Windows Activation???

[Ian]

I have recently bought a new Motherboard for my PC as I
want an AGP slot.
Yesterday I installed the new Motherboard. Everything
went ok, windows loaded and everything. Then it went to
the User account selection screen as usual but when I
chose the account to log on the following message was
displayed "Before you log on to windows you must activate
windows with microsoft" So I chose to do so thinking this
was a bit strange considering I have been running XP on
my old Motherboard for over a year. Then a white screen
came up with the heading "Windows Activation" and a logo
of some keys but this screen didn't do anything else.

Maybe I need to insert the windows xp disk but that would
be a problem as I don't have one. Windows was on my
system when I bought it.

Can you help this is driving me up the wall!!

My System (currently)

AMD Athlon XP 1.4GHz
256 SDRAM
MATX MSI 6378-Motherboard
Windows XP Home Edition.

The Motherboard I am trying to install is a Asrock K7VM2
MATX. Along with some DDR RAM

 

[jel183 \(UK\)]

I have recently bought a new Motherboard for my PC as I
want an AGP slot.
Yesterday I installed the new Motherboard. Everything
went ok, windows loaded and everything. Then it went to
the User account selection screen as usual but when I
chose the account to log on the following message was
displayed "Before you log on to windows you must activate
windows with microsoft" So I chose to do so thinking this
was a bit strange considering I have been running XP on
my old Motherboard for over a year. Then a white screen
came up with the heading "Windows Activation" and a logo
of some keys but this screen didn't do anything else.

Maybe I need to insert the windows xp disk but that would
be a problem as I don't have one. Windows was on my
system when I bought it.

Can you help this is driving me up the wall!!

My System (currently)

AMD Athlon XP 1.4GHz
256 SDRAM
MATX MSI 6378-Motherboard
Windows XP Home Edition.

The Motherboard I am trying to install is a Asrock K7VM2
MATX. Along with some DDR RAM

This might help:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;314935&Product=winxp

 

[Willit]

If you can get in you can run this :

http://ryan.ript.net/xppid/

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have recently bought a new Motherboard for my PC as I
want an AGP slot.
Yesterday I installed the new Motherboard. Everything
went ok, windows loaded and everything. Then it went to
the User account selection screen as usual but when I
chose the account to log on the following message was
displayed "Before you log on to windows you must activate
windows with microsoft" So I chose to do so thinking this
was a bit strange considering I have been running XP on
my old Motherboard for over a year. Then a white screen
came up with the heading "Windows Activation" and a logo
of some keys but this screen didn't do anything else.

Changing a motherboard - and most probably CPU, quite probably having
more RAM - and the video card as you have done will make so many changes
that it is seen as a new machine. You will have to reactivate it. (see
www.aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm for more).

If you did not do a reinstallation of Windows you should do at least a
repair reinstall - it needs to be matched to underlying hardware. Set
the BIOS to boot CD before Hard disk, then boot the XP CD, start Setup
(do not take 'Repair' at this stage), then after the license agreement
take 'Repair Installation'. This will retain your existing software
installations and most settings. But Updates will have to be run again,
especially SP1;

It is important to activate the basic XP Firewall before you ever
connect to the net to get the patches, so as to be protected against
things like the BLAST worm.

You will then be only able to boot into Safe mode until you have
activated, which you will have to do by phoning in. Alternatively you
could decide to do a fresh clean install, when you will have 30 days in
which to activate, and because it is so long since last you did, you
will be able to do it on the net as first time.

For that, You do it after first booting to Safe Mode (F8 as the BIOS
screen goes to black) to back up essential data. Then boot the XP CD
direct. Enter Setup, and after the license agreement take New Install.
When it asks you to confirm where, hit ESC; select and delete the
current partition and make a new RAW one to be formatted at the next
stage

The important point is the delete. Without that it will just go ahead
and make a new install over the top of the old one which will not work
out properly - and would still need reinstalling all

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----


Changing a motherboard - and most probably CPU, quite probably having
more RAM - and the video card as you have done will make so many changes
that it is seen as a new machine. You will have to reactivate it. (see
www.aumha.org/win5/a/wpa.htm for more).

If you did not do a reinstallation of Windows you should do at least a
repair reinstall - it needs to be matched to underlying hardware. Set
the BIOS to boot CD before Hard disk, then boot the XP CD, start Setup
(do not take 'Repair' at this stage), then after the license agreement
take 'Repair Installation'. This will retain your existing software
installations and most settings. But Updates will have to be run again,
especially SP1;

It is important to activate the basic XP Firewall before you ever
connect to the net to get the patches, so as to be protected against
things like the BLAST worm.

You will then be only able to boot into Safe mode until you have
activated, which you will have to do by phoning in. Alternatively you
could decide to do a fresh clean install, when you will have 30 days in
which to activate, and because it is so long since last you did, you
will be able to do it on the net as first time.

For that, You do it after first booting to Safe Mode (F8 as the BIOS
screen goes to black) to back up essential data. Then boot the XP CD
direct. Enter Setup, and after the license agreement take New Install.
When it asks you to confirm where, hit ESC; select and delete the
current partition and make a new RAW one to be formatted at the next
stage

The important point is the delete. Without that it will just go ahead
and make a new install over the top of the old one which will not work
out properly - and would still need reinstalling all


--
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (e-mail address removed)8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)
.
I am keeping the same CPU and the same amount of RAM and

I am not adding the Graphics card until I have completely
set up the Motherboard. And I do not have the Xp disk,
thats the problem.
Some else said it could be the Video resolution? To be
honest I ve not a clue cus' I ve never seen what the
Activation screen is supposed to look like, cus' it was
set-up when I bought my PC.