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smithy
Greetings,
Vista OEM ultimate owner with my new pc.
Believe it or not, things are going pretty ok (only pretty ok, still very
unstable).
Anyway I installed all the hardware and software and activated as
instructed.
Today I was offered the latest Sata nforce 4 drivers, so accepted and
installed it. Suddenly microsoft said I had new hardware (go figure) and to
re-activate my OEM version of Vista Ultimate.
This is very poor, nothing has changed, but yet am treated like I'm a
criminal to re-validate my purchased licence.
Can someone explain to me why this is happening, as if microsoft keep
offering updates (as appreciative as I am), I think having to reactivate it
on these basis is absurd.
While I'm at it, a friend of mine how also bought a PC from the same company
with same OS wants to know that if he reformats his hdd due to virus attack,
will he be penalised because of the repartitiion of the same hardware etc
etc?
smithy
Vista OEM ultimate owner with my new pc.
Believe it or not, things are going pretty ok (only pretty ok, still very
unstable).
Anyway I installed all the hardware and software and activated as
instructed.
Today I was offered the latest Sata nforce 4 drivers, so accepted and
installed it. Suddenly microsoft said I had new hardware (go figure) and to
re-activate my OEM version of Vista Ultimate.
This is very poor, nothing has changed, but yet am treated like I'm a
criminal to re-validate my purchased licence.
Can someone explain to me why this is happening, as if microsoft keep
offering updates (as appreciative as I am), I think having to reactivate it
on these basis is absurd.
While I'm at it, a friend of mine how also bought a PC from the same company
with same OS wants to know that if he reformats his hdd due to virus attack,
will he be penalised because of the repartitiion of the same hardware etc
etc?
smithy