Activation of windows after a motherboard change.

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allan

Own and original copy of Windows XP Home edition. Recently
had to change the motherboard. try to reactivate and the
Product Key has been blacklisted why is this and why does
microsoft have the power to tell the end user when and how
to change the motherboard and to get a new copy of XP.
 
G

Guest

are you sure it is blacklisted

If you change certain main system components XP requires you to call an 800 number to get a reactivation code

I had to do it when I upgraded my system and it was pretty painless. Supid but painless

If that is all the problem is then where you activate it it should give you an option to activate it via phone and the number to call.
 
D

Dave Navarro

are you sure it is blacklisted?

If you change certain main system components XP requires you to call an 800 number to get a reactivation code.

I had to do it when I upgraded my system and it was pretty painless. Supid but painless!

If that is all the problem is then where you activate it it should give you an option to activate it via phone and the number to call.

I tend to call that number every other month and make them go through
the process even if I don't upgrade anything.

I actually had someone notice that I'd been upgrading my computer every
couple of months and I explained that I'm a game programmer (I'm not).
He just said "OH" and gave me the activation info.

--Dave
 
O

Opinicus

Own and original copy of Windows XP Home edition. Recently
had to change the motherboard. try to reactivate and the
Product Key has been blacklisted

How many times have you tried to reactivate and how long had
it been since the previous time you activated?

MS doesn't "have the power to tell the end user when and how
to change the motherboard". Many people in this and other
WinXP newsgroups have replaced mobos without much if any
difficulty. Some of them (me for example) did it with an OEM
version of WinXP and the activation went off without a
hitch.

There are other issues involved in your problem.
 
K

kurttrail

allan said:
Own and original copy of Windows XP Home edition. Recently
had to change the motherboard. try to reactivate and the
Product Key has been blacklisted why is this and why does
microsoft have the power to tell the end user when and how
to change the motherboard and to get a new copy of XP.

MS purposefully wrote that message to trick the unsuspecting consumer into
buying another copy. That's what happens when a company is monopoly,
outside of the checks and balances of a competitive market.

Choose the option to activate by phone.

Copy-protection is an anti-consumer technology, and the best way for
consumers to combat the greedy technologies of the corporate copyright
elite, is to stop buying all copy-protected products!

--
Peace!
Kurt
Self-anointed Moderator
microscum.pubic.windowsexp.gonorrhea
http://microscum.com
"Trustworthy Computing" is only another example of an Oxymoron!
"Produkt-Aktivierung macht frei!"
 
R

Ron Martell

allan said:
Own and original copy of Windows XP Home edition. Recently
had to change the motherboard. try to reactivate and the
Product Key has been blacklisted why is this and why does
microsoft have the power to tell the end user when and how
to change the motherboard and to get a new copy of XP.

What exactly happened to tell you that your product key had been
"blacklisted"?

Is your XP Home edtion a retail version (came in a green Microsoft
box) or is it an OEM version, such as one that came bundled with a new
computer?

Was the motherboard you installed identical to the previous one? If
not did you do a Repair Install of your XP Home as per the
instructions at http://michaelstevenstech.com/XPrepairinstall.htm ?

That is almost always necessary if the replacement motherboard is not
identical to the previous one, or very nearly so.

Good luck



Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

"The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much."
 

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