reactivate significant hardware change

[Martha]

Since I had to reformat a couple of months ago, I have not been able to fix
a problem with WinXP where every few weeks, upon booting, it says a
significant hardware change has taken place & I only have 3 days to
reactivate XP.

It usually is my ethernet card and a PCI something or other that quit
working--sometimes the DVD player quits with them. I have no idea why they
do that because when I reboot later on or the next day, they straighten
themselves out, but I get irked that I have to deal with MS everytime that
happens.

What would happen if I couldn't reactivate in 3 days because I couldn't get
back online? Would I lose my authenticate WinXP software? (If anyone has a
suggestion for those hardwares refusing to work for a while, please advise.

 

[kurttrail]

Since I had to reformat a couple of months ago, I have not been able
to fix a problem with WinXP where every few weeks, upon booting, it
says a significant hardware change has taken place & I only have 3
days to reactivate XP.

It usually is my ethernet card and a PCI something or other that quit
working--sometimes the DVD player quits with them. I have no idea
why they do that because when I reboot later on or the next day, they
straighten themselves out, but I get irked that I have to deal with
MS everytime that happens.

What would happen if I couldn't reactivate in 3 days because I
couldn't get back online? Would I lose my authenticate WinXP
software? (If anyone has a suggestion for those hardwares refusing
to work for a while, please advise.

You would have to start up in safe mode and do phone activation. You
should try using chkdisk to see if you have any disk errors. The other
problem is that you wpa.dbl file is just getting corrupted. Do you have
the latest chipset drivers for your mobo? If not, download them and
install.

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[zzizith]

I did a search for my motherboard: Azza 366A-AV and I can't find much,
especially a place for chipsets. I still have the motherboard's CD
that came with the PC. Would that be the place to look? What is a
chipset? Some newer drivers for the motherboard? How do I install
them if I can find them?

Where can I find them please?
zmartha

 

[zzizith]

I did a search for my motherboard: Azza 366A-AV and I can't find much,
especially a place for chipsets. I still have the motherboard's CD
that came with the PC. Would that be the place to look? What is a
chipset? Some newer drivers for the motherboard? How do I install
them if I can find them?

Where can I find them please?

 

[Bob I]

www.ggogle.com came up with this

http://www.motherboard.cz/driver/azza.htm

 

[zMartha]

I looked at that page; the Azza stuff are inactive hyperlinks. Is a chipset
a driver?
Bob I wrote:
|| www.ggogle.com came up with this
||
|| http://www.motherboard.cz/driver/azza.htm
||
|| zmartha wrote:
||
||| I did a search for my motherboard: Azza 366A-AV and I can't find
||| much, especially a place for chipsets. I still have the
||| motherboard's CD that came with the PC. Would that be the place to
||| look? What is a chipset? Some newer drivers for the motherboard?
||| How do I install them if I can find them?
|||
||| Where can I find them please?
||| zmartha

 

[kurttrail]

I did a search for my motherboard: Azza 366A-AV and I can't find
much, especially a place for chipsets. I still have the
motherboard's CD that came with the PC. Would that be the place to
look? What is a chipset? Some newer drivers for the motherboard?
How do I install them if I can find them?

Where can I find them please?
zmartha

RTFM.

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[Lil' Dave]

A chipset is physical hardware. You can see/touch/sometimes hear hardware
with your own senses.
A driver is software that tells the OS how to use the hardware.

 

[dude111115]

Hey dude, i had this problem just now, and it took me all of about 6 minutes to fix. heres my story. i had 2 computers. 1 made in 2002-2003, and one in early 2005. the crappy older 1 had 256MB of RAM, a 40GB hard drive, and a 1.8GHZ processor. the better newer one, had 1GB ( 2 sticks of 512, one i added myself ), a 160GB hard drive, another 40gb hard drive from my brothers broken computer ( my 13 yr old twin, mom got us both the same crappy ass computers ), and a 2.0 Ghz processor. i took 1 512 mb card out of the good pc and swapped it into the empty slot of the crappy one, and bam. started, it worked. that activate windows thing came up, and i freaked. the only way it will actually activate is if you find their link to get this one validation tool, Windows XP Validation Advisor Beta , it is the only thing that recognizes it as a real copy of windows and not a fake. hope you guys got some help from this. IM A THIRTEEN YEAR OLD COMPUTER GENIUS THAT REWIRED 3 LAPTOPS AND A DESKTOP MOTHERBOARDS INTO EACH OTHER TO HAVE A COMPUTER WITH 10GB OF RAM, 7GHZ processor, AND A 6 TB HARD DRIVE!!! AWESOME! NO IDEA HOW TO PUT IT IN A DECENT COMPUTER CASE THOUGH!lol.

Since I had to reformat a couple of months ago, I have not been able to fix
a problem with WinXP where every few weeks, upon booting, it says a
significant hardware change has taken place & I only have 3 days to
reactivate XP.

It usually is my ethernet card and a PCI something or other that quit
working--sometimes the DVD player quits with them. I have no idea why they
do that because when I reboot later on or the next day, they straighten
themselves out, but I get irked that I have to deal with MS everytime that
happens.

What would happen if I couldn't reactivate in 3 days because I couldn't get
back online? Would I lose my authenticate WinXP software? (If anyone has a
suggestion for those hardwares refusing to work for a while, please advise.

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Mrs Martha Krueger