Dear Carey,
I suspected that the culprit was the last driver I updated, which was ATI
4379 Serial ATA Controller from Silicon Image, which I got thru Windows
Update. Guess what, I unistalled and deleted the driver, and voila!!! I'm
activated again after reboot. Kindly advice tech staff to either delete or
update that driver because it probably made my hardware look really
different. Thanks.

racesurg


"Carey Frisch [MVP]" wrote:
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> You can get started with phone activation by typing "slui.exe 4"
> (w/o the quotes) in the Start Search box in the Start Menu and pressing
> Enter.
> The phone activation process takes about 6 minutes.
>
> --
> Carey Frisch
> Microsoft MVP
> Windows Shell/User
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> "racesurg" wrote:
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> 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.
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