Re: activation issue

From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_Nospam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 11/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:54:29 -0700

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"Captain James T. Kirk" <CaptainJamesTKirk@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote 
in message news:383379EC-5CFD-40C6-A4F2-943C15D7F8F1@microsoft.com...
| recently i had to reformat and reinstall xp home. due to problems with
| crashes and also a issue with the activation. 3 weeks ago i had the mb
| swapped out in a new system i had built because the original dell fried 
the
| mb. it was cheaper to have a new system built. they used what components 
were
| useable from the dell. since it was a new system they went ahead and
| reformatted and reinstalled windows for me. they also axctivated it for me 
as
| well. before i jus redone the reinstall, 4 days ago i was experiencing 
some
| crashes and a popup asking me to activate. i hit it and it said i was 
already
| activated. so when the count got down to 3 days and some more crashes i
| decided to reformat and reinstall myself. all was as it should be. the 30 
day
| countdown popup and all. i installed most of my software and was getting 
the
| windows updates. when i was done with the last 4 critical/high priority
| updates i rebooted and i got a popup saying windows was activated. i never
| went through the activation procedure. and i still get the countdown popup
| asking me to activate. and when i hit it it tells me its already 
activated.
| so whats up with that? and when i did the reinstall, it never asked me for
| the windows key. and i have found out that the windows key and the pid
| numbers have changed. they are not the ones that were originally there. 
whats
| up with that too? so why is it still giving me the popup countdown for
| activation and saying its already activated when  i hit it? anyone know? i
| cant get ms to help me since this os disk came with my dell, which is now 
no
| longer. this didnt happen on the other mb they had installed in this new
| system. they had to swap it out cause i found out it was the wrong board. 
no
| support for the p4 800fsb. they got me a intel d865perl board which 
supported
| the 800 fsb. and thats when this activation thing occured 3 weeks after 
they
| had swapped out the board. so the questions are, why is it now giving me 
the
| activation popups and it is already activated, and why are my windows key 
and
| pid number changed?

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