"racesurg" <racesurg@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:93625B99-BCF4-40F6-8C47-4BAC3198AA38@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
>I have an MSI S420 Core2Duo 1.83Ghz laptop w/ 1gig DDR2, 80gig SATA HDD,
>ATI
> Radeon Xpress 200M, and originally came w/ XP Home Premium. I updated it
> to
> Vista Ultimate and activated it online, only to find out that I would
> trouble
> with the Radeon and the SATA HDD drivers. MSI Tech Support advised me to
> update my BIOS by flashing with newer one on their site so I did. Indeed
> the
> BIOS update corrected my driver problems, and I was also able to update
> drivers thru Windows update. But later I was surprised to receive a notice
> that I have to reactivate Windows because my "hardware has changed". I
> tried
> reactivating online and was really troubled when a window appeared telling
> me
> that my product key is already in use. Whoa! What's the best way to
> proceed
> with this problem. I certainly do not want to spend another small fortune
> for
> a new product key. Thanks.[/color]

Interesting. Where did you get your computer from?

ss.