A Must Read About Xlive Ban, U may not be banned as u think u R Options

[thebuffman]

This probably should have been an added post to one of the already popular 30 pagers but I decided to post this seperate because I didn't want anyone to miss this.

I recently modded an xbox for a friend of mine. It is an xbox fresh out the oem box. Before I did anything I modded the xbox with X3 and dropped in a 160 gig WD drive. I used Fire's X-Disk for the auto-install which puts everything to the F drive and leaves the C drive with original M$ data.

Problem happened when I booted with the X3 disabled and tried accessing xlive. I received an error message that my box required servicing and to please contact M$. Rebooted with X3 enabled then disabled and over and over and over. Not a problem booting the box disabled or enabled but everytime I tried to go xlive i got the servicing error. *snap* I must have gotten him banned some kind of way *snap*. This is what I thought to myself but this didn't gel with the whole marriage theory thing.

So I started thinking, "hmmmm what if there is a problem with Fire's rendition of the M$ C partition." Easy enough! So I wipe/format the C partition and boot with Slayers older 2.5 installer (not the 2.6). I knew the 2.5 didn't have the xlive data completely installed on it. Xlive still showed in the menu option but it was just a link to the xlive site, no xlive files are fully installed with this version.

The box went out to xlive and xlive did its thing. The software was automatically downloaded to my xbox and installed. After it went through all of its configurations I was able to access xlive without a problem. Before I could and now I could. No idea what Fire's disk had on it that caused this dilemma but starting with a bare bone C: partition and allowing M$ to install xlive for me fixed the trick and revealed to me that I was not banned like I thought I was. At the same time it supported the marriage theory 100%.

Hope this enlightens someone situation.

*Peace*

[lordvader129]

fires (or at least your copy) probably had some corrupt files in the xodash folder

msot of the banned peopel are getting an error saying their xbox was modified or that live cnanot be reached, not a standard service error

[nitemare]

fires (or at least your copy) probably had some corrupt files in the xodash folder

msot of the banned peopel are getting an error saying their xbox was modified or that live cnanot be reached, not a standard service error

exactly right..has nothing to do with the bannings. I have the same modified error..

[r1v3n]

I had a similar (not COMPLETELY similar) issue with my installation. I used SlaYer's 2.6 to install a factory C: drive. My problem came from the fact that the xbox dash would not load at all (screen but no menu) with the X3 disabled. I used 2.6 again to simply format the C: drive and then copied my old original 1.0 C: image that I took when I bought the box and let XBL do its thing to upgrade.

Have had no problems since.

There MAY be a problem with some of the files on 2.6, but I'm not entirely convinced of that. All the other tools work fine. It MAY be with the installation of the Retail image.