New wave of XBL bannings (firmware detection?)

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Lol, didn't that kid end up getting one anyways?

Edit: Nvm.

[Twigg4075]

like the kid whose parents gave him the 360 box with no console in it?

Exactly like that.

No soup for you!

[Goober]

like the kid whose parents gave him the 360 box with no console in it?

YouTube- Brother on Christmas unwraps fake XBOX 360

Looks like his mama in the pink ate it.

[MmmmBeeeeer]

they cant see every thing but they do know certain things such as BIOS details there is one at every boot you think that ball with the X on it is just for looks. there is a small storage capacity within the xbox itself just enough to record a few logs of Hardware ID mismatches and Hardware Failure

Hardware ID mismatches = immediate flag which more than likely will result in your ban.

Hardware Failure +3 equals flag inspection. if its your DVD-Rom drive that failed more than three times, your living on borrowed time.

as these are logged and sent out every time you connect to live you cant hide from it.

people think MS seats there and finds people to ban. when its your console rating you out to the live servers.

no thats not a Hardware ID mismatch, every piece of hardware in each and every xbox is stamped with a digital ID the drive's may be the same the may even have the same Hardware tag. but the ID is different in every xbox

not having the power cord connected to the drive is counted as a failure you can have up to 3 of these. any more and the xbox Tells Bigbrother Down in Redmond that Somethings not right. this doesn't mean immediate ban it means someone or some machine will try to see how it failed by reading the log your xbox sent.

hence your riding on borrowed time, as all they have to do is type in some nice little commands that make the xbox squeal like a captured German.

sometimes they just ignore it, like in my case having a launch console they more than likely thought it was just an overheat issue or perhaps at the time it was modded they were swamped with Hardware failure logs

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[MrBill]

The final word is in from the person that would know about the cause of the recent bannings. Just what we thought, bad rips and playing warez releases early.

<+c4eva> fw itself not detectable

<+c4eva> suspect they are going hard on warez releases and incorrect use of abgx!

He also added the following:

<+c4eva> just to let you know that im looking into the current ban wave. I am currently running several brand new xboxs on live! These xboxs are in various configs. All are running ixtreme 1.61

<+c4eva> One is running original discs, another is running on xbl (no discs) , another is running a backup from my region!

<+c4eva> until tests are completed, no eta on liteon fw!