XP Home and activation question

[Tony Sz.]

I believe I may have found my reason for Windows XP Home now asking me to
reactivate after about 7 months since the intial activation.

When I want to encode movies for DVD use I usually shut down my onboard NIC
in the BIOS and enable my RAID controller for my biggest drive. Then, once
I'm done doing all that mularky I reenable the NIC and disable the RAID
controller for all my usual/basic computing/surfing/emailing. Would this be
why Windows now asks for reactivation? TIA.

 

[Tony Sz.]

It sounds like you have general hardware issues - why do you need to
shutdown the NIC to enable the RAID controller?

I don't, and didn't say I had to disable one for the other.

When I do something cpu intensive, such as capturing or encoding video
files, then I disable my mobo's onboard NIC. I do this so XP isn't always
checking the NIC for activity, etc., and possibly screwing with the encoding
process taking place. When I am encoding I'm using my big IDE drive which
sits on my onboard RAID controller. Hence, I enable the RAID chipset. When
I'm done with all the video stuff I then disable the onboard RAID and
reenable the onboard NIC. I guess I could leave the RAID enabled all the
time, but the NIC I definitely want off when doing video work.....eg:
capturing/encoding/etc... Thanks.

 

[Tony Sz.]

That's the only thing I can think of. I'm going to keep the RAID enabled
from now on and just disable the NIC whenever I need to.
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Tony

If the Activation Wizard activates you again and you do not keep getting the
activation notice on subsequent reboots, then that must be it. If you have
changed other hardware on your computer over the past few months, reenabling
the RAID controller might have been the 'last straw' in hardware changes
that triggered the activation notice.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

If the Activation Wizard activates you again and you do not keep getting the
activation notice on subsequent reboots, then that must be it. If you have
changed other hardware on your computer over the past few months, reenabling
the RAID controller might have been the 'last straw' in hardware changes
that triggered the activation notice.

 

[Mike Brannigan [MSFT]]

I believe I may have found my reason for Windows XP Home now asking me to
reactivate after about 7 months since the intial activation.

When I want to encode movies for DVD use I usually shut down my onboard
NIC
in the BIOS and enable my RAID controller for my biggest drive. Then, once
I'm done doing all that mularky I reenable the NIC and disable the RAID
controller for all my usual/basic computing/surfing/emailing. Would this
be
why Windows now asks for reactivation? TIA.

Tony,

It sounds like you have general hardware issues - why do you need to
shutdown the NIC to enable the RAID controller?

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Mike
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[Tony Sz.]

In short, no Mike. I wish it did though. I rebooted and set everything back
to the "usual", but it still prompted for reactivation. I guess once a the
activation register/bit gets changed in the registry it won't change back
until reactivation.

 

[Michael Pardee]

I learned the hard way that the NIC is 3 points on a ten
point system XP uses to determine whether it is on the
same machine. I had to make the phone call when turned on
my NIC to set up my home network. (Grrr!!) However, if
you ignore the reactivation notice while you do your
quick change, I expect it will quiet down when you
reactivate the NIC.

Mike

-----Original Message-----
I believe I may have found my reason for Windows XP Home now asking me to
reactivate after about 7 months since the intial activation.

When I want to encode movies for DVD use I usually shut down my onboard NIC
in the BIOS and enable my RAID controller for my biggest drive. Then, once
I'm done doing all that mularky I reenable the NIC and disable the RAID
controller for all my usual/basic

computing/surfing/emailing. Would this be