Re: Three Day Activation


"kurttrail" <dontemailme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.
>
> --
> Peace!
> Kurt

I forgot to mention the processor. I upgraded that a few months ago.

You wrote:

> The changes are cumulative; however, if a user is asked to reactivate, the
> hardware profile is reset to that new configuration.

So this means the count starts over from square one and I can dream of
upgrading my ram to 333 and my processor to AMD XP 2800 again without that
pesky YOU'VE GOT THREE DAYS popping up?

What's a "SCSI Adapter"?

Alias


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