New DVD drive and XP Activation
29 August 2003, 04:36 PM
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Finally got my new DVD writer to replace my 1x drive. Did a straight swap and it works perfect. Only thing is that XP is saying that due to the significant hardware change I need to re-activate my copy of windows. Is this normal? Or could it be a virus?
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29 August 2003, 07:50 PM
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Did it let you re-activate online? Mine kept saying its already registered foobar off! Had to call some bint up in the end and it probably cost a load!
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29 August 2003, 09:05 PM
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yeah i had to call microsoft too - when i went to reactivate it it said that i had reactivated too many times for the license that i had - which is bulls4it. Phone microsoft and they gave me another code to type in.
Apparently Windows XP gets all paranoid when you put new hardware in - it thinks that it's been transferred to another PC - well thats what MS told me.
Apparently Windows XP gets all paranoid when you put new hardware in - it thinks that it's been transferred to another PC - well thats what MS told me.
29 August 2003, 09:22 PM
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XP takes a digital signature from specific hardware installed in the PC. I do not know which items it checks, but am certain someone else on here will.
29 August 2003, 10:58 PM
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