Just for anyone dissrupting this thread with stuff of no use to anyone, i thought i would just remind people of the current theories of the new xbl banning
1.) The Marriage TheoryOk this is the theory that was pretty confirmed for the last two days, until recent newer theories. The marriage theory suggests that sometime around september it is believed, a new xbl update recorded your hard drive serial/model information, along with your eeprom information. It is believed that now when looging into xbl, the system checks your current hard drive serial/model information and your eeprom information again, and compares to what is stored on the xbl databse. If these are not identical, you will be banned. The solution was suggested that if you signed up to xbl after upgrading your hard drive, then xbl would record your new hard drive as stock and store it in the database, therefore people who have used xbl before upgrading their hard drive are at risk as the database may carry their old hard drive information.
2.) They knew it all alongThis is a not so common theory to have appeared in this thread however it could still be relavent. This theory suggests that every xbox console to leave the manufacturing plant, has its hard drive and eeprom information recorded. It is believed now is the time that MS could be starting to update this into a database to compare to the box' current information as happening with the marriage theory.
3.) Scanning for files?This is a very unpopular theory. It is the suggestion that xbl could be scanning for unsigned code on the xbox hard drive, such as dashboards, ripped games, and applications. However alot of people understand that MS would not be entitled to do this making this a pretty lame theory i believe
4.) Hardrive PasswordThis is the newest theory to hit the topic. Founded by -Gadget- It shows positive explanation and is looking quite probabal so far. This theory is based upon those who have already been banned once and of whom are now flagged by xbl. It seems to be
very hard to get back on live after your gamertag is banned and so this seems to be a further check by xbl if you are in this situation. Xbl may be possibly checking your hard drive password which is said to be quite an easy thing to check, and with many apps locking hard rives under the password "TEAMASSEMBLY" it could be that m$ are scanning for hard drives locked under these passwords. Having your gamertag banned is said to be a very severe case of banning and it is said that MS will place extra security upon these people, therefore this theory could suggest to one of these further checks that MS may be performing.
Thanks -Gadget- for the info B)
5.) Detecting the chip itself on the LPCThis also is a very new theory which is proving to be extremely explanitory to the recent bannings. It is believed that xbl could be detecting modchips by poking at different pins on the lpc (where the modchip sits). Although turning the modchip off by switch, boots original bios, it does not disconect power from the modchip, hence the led' are still turned on with the chip off. Turning the chip off by switch merely stops the d0 from grounding the connection and stops it from booting the modchips bios. This theory came after a very inteligent and repected post after noticing the colour of his x3 switch turning to purple when launching xbl. This theory seems very promising that MS could actually be detecting the chip itself.
There are many people out there, wondering why they were banned and posting ridiculously long situations that do nothing to solve the problem, so please people dont expect an answer here, we want a solution too so everyone get experimenting.Good luck, Mike!
This post has been edited by .::.Dinomatic.::.: Nov 13 2004, 01:19 AM
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