opjose could you answer a quick question for me. I just installed my matrix chip. I have it set on mode3. My hard-drive is the original that came with it, nothing else loaded on there. I bought xbl before I put in my chip and did the update. I have booted to the original xboxdash, but did not use any features on the dash, I turned off the power after getting to the dash. My question is did I set the flag off or can I still set my chip to mode 1 and play xbl with retail games, or am I screwed already?

Dunno.

I'm not sure as to exactly what you've done.

Frankly I'd expect to be banned with a Matrix in Mode 3 sooner or later.

At some point you are bound to make a mistake and get banned.

A switch is somewhat better, but then you must keep XBLive games off the hard drive, the oem dash disabled from within Evolution-X, the XBLive enabled games put away, etc. etc. etc.

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All it takes is once. One mess up, go online with the LED green on the mod, and your screwed.

Z

QUOTE (Zander @ Nov 23 2002, 07:55 AM)

^ ^ All it takes is once. One mess up, go online with the LED green on the mod, and your screwed. Z

Does doing the connectivity test count as going on LIVE?

QUOTE (opjose @ Nov 23 2002, 08:25 AM)

Frankly I'd expect to be banned with a Matrix in Mode 3 sooner or later. At some point you are bound to make a mistake and get banned.

oh how easy it would be to forget....

QUOTE (bearauto @ Nov 23 2002, 05:37 PM)

QUOTE (Zander @ Nov 23 2002, 07:55 AM) ^ ^ All it takes is once. One mess up, go online with the LED green on the mod, and your screwed. Z Does doing the connectivity test count as going on LIVE?

Yes.

QUOTE (opjose @ Nov 23 2002, 04:52 PM)

QUOTE (bearauto @ Nov 23 2002, 05:37 PM) QUOTE (Zander @ Nov 23 2002, 07:55 AM) ^ ^ All it takes is once. One mess up, go online with the LED green on the mod, and your screwed. Z Does doing the connectivity test count as going on LIVE? Yes.

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