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Steve
I recently upgraded the motherboard in an HP with an MSI board and now
when Windows XP Home Edition SP1 comes up it says that this copy of
Windows needs to be activated. I figured this might happen based on
the hardware changes. When I click "yes" to activate it, it says,
"Windows is already activated".
I've booted to safe mode and deleted the wpa.dbl. There was no
wpa.bak file. After a reboot, it does the same thing.
I tried another approach to change one of the values in the registry
as suggested here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328874
with no luck. The problem is I can only boot to safe mode since it
says it needs to be registered, it won't let me logon normally. I
can't run MSOOBE.EXE /a in safe mode. It gives me a message saying
Activation can't be run in safe mode.
Everything I've run across on the web says to do one of these two
things. Anyone know how to deactivate windows so I get the activation
screen to come up so I can reactivate it? It's a legit copy of
Windows XP as it has the authentication sticker on the side of the
case.
Anyone got any other ideas? A reinstall is a last resort.
Thanks,
Steve
when Windows XP Home Edition SP1 comes up it says that this copy of
Windows needs to be activated. I figured this might happen based on
the hardware changes. When I click "yes" to activate it, it says,
"Windows is already activated".
I've booted to safe mode and deleted the wpa.dbl. There was no
wpa.bak file. After a reboot, it does the same thing.
I tried another approach to change one of the values in the registry
as suggested here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/328874
with no luck. The problem is I can only boot to safe mode since it
says it needs to be registered, it won't let me logon normally. I
can't run MSOOBE.EXE /a in safe mode. It gives me a message saying
Activation can't be run in safe mode.
Everything I've run across on the web says to do one of these two
things. Anyone know how to deactivate windows so I get the activation
screen to come up so I can reactivate it? It's a legit copy of
Windows XP as it has the authentication sticker on the side of the
case.
Anyone got any other ideas? A reinstall is a last resort.
Thanks,
Steve