Re: Three Day Activation

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Alias wrote:
> "kurttrail" <dontemailme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
> message news:%23UIqT4hNFHA.3984@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Alias wrote:
>>> Well, I decided to install a video card and uninstall my onboard
>>> video card. I also decided to connect my hard drive to the same
>>> place as the CD ROM, making the hard drive the master and the CD
>>> ROM the slave. Doesn't sound like a whole lot had changed. But, lo
>>> and behold, when I have them all installed, I reboot and get the
>>> dreaded three day or you're f*cxked message. Fortunately, I was
>>> able to activate online but why did this happen?
>>
>> Activation changes are cumulative, so if you any change since you
>> last activated the present install on your computer, those would be
>> changes count too.
>
> I changed my NIC card recently and added 128MB of RAM are the only
> other things I've done.

Changing the NIC is counts for a lot towards reactivation.

From: http://www.microsoft.com/piracy/activation_faq.mspx

How does product activation determine tolerance? In other words, how
many components of the PC must change before I am required to
reactivate?
Common changes to hardware such as upgrading a video card, adding a
second hard disk drive, adding RAM or upgrading a CD-ROM device will not
require the system to be reactivated. Specifically, product activation
determines tolerance through a voting mechanism. There are 10 hardware
characteristics used in creating the hardware hash. Each characteristic
is worth one vote, except the network card which is worth three votes.
When thinking of tolerance, it's easiest to think about what has not
changed instead of what has changed. When the current hardware hash is
compared to the original hardware hash, there must be 7 or more matching
points for the two hardware hashes to be considered in tolerance. If the
network card is the same, then only 4 additional characteristics must
match (because the network card is worth 3, for a total of 7). If the
network card is not the same, then a total of 7 characteristics other
than the network card must be the same. If the device is a laptop
(specifically a dockable device), additional tolerance is allotted and
there need be only 4 or more matching points. Therefore, if the device
is dockable and the network card is the same, only one other
characteristic must be the same for a total vote of 4. If the device is
dockable and the network card is not the same, then a total of 4
characteristics other than the network card must be the same.

Are the changes cumulative? In other words, if I change one component
today and one tomorrow, is that two component changes?
The changes are cumulative; however, if a user is asked to reactivate,
the hardware profile is reset to that new configuration.

What are the 10 hardware characteristics used to determine the hardware
hash?
The 10 hardware characteristics used to determine the hardware hash are:

Display Adapter
SCSI Adapter
IDE Adapter
Network Adapter MAC Address
RAM Amount Range (i.e. 0-64mb, 64-128mb, etc),
Processor Type
Processor Serial Number
Hard Drive Device
Hard Drive Volume Serial Number
CD-ROM/CD-RW/DVD-ROM

It looks like you were close, but you still should not have had to
reactivated yet, if Activation was working the way it is supposed to.

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