Topic: New Info On The Live Banns. (Read 811 times)

Dieseldoug · « **Reply #120 on:** October 29, 2004, 06:50:00 PM »

So what's the safest alternative to all this if you have a modded box and upgraded HD running a dash such as.....Avalaunch? Is it simply to stay away from XBL for a while or go out and buy a new XBox?

jonas1 · « **Reply #121 on:** October 30, 2004, 12:16:00 AM »

Alright, so I haven't read the whole thread. But in any case, my brother and I bought Xboxes at around the same time (a couple of year ago), modded them, and have had no problems -- that is until last week, when he was banned from Live. He did not have his chip on (he uses the Xenium ICE chip which he upgraded to about 2-3 months ago). He has never been banned before, etc. etc. Anyway, so I figured with all this talk about a hidden partition, I'll give it a shot, putting my original Xbox HD back into the machine, and logging into Live (haven't played in a month). Everything worked fine -- the Live software was installed to the original HD, and then I had to relaunch to the Live Dashboard, run the Account Recovery wizard to get my account on the original HD, and went ahead and played. I logged on and off mutiple times to make sure everything was kosher.

BTW, the theory about the Live account information being retained on the hidden partition seems to make sense. Before I figured out the "Account Recovery" thing in the Live menu, I figured I'd just boot with a EvoX CD with my original HD in, copy over the all the Live folders from the modded HD, and hopefully that would pull up my account information. Well -- it didn't work, prompting me to use the Account Recover thing. In any case, I thought this might help.

In the meanwhile, a simple fix to the problem to prevent being banned on XBL might be to replace the two device IDE cable in the XBox with a three device cable, add a power splitter with a switch inline, and there you go. I saw a tutorial for something like this already posted on http://www.llamma.co...a_harddrive.htm. Not the prettiest solution, and not the most elegant, but maybe the safest until someone figures something better out.

mattme121 · « **Reply #122 on:** October 30, 2004, 12:25:00 PM »

i put my gamertag on my new one and had no problems. Im not sure whether i was banned (see my post on previous page). I need to cancel my account so if i cant my gamertag back ill get another and ill try on both my xboxes.

Dieseldoug · « **Reply #123 on:** October 30, 2004, 12:36:00 PM »

Not sure if this is of any use but I recently modded my XBox and HD. I'm using Xecuter2.3 pro and I haven't had any issues signing into XBL.

I'm just throwing this out there but would it be beyond the realm to think Bungie and M$ released a Halo2 version on the net with code knowing that the only people that would get their hands on it would be XBox modders and these same modders would load the games on their modded systems and BANG they snag ya!

dafuzzbudd · « **Reply #124 on:** October 30, 2004, 12:57:00 PM »

im getting "cant connect" for weeks now

i tried my old hard drive with a new eeprom(possibley unclean) and no luck
do i need a fresh eeprom and a new hard drive?

my original eeprom got the "hardware modified message" but no longer does

any theories or guesses on what's wrong or how i can fix mine ? PM me please

Yoma44 · « **Reply #125 on:** November 01, 2004, 08:32:00 AM »

quicksilv · « **Reply #126 on:** November 01, 2004, 10:06:00 AM »

fooshead:
the xboxserial is in the eeprom data. it might be stored elsewehere also but for the moment we don't need to believe MS is banning on the 'real' serial as a lott of people can return to xbox live by changing eeprom + new hdd (+gamertag?)

   [EEPROMDATA]
   XBOXSerial   = "315154523603"
   XBOXMAC      = "00:51:F4:61:6B:9F"

   OnlineKey   = "6F:B3:24:29:D4:FC:69:F3:E7:DA:CA:93:E4:B8:08:01"

   #ONLY Use NTSC or PAL for VideoMode
   VideoMode   = "PAL"

   #ONLY Use 01, 02 or 04 for XBE Region
   XBERegion   = "04"

   HDDKey      = "3C:C1:4F:09:B6:33:A6:76:59:26:E89:76:A1:BB:21:E1"
   Confounder   = "00:00:00:00:C10:C7:14:00"

Numbers here are changed by me

jabrbox · « **Reply #127 on:** November 01, 2004, 10:36:00 AM »

I just changed HDD and new EEprom, will let you know tommorow if I get banned again or not

istvan007 · « **Reply #128 on:** November 01, 2004, 03:02:00 PM »

I have a modded box with a 120 gb hdd, wich got banned after accindentely signing on to live with the chip turned on.

After that dumb mistake, I bought 2 eeproms and soon after installed the first one. It worked for about a week, but then I was banned again. The second eeprom didn't even work for five minutes. I then decided to bite the bullet, and I no whave a brand new box. Wich has been on live for 3 days running.

Btw, when I was doing my 2 attempts to recover my box. I was using my the original 8 gb hdd.
This lends some credence to the eeprom/hdd sn theory.

GamezMan · « **Reply #129 on:** November 01, 2004, 03:19:00 PM »

Dieseldoug · « **Reply #130 on:** November 02, 2004, 04:29:00 AM »

GamezMan · « **Reply #131 on:** November 02, 2004, 01:12:00 PM »

punkasscrab · « **Reply #132 on:** November 03, 2004, 06:59:00 PM »

that wants to get on live for H2 but he has a modded box. It has a switch to change from retail bios to an old version of executor (I think) and a 120G.

He switched to the retail bios and booted up. When he tried to log onto live for new account it goes through all the checks and passes everything until it says xbox live not found.

On the top of that screen is a place where it says serial numbers and all 0's

Should it show a number there and if so how can I recover whatever it was?

Thanks in advance.

mjortman · « **Reply #133 on:** November 10, 2004, 05:12:00 PM »

For the people saying "If you've never been banned, you're okay", that's not necessarily true. I've been on Live since it came out, no problems. Got a Xenium Ice, left it turned off to play NFL 2k5, works fine. Play RS3 (with chipped turned off), and it worked fine. Today, which was the first day I've logged on in a couple of weeks, I found I was banned without putting any game in. So it doesn't necessarily have to do with whether you were banned before or not.

Here is my setup:

Xenium Ice Solderless chip
STOCK hard drive
STOCK DVD drive
EvoX bios and dashboard, both on C partition

I'm thinking that either EvoX modified my EEPROM files, or MS realized I had something other than "normal" stuff on the C partition. Since I have a stock HDD, I don't know what else it might be (although I don't pretend to be all-knowing in this whole ordeal).

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