, listen since I am the one how has had his account closed and GT banned, i will tell you since I am nearly two weeks and I am still kickin since my new setup. I and maybe I alone am the only one who was banned and at the sametime recieved an email from M$ about my account cancellation. Once an account is cancelled you must get a new GT, so a GT can be banned or "cancelled" for a better word. I already explained earlier how my setup is....

Now my theory--After now playing for nearly two weeks after my xbox has been banned and account cancelled, I figure that a few factors took placed;

1. On the day I was banned I played Madden 2005 on Live w/ chip off
Then I turned my chip on to play TWG 2005 of the HHD. Shortly after I got an email from M$ saying that I was in violation of the "code of conduct" agreement and that my account is being cancelled.
--Now could this have been in result of the EA Games theory?

2. I had previously been banned aproximately 7 time in the past 3 months do to live aware and using the m8 bios (by choice because of the custom flash text i inserted on load), so now the were cleaning out those GT that they had once flagged before.
--M$ was pissed off already about H2 leak and decided to do a mass flag dump on previous flagged GT to prepare for the problems that may arise when H2 does arrive considering the hacks that were done to PGR2---and the did exist on live just like the R63 hacks did.

3. There are a number of things that could have gone wrong considering that all that got banned had some type of hardmod or softmod done to their box. So that alone is enough.

Now while everyone is sitting waiting on some solution here is how I look at it...

-I spent $50 on a new GT--not $149 on new xbox
-I still have my modded xbox but with a made stock HHD with nothing but what is required on c:\ and e:\ without any hacks
-I have been back on live for nearly 2 weeks without any problems

Sounds like the solution to me!

miggidy · « **Reply #89 on:** October 21, 2004, 11:21:00 PM »

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