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Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: roolf on October 25, 2005, 10:10:00 AM
Maybe I am beeing too careful but I am a bit worried about logging into live now after the update. Anybody know if this update will do something to the current banning system? E.g. scanning for large drives without beeing flagged first etc.

I have a two way tsop flash with a 250 GB hardrive. Never been banned and been on live for the past year. I would like to continue on live...

Anybody experienced somthing strange? (I guess it's ok and I am just beeing paranoid)
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: HornstarBU on October 25, 2005, 10:36:00 AM
I am right there with you, being careful...better someone else get banned than me.  Has anyone gotten on, and can conferm that nothing has been added to scan for larger HD's?  I'll try tonight if no one posts by then.
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: ROM666 on October 25, 2005, 10:39:00 AM
Banned! I have never played a game on Live. I sigend up for a 2 month trial one week ago. Brand new Xbox. Upgraded the HDD and added a Modchip before ever even plugging into the net. Have been able to log into XBL until now. I tried this morning, and I got the "....modified hardware or software" message. Oh well. Thank God I could give a rats ass about XBL.
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: HornstarBU on October 25, 2005, 10:47:00 AM
QUOTE(ROM666 @ Oct 25 2005, 12:43 PM)
Have been able to log into XBL until now. I tried this morning, and I got the "....modified hardware or software" message.
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OK, this scares me!
Who else has been banned after the update, and what mod were you using?
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: ROM666 on October 25, 2005, 10:45:00 AM
Duox 2, 250Gb Maxtor HDD, some LED's  jester.gif

I have always made sure to NEVER have my mod chip enabled when connecting to  Live.
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: lordvader129 on October 25, 2005, 10:55:00 AM
the updates are nly supposed to update Live to support 360

but if they did add soemthign to ban all large HDs, whats the difference? you get banned for you large HD, or you swap to a stock HD and get banned under marriage theory, either way youll need a new eeprom and new HD, so whats everyone scared to log on for? im gonan log on as soon as i get home from work, i need more people to get on and telll me if anything has changed
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: Statecowboy on October 25, 2005, 10:56:00 AM
QUOTE(ROM666 @ Oct 25 2005, 12:43 PM)
Banned! I have never played a game on Live. I sigend up for a 2 month trial one week ago. Brand new Xbox. Upgraded the HDD and added a Modchip before ever even plugging into the net. Have been able to log into XBL until now. I tried this morning, and I got the "....modified hardware or software" message. Oh well. Thank God I could give a rats ass about XBL.
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That doesn't make sense.  You said you've never played a game on live before but also said you used to be able to log onto live.  If you log in, then you can still get banned, whether or not you play a game.  Once your hdd gets matched up with your eeprom and you swicth either of them, poof.
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: ROM666 on October 25, 2005, 11:02:00 AM
Let me clarify. I don't play games. The only reason I got an Xbox was for my 5 year old son. (Turns out I shoulda got one long ago, LOL) Anyway, I enjoy the hacking aspect of it being a long time satellite hacker. The only reason I logged onto Live was to test the banning theories. I have not changed anything since my intitial sign up. I was able to log onto XBL on Sunday. Now I cannot. Maybe was something I did. Maybe not. Does XBL connect when playing a non live backup?
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: lordvader129 on October 25, 2005, 11:15:00 AM
QUOTE(ROM666 @ Oct 25 2005, 12:06 PM)
Does XBL connect when playing a non live backup?
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sometimes, Live-Aware games will log you into Live so you can messeges and invites
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: ROM666 on October 25, 2005, 11:29:00 AM
QUOTE(lordvader129 @ Oct 25 2005, 02:19 PM)
sometimes, Live-Aware games will log you into Live so you can messeges and invites
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Then it may have been Wallace and Grommit, or The Nightmare Before Xmas.

Dunno?
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: 281R on October 25, 2005, 12:13:00 PM
I've been able to connect to it, but it keeps logging me out, and then sometimes it wont connect. So it appears its still having issues.
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: schumy on October 25, 2005, 12:15:00 PM
QUOTE(281R @ Oct 25 2005, 07:17 PM)
I've been able to connect to it, but it keeps logging me out, and then sometimes it wont connect. So it appears its still having issues.
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same problem here log in but it logged out always, all is ok when do test connection, i think only some problem aftter upgrade
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: 3thirteen on October 25, 2005, 12:39:00 PM
Got on and am playing fine in Halo 2.  Modded with a 2.6 xecuter and 120gb drive.
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: kermit007 on October 25, 2005, 12:52:00 PM
No clue as to if they are blabket banning large HDs since I flip to my stock anymore to get on, but just getting onto Live is a 50/50 chance in general at this point. It keeps erroring out that it can't connect with the Live service half the time and even when you can get logged in you get logged out very eaisily. I'm rather saddened to say that I fully expected something like this to happen...

