Re: Activation

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You need to put a Dell motherboard in there if you want to take the easy way out. That license you have there is BIOS locked.

Mike wrote:
I had to put a new motherboard in a dell computer. Now XP boots to a message box that says "You must activate before you can use. Would you like to activate now?" I select OK and the activation screen comes up and says "Windows is already activated." I just keeps doing this over and over. Any ideas?

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