Re: Re-activation With New Hardware

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I've never used that board but loooking at the specs it uses a Promise RAID
controller. The setup should be pretty straightforward. As long as you had
the latest drivers it is unlikely that the RAID setup was the cause of your
problems. Many motherboards of that age had problems with bad capacitors
which could be causing your problems. Here's a link that shows what to look
for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_Plague

Don't worry about calling me Kelly. It happens all the time.

--
Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User

Andrew Lee wrote:
I'm sorry to call you "Kelly". I guess this is what happens when I
try to read to fast.

The motherboard is ASUS P4C800 Deluxe. It supports 4 EIDE drives
(which I have already filled), two RAID pairs (1 pair SATA's and 1
pair PATA's), and 2 SATA drives. Currently my RAID0 configuration is
comprised of two SATA drives.

Andrew



"Kerry Brown" wrote:

When you have to activate the person on the other end has no idea
what you changed. As I said before I have never had a problem with
phoning for activation and have done it many times. They will
usually ask you if this copy of Windows is installed on morte than
one computer. That is usually the extent of their questions. Very
occasionally they will ask for more details. Technically you do not
have to give them more details but as you have done nothing outside
the EULA it will make things easier if you just explain what you
have done.

What motherboard do you have? I have had some similar problems with
motherboards that have two different SATA controllers on them. It
can be very confusing getting the right drivers and setting the
right options in the BIOS.

--
Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User


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