This post has been edited by kermit007: Oct 25 2005, 07:53 PM
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: bluedevil5 on October 25, 2005, 07:11:00 PM
damn i was on for a while and banned im not too happy about it oh well guess its xbc till 360
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: adamscybot on October 26, 2005, 02:22:00 AM
At current - why dont have any confirmed information on the new surge of bannings.
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: g0tr3wt23 on October 26, 2005, 05:08:00 AM
Went home from work last night and signed on to XBL at 6:00pm and played a few rounds of Halo 2 with no problems whatsoever...

250 gb Western Digital
DMS X-Bit
Xecutor2 4983.67

All dashboards, apps, emus, and backups loaded on f and g
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: will042082 on October 26, 2005, 01:59:00 PM
love.gif
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: adamscybot on October 26, 2005, 02:46:00 PM
Logged on to live and played 2 hours straight. Not banned - will check tommorrow though.

Large HD too.

Adam
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: VenaticalOne on October 26, 2005, 02:50:00 PM
I logged on and didnt get banned, I only have a softmod

it was laggy as hell though, worse than a modded game of Halo PC
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: ILLusions0fGrander on October 26, 2005, 07:11:00 PM
hmmm... my eeprom and hard drive are less than a month old after just getting unbanned... now im kinda worried... whats the word from you vader? you get on ok?
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: Hyper_Eye on October 26, 2005, 10:02:00 PM
QUOTE(Promage420 @ Oct 26 2005, 11:32 PM)
I'm going to assume that I'm banned (see above post).. if I bought a new Xbox to use until the 360 comes out, would I be able to use the account recovery on the new xbox to get my accounts transferred over?
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: adamscybot on October 27, 2005, 01:42:00 AM
Your gamertag will be flagged though so make sure you never put a modified HD in it unless you purchase a new gamertag to use on it.

Still not banned BTW.

Adam
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: 00g on October 27, 2005, 03:21:00 AM
Xbox #1 - Not banned
1.6b
X3ce
Stock HDD
Files on C:, E:

Xbox #2 - Not banned
1.6
X3ce
120gb Maxtor
Files on C: E: F:
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: adamscybot on October 27, 2005, 08:16:00 AM
MS themselves seem to be having problems with their own updates. I would either call them or wait until the problems are sorted out.

Adam
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: FoxRacR17 on October 27, 2005, 07:00:00 PM
I have been on since live came back up, as well as my 3 friends with modded xbox, and none of us have been banned at all.  We all have files on C: E: F: and G: so i really doubt they are scanning hard drives.  I have never been banned before and i modded mine and 2 of my friends xbox's before they even touched live.  My other friend i had to get a new eeprom from him but he has never been banned.  Dunno why you guys are getting banned but that is 4 people that i know including me that play on live all the time and we have yet to be banned.
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: adamscybot on October 28, 2005, 02:29:00 AM
Dont quite understand this. I'm not banned - it is now kinda obvious there are no 'new checks' going on - it's just peoples minds being scared of the supposedly 'new checks'.

Im not experiecing any 'limited' or broken experience on xbox live but if you do it may still be true that MS are having problems. Call them.

If you get banned now it is most likely its just because you didnt comply to the same old marriage theory.

Adam
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: Lord Magnus on October 29, 2005, 08:55:00 PM
What the hell ? I leave for a few weeks and when I'm back I found this topic!

I was informed of the xbox live outage through e-mail, but I haven't been able to play on Live for something close to a month.

I'll log into Live tonight, and see what is up.

Is it an update for your xbox, or just for xbox live servers ?
What I mean is, is this update, supposed to add files on your xbox HDD ?

I'll log in tonight, and back again tomorrow morning. I'll be back with any results.


Greetings to all. It's good to be back fellows.

Edit: when I said : "I was informed of the xbox live outage through e-mail, but I haven't been able to play on Live for something close to a month." I meant that I haven't been able to get near my xbox for that period of time since I've been really busy with work.
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: FoxRacR17 on October 30, 2005, 01:46:00 AM
all they did was update xbox live to support the xbox 360.  Nothing more, nothing less.  I dont see how people are getting banned because like i said, i have my xbox modded with a x3 and a 200gb hard drive, my friends all have x2.6's with 120gb hdds and NONE of use have been banned from xbox since the downtime and we play halo 2 on xbl almost every night together.
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: Lord Magnus on October 30, 2005, 08:32:00 AM
I see. I also thought the update was only for xbox live servers, but I figured I'd ask since I haven't been able to get around my box in a while.

I just connected this morning again, after a few matches of GR2 last night, and everything worked normally.

And the people that have gotten banned through these past few days, might have gotten banned through regular methods, but it's just coincidental that happen after the so called update.

So far, so good.

Good luck guys.
Title: Anybody On Live After The Update?
Post by: tryintomod on October 30, 2005, 01:15:00 PM
i have a 2 way split and a 250 gig hdd and I haven't gotten banned and I play live all the time every day.