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Modded Xbox drives banned from Xbox Live ?!?!?

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  • 11-11-2004 1:54pm
    #1
    Scruff
    Registered Users Posts: 4,222 ✭✭✭


    From http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=19600
    Hard drives are Sheeshkebabbed

    By INQUIRER staff: Wednesday 10 November 2004, 18:48


    REPORTS ON A FORUM said that Microsoft is taking further steps to prevent people who have modified their Xboxes from going to Xbox Live.

    Microsoft had previously banned people with modded chips inside their Xboxes from accessing the service.

    But now, according to a popular forum, Microsoft has extended the ban to people who, rather than using the modded chips, have changed their hard drives.

    According to this, forum, Microsoft can detect machines with changed hard drive and prevent them from accessing Xbox Live.

    According to the forum, people's individual Xbox Live accounts are just fine - it's a modified machine that's bansheeshed.

    There's a little confusion about what is exactly happening. Some people are concerned that Microsoft is scanning their hard drives. But the chief moderator of the forum thinks that if modchips are turned off, you won't have a problem. µ


    anyone know if this is true?


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    #2
    thelad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 177 ✭✭thelad


    Yes it is...you can use alternatives such as xbconnect to play online


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    #3
    Scruff
    Registered Users Posts: 4,222 ✭✭✭Scruff


    whats xbconnect?

    i have an xbox but its not modded and i dont have live :o but was going to do both in the near future.

    heres a big thread on the issue http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=303603&st=0


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    DiscoStu
    Registered Users Posts: 2,277 ✭✭✭DiscoStu


    you should be fine as long as any hard drive upgrade is done before your xbox logs onto live for the first time. once that happens the eeprom and hard drive serial number are tied. once microsoft notice a change its ban city of the box in question.


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