HWID warning without being banned

08/24/2026 17:09 DetectMe#16
I was shadowbanned in BO7 1 day prior to the MW4 beta on a XBOX PC account.
Once the beta rolled that BO7 shadow turned into a MW4 shadow aswell.

After a couple of hours playing the beta I restarted my PC and got hit with HWID notice. Also another account that never played MW4, got out of shadow ban in BO7 and after refreshing the website it showed MW4 shadow. So their most likely doing anything possible to lock you out of the beta, but that also causes me to get locked out of BO7 aswell.

I'm going to wait until all shadows are cleared and check if the HWID warning goes away
08/24/2026 19:56 Juice304#17
Switched my dTPM to a brand new one just now and reinstalled Windows 11. Still have the same HWID warning.
08/24/2026 20:33 DetectMe#18
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Switched my dTPM to a brand new one just now and reinstalled Windows 11. Still have the same HWID warning.
Are you sure you changed to dTPM on the bios? Have you checked tpm.msc? It must've gone to the default fTPM. Make sure its right
08/24/2026 20:37 Juice304#19
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Are you sure you changed to dTPM on the bios? Have you checked tpm.msc? It must've gone to the default fTPM. Make sure its right
Of course. My fTPM is off in bios and tpm.msc is showing the dTPM as active.
08/24/2026 20:45 DetectMe#20
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Of course. My fTPM is off in bios and tpm.msc is showing the dTPM as active.
That's wierd. I don't think they would go so far to flag something else just during this beta
08/24/2026 21:17 lukedorian#21
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That's wierd. I don't think they would go so far to flag something else just during this beta
You´d be surprised, ofc they won´t announce what their next move will be, that is for sure but i think they are already cracking free FW on DMA, time will tell
08/24/2026 21:22 Juice304#22
I know someone that also uses a dTPM chip and fixed it like this but his method didn't seem to work for me.

"I swapped my dtpm chip and cleaned several times, reset keys, etc and it didn’t work. This morning I hopped on ready to really look into the problem and I was able to play on a new account. But I don’t trust it"
08/25/2026 03:08 DetectMe#23
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I know someone that also uses a dTPM chip and fixed it like this but his method didn't seem to work for me.

"I swapped my dtpm chip and cleaned several times, reset keys, etc and it didn’t work. This morning I hopped on ready to really look into the problem and I was able to play on a new account. But I don’t trust it"
Didn't his shadow get lifted? Only way to know is for someone with the warning get out of the shadowban and see if it goes away... I tried cleaning infinite times, doesn't matter. Maximum I can clean TPM and leave it without "preparing" but of course i'll get failed attestation, but at least I can get into the game. So they're not flagging something else from me, they're only flagging my TPM
08/25/2026 03:11 Juice304#24
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Didn't his shadow get lifted? Only way to know is for someone with the warning get out of the shadowban and see if it goes away... I tried cleaning infinite times, doesn't matter. Maximum I can clean TPM and leave it without "preparing" but of course i'll get failed attestation, but at least I can get into the game. So they're not flagging something else from me, they're only flagging my TPM
He was never shadowed to begin with. That's the weird part. So idk how tied this is to shadow bans.

If anyone has any info or know how to fix it, it'll be greatly appreciated.
08/25/2026 21:55 ZeroGrind#25
Maybe because the game is still in beta so these shadow and hwid bans vary from user to user
08/26/2026 00:11 DetectMe#26
I don't know, I saw a post on twitter that people are able to play older cods but not Warzone and MW4. Maybe they really are just wanting to stop any shadowbanned player from accessing the beta even on another account
08/26/2026 04:08 Juice304#27
Bump because we need to get to the bottom of this. I haven't played since the day before this thread was made.
08/26/2026 13:58 lukedorian#28
The bottom is they already stated that your hwid might be banned ot temp banned and the accounts might be fine, either way you are screwed
08/26/2026 19:23 DetectMe#29
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The bottom is they already stated that your hwid might be banned ot temp banned and the accounts might be fine, either way you are screwed
Yeah guess everyone is just waiting to see if gets lifted when the shadows get lifted too
08/26/2026 19:38 Auxilius#30
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Yeah guess everyone is just waiting to see if gets lifted when the shadows get lifted too
I had two accts sb on my hwid, on day 5 or 6 of being sb, when I played the beta Friday night. I played the beta Friday night on an acct that was not and is still not sb. Saturday morning I had the hw ban message. Both of the sb accts lifted when I checked last night. I launched the game this morning and I’m still getting hw ban message, even with all accounts tied to my hwid showing no ban detected. I’m thinking the hw ban will remain in place until beta is actually concluded next week.

Yes, a full perm spoof/tpm change bypasses it and I can do that right now myself, but more so curious to see when it’ll lift at this point and I’ll just play on another setup in the meantime.