Well the reason i thought this might work is because when i try to sign on with a banned eeprom it doent even get to attempt to connect because the eeprom says that i am banned. If i flashed the eeprom that i backed up before i was banned it would say that i am not banned. The question is, is MS keeping track if two of the same eeproms have been on with different xboxs (new hd and gt)? I have read that people have gone on xbl with the same eeprom at the same timme, and not got banned.




its all very confusing

they keep track of both the eeprom and the s/n of the hdd

somebody set me straight here:
I have an xbox that i used to play XBL on like 1 month ago. Since then I have put an X3 chip in and a 250gb HD. This means that I will need to get a new EEPROM if I don't want to get banned? I have yet to sign in to XBL with my modded box in fear of this.

Do a search. This has been VERY well documented in NUMEROUS threads.

a simple yes or no answer would have sufficed

The answer is yes. and that previous guys has been posting everywhere with the same sh*t. that responce is up there with saying www.google.com. Don't be a jerk cause at one point or another you needed help and asked a question that was probably already answered. As for the questions. You need a VIRGIN HDD VIRGIN EEPROM and a unflagged GamerTag. you have 2 out of 3 (the gt and HDD) you can buy a eeprom of this guy.

http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=143336

he's honest and sends instructions too. Good luck post if you run into trouble.

K Rock XP
www.squadxp.com

i h8 ppl who do this. it would have been easier to just help him out.
K Rock XP is right, you need a new eeprom, so you dont get banned

Sometimes it is justified to ask people to search, other times it is not. I expect people to do some reading topics on the first page and preferably the excellent tutorials on the XS home page. If someone shows they have done this but are stuck on a particular step, then they are likely to get a better response.

ordinarily i might agree with you, but his question was answered in THIS VERY THREAD, in my initial post in fact, if he had bothred to read even 1 post in the thread he was replying to he would have had his answer

It's difficult to read a site you value and look for posts that are actually valuable when you have a shitload of people popping in asking some question that is pretty much painted everywhere or hijacking a thread just because they're lazy/stoned/whatever.

I use this site, you use this site, we should be expected to police it appropriately.

you guys have valid points but the poor guy had a simple question. plus if it came from u vets then i would respect it. but the guy being a jerk. was a noob himself. so hes not one to talk. the time wasted with his smart a$$ responce he could of answered his question. but i agree the search function on this site is great and should always be used first. like i always say ur never the first guy with the problem.

K Rock XP

i wish we could edit outside of 15mins

Hopefully I wont get roasted for this question. I have a old 120gb hdd that was banned about 4 months ago. I'm picking up a new xbox and I plan on creating a new Live account. Is there a way I can change the hdd serial number on this banned hard drive so that I can use it on Live? I'm going to all serial ata in my desktop and I have no other use for this banned hdd. Any ideas? Thanks.

lol, i don't think it's possible cause i've read a lot of hours worth of these forums since joining. And never ran across this type of idea. but some of the vets might know.....lol roasted.

K Rock XP

Yeah... I havent been around here for a while. And rummaging through pages of threads can get tiring. Invision needs to better the searching capabilities to specify the page and not just the thread when searching on topics like this. O-well... heres to hoping.

No. (at least no one currently knows how)

So, sell the 120GB drive to someone else? (not for xbox usage, that'd be unethical)

when on XBL with a mod box. Does it matter if anyhting is on your E:/ besides the stock stuff???Cause i notice most program toos crap on the E:

K Rock XP

no, it doesnt matter. they dont do hdd scans (that we are aware of)

Well, I'm in an odd situation.

I have two Xbox Live keys, a 2-month and a year.

I also have a 'flaky' 120 gig HD I can use. It might die in a week for all I know. It might be fine.

The plan is to use that HD with the 2 month key. If it dies, can I use a different HD assuming I make a new gamertag with a new key?

you would need a new eeprom if the hdd dies, to keep playing on xbox live

I got a question..

Lets say you got banned from XBL while using a stock hdd. Would you need another stock hdd and an eeprom to get unbanned or just an eeprom?

Hi-

Here is my situation, I am wondering if I will be able to use live without getting banned.

As of now, I have no gamertag and have a modded box with an X2 and a somewhat older bios of evox running.

So I should be able to sign up for live get a gamertag and be fine since this would be a "virgin" drive for that gamertag, correct?

Here is where it gets tricky.

I was a beta tester for live and had a one year subscription from the launch of live until it expired. During that time, I modded my xbox. After that subscription ran out, I have not renewed and not played on live.

If I sign up now, I need to get a whole new gamertag, will I be ok?

Thanks

you should be good to go workmane

i upgraded my hd about 10 months ago AFTER signing up for live and i have never been banned - they did not start the marriages until last summer

You will need another stock hdd and eeprom.

it doesnt need to be a stock drive, any will do

True, if you also then want to then get a new gamertag,

but that wasn't the question

yer tru, just letting him know what he can do

this is so strange.

ok setup

xbox 1.0
xecuter lite 2.6 - i have always used the bioses that auto block live connection.
80 gig hard drive.

