Re-Activation Needed?

[Don R]

Greetings,
I recently installed Quicken 2005 and then connected a cable modem to my computer. I did have to go into the bios settings and turn on the On-board LAN card. These changes triggered a request to reactivate my copy of Windows XP. Nothing else has been changed for several months. These seem like some pretty small changes to trigger a reactivation. Has anyone else had a similar experience?
Thanks, Don

 

[Chuck]

Yes. Usually after SP2 was installed. A quick check if the what has changed
since original install showed that changed items were detected that were not
changed. Certain post XP2 updates seem to also trigger the problem on some
systems.
Fortunately, you can use phone activation to get the required info.

Greetings,
I recently installed Quicken 2005 and then connected a cable modem to my
computer. I did have to go into the bios settings and turn on the On-board
LAN card. These changes triggered a request to reactivate my copy of
Windows XP. Nothing else has been changed for several months. These seem
like some pretty small changes to trigger a reactivation. Has anyone else
had a similar experience?
Thanks, Don

 

[Alex Nichol]

I recently installed Quicken 2005 and then connected a cable modem to my computer. I did have to go into the bios settings and turn on the On-board LAN card. These changes triggered a request to reactivate my copy of Windows XP. Nothing else has been changed for several months. These seem like some pretty small changes to trigger a reactivation. Has anyone else had a similar experience?

A LAN card is a major item in the assessment of activation, and may well
have put things OTT. If it was disabled, then the votes it used to cast
for this being an unchanged machine have gone (short of a total clean
reinstall). See detail at www.aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm

 

[Les Herrman]

Greetings,
I recently installed Quicken 2005 and then connected a cable modem to my computer. I did have to go into the bios settings and turn on the On-board LAN card. These changes triggered a request to reactivate my copy of Windows XP. Nothing else has been changed for several months. These seem like some pretty small changes to trigger a reactivation. Has anyone else had a similar experience?
Thanks, Don

Most of the time activating a NIC or installing one or even changing a
NIC will cause an activation request. Seems that there is a very high
priority placed on the NIC.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Most of the time activating a NIC or installing one or even changing a
NIC will cause an activation request. Seems that there is a very high
priority placed on the NIC.

A NIC that was present at original activation *and* has been present
continuously, carries three time the weight of anything else when the
system assesses the state of things at boot. But if you disable it and
shutdown/reboot with it out of action, these 'votes' get lost - and
stay lost even if you then enable it again
See www.aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm for more detail