a friend of mine brought me a softmoded xbox that his kid hit play live on one of his games and now all it does is go to the trying to update xbox live then it will say live is not responding this xbox has never been on live and never will be guy dosent even have internet access how do i get rid of this thanks in advance

If it's not modded just hook it up to the internet, boot it and let it update.

Um... right.

Can it boot any games at all? You may be able to load the exploited game or a copy of Slayer's and fix the dashboard.

If it can't boot anything, then you'll have to hotswap the HDD into your PC and use XboxHDM to rebuild the drive. Either rebuild it to stock, or you could re-softmod it with Kingroach's Ndure package or something similar.

cant get it to boot anything gonna have to hotswap i guess thanks

Hot swap Tutorial is Here