No, i KNOW i modded my xbox before i went on live and i am "pretty sure" that i had also upgraded the HDD - tho not positive.

I haven't signed on to live in maybe 2-3months. Now when i go to connect with the modchip disabled, it tells me that there was an error connecting - is this what you guys see when you have the modchip in there?

in the troubleshooter it tells me that my xbox's hardware or software has been modified...

additionally since failing to get on live, i cannot use xbmc, it freezes each time it loads - perhaps a coincidence, but i used it JUST before it failed live.

What the hell do i do now? I have another hard drive.. advice? I also have the stock hard drive... which i guess i will try next on the marriage theory.

What i do NOT want to happen is that i install the new hdd, and then find out that gets banned too.

also 2 other preobably stupid questions

if i get the new ee prom and put in anther hdd, do i flash the eeprom first or setup the hd first, or does it not matter...


also has it been established if we will need a new gamertag or not? My subscript is about to run out anyway.. so i dont' mind so much.

well if you used your brain you would quite easily see that it doesnt matter what order you do it in.

and yes, because of what you have said, i would say you would need a new GT, as the one that you currently will be flagged

Calm down a bit. When you're talking about combos of EEPROMs, HDs, GamerTags plus time pressure of having a subscription run out it's ok to post rather than search.

My advice to everyone is to switch your auto-renewal status to monthly directly when you've created the new account, likewise for existing ones. You could lose only £5 rather than £40 if you don't want to continue and if you do then you get a pro-rata rebate of the £5. (Or equivalent US$)

i was just saying thats its blatentley obvious that both have to be done before you go back on live, and thus it doesnt make a sjit of difference in what order you do it

ok

well thanks for the answers..

ferrari take a fucking valium.


i asked even though i felt it didn't matter, as i dont' want to spend MORE money and there are obviously people with MORE knowledge than I have about this.

Thanks all the same for the answers - and the defense.

im just saying, OBVIOSULY, both have to be done before you go on live, and this OBVIOUSLY it doesnt matter in which order you do it.

common sense

Its not obvious to most people, nor is it common sense.

i give up

Ok, so let me get this straight:

Old Stock hard drive, never logged into Xbox Live

+

Old Gamer Tag

+

New eeprom

=

Xbox Live?

I've got a buddies original hard drive from when I ugraded his xbox to a 250 gb. He was never able to figure out how to set up his nework to get on xbox live so his original hard drive should be a virgin.

sounds like it should work.

ok i've signed on to live before with my current xbox. But i gave it to a friend yesterday to get it modded. He says hes installing a switch but never said if he was flashing the eeprom when the new 200gb hard drive is installed. If he doesent flash the eeprom will i be banned? and... i have a current gamertag which i've already payed for the year subscription can i change it in any way to let me get onto live by making a different name or will i have to pay another 60 dollars for a new subscription?

if he installs a switch to switch hds, then you could use the old hd,

otherwise you will need a new eeprom to use the new hd without getting banned and your tag flagged.

Yeap.. you got it straight.

My gamertag is already flagged. Will this be a problem? Also, you are saying that if I want to use my 250 gb hard drive that I got banned with on November 8th, I can as long as I get a new eeprom?

just did an HD upgrade and TSOP flash went on live and boom modified xbox banned

No, you're misunderstanding.

You can only use a flagged tag with a stock drive (ie one which came with an xbox)

You can not use a banned hd on live... period.

If you want to use a banned HD on your xbox, you have to still use a different hd on live.

Ok so i was just recently banned. I had not played my modded xbox online since Halo2 came out. When I originally started live i had a 160GB then I upgraded to a 250GB Played on live a few times then Halo2 came out. I use a Xenium Mod chip. I have another xbox So I don't care this one has been banned but i would like to fiqure out how to get it back. I obviously want to keep my hard drive installed. Maybe I'll get a new case for the hdd switching but for now i have a few eeproms to waste so i'll find out if I can just use a new eeprom. I know your saying i can't. But Since I switched the hard drives does that mean both hdd keys will be banned or just the one i was useing when i was banned?

And one other thing. If I created a new gamertag the day before I was banned will both of my gamertags be flagged?

the 160gb hd is married to the eeprom you currently have in the xbox, that is why the marriage was broken and you got banned. neither hd will ever be capable of going back on xbl. if you have a v1.0 eeprom or two to waste, i would appreciate if you would send to me since i have just saved you from wasting the rest of your evening.

I have an older non-modded xbox that I used to go on live before this past december when I got a new xbox that I modded. I used to go on live with my new xbox simply by disabling my modchip. But now there's a problem with my video, it seems as if everything is black and white and scrolls like mad (but everything else works fine). And to fix the problem I'm thinking about taking the hard drive from my old xbox and swapping it for the hard drive in my new xbox. Would I still be able to go on live?

Btw, both hard drives are MS stock hard drives...

Actually, i think the original HD might be okay, its the banned HD which can't be used. But you do need a new eeprom as the eeprom is banned too.