Greetings,

Vista OEM ultimate owner with my new pc.

Believe it or not, things are going pretty ok (only pretty ok, still very
unstable).

Anyway I installed all the hardware and software and activated as
instructed.

Today I was offered the latest Sata nforce 4 drivers, so accepted and
installed it. Suddenly microsoft said I had new hardware (go figure) and to
re-activate my OEM version of Vista Ultimate.

This is very poor, nothing has changed, but yet am treated like I'm a
criminal to re-validate my purchased licence.

Can someone explain to me why this is happening, as if microsoft keep
offering updates (as appreciative as I am), I think having to reactivate it
on these basis is absurd.

While I'm at it, a friend of mine how also bought a PC from the same company
with same OS wants to know that if he reformats his hdd due to virus attack,
will he be penalised because of the repartitiion of the same hardware etc
etc?

smithy

smithy wrote:[color=blue]
> Greetings,
>
> Vista OEM ultimate owner with my new pc.
>
> Believe it or not, things are going pretty ok (only pretty ok, still
> very unstable).
>
> Anyway I installed all the hardware and software and activated as
> instructed.
>
> Today I was offered the latest Sata nforce 4 drivers, so accepted and
> installed it. Suddenly microsoft said I had new hardware (go figure)
> and to re-activate my OEM version of Vista Ultimate.
>
> This is very poor, nothing has changed, but yet am treated like I'm a
> criminal to re-validate my purchased licence.
>
> Can someone explain to me why this is happening, as if microsoft keep
> offering updates (as appreciative as I am), I think having to reactivate
> it on these basis is absurd.
>
> While I'm at it, a friend of mine how also bought a PC from the same
> company with same OS wants to know that if he reformats his hdd due to
> virus attack, will he be penalised because of the repartitiion of the
> same hardware etc etc?
>
> smithy[/color]

And I thought activation was a hassle with XP ...

Alias

"smithy" wrote:
[color=blue]
> Greetings,
>
> Vista OEM ultimate owner with my new pc.
>
> Believe it or not, things are going pretty ok (only pretty ok, still very
> unstable).
>
> Anyway I installed all the hardware and software and activated as
> instructed.
>
> Today I was offered the latest Sata nforce 4 drivers, so accepted and
> installed it. Suddenly microsoft said I had new hardware (go figure) and to
> re-activate my OEM version of Vista Ultimate.
>
> This is very poor, nothing has changed, but yet am treated like I'm a
> criminal to re-validate my purchased licence.
>
> Can someone explain to me why this is happening, as if microsoft keep
> offering updates (as appreciative as I am), I think having to reactivate it
> on these basis is absurd.
>
> While I'm at it, a friend of mine how also bought a PC from the same company
> with same OS wants to know that if he reformats his hdd due to virus attack,
> will he be penalised because of the repartitiion of the same hardware etc
> etc?
>
> smithy
>[/color]

Aaaaah so that's it. I installed that a few days ago and it told me to
reactivate too, but the icon on the system tray rarely appears to tell me to
reactivate, and I keep missing it so I have no idea what phone number to ring
to get a valid license.

This is absurd is all fairness, being told to reactivate just before of a
driver update? And now i have no idea what to do or who to ring or anything!

VERY annoying!!!!! The phone services are down at weekends and today (sunday)
is my last day to activate.

HOWEVER - I have now reactivated my copy. When it asks for you to reactivate
you need to choose 'automated phone activation' You then type in your code
and then you get asked a load of questions. Just answer truthfully that you
have not changed your hardware and that this copy of Windows is only
installed on the one machine and you get a new code you type in and it
reactivates your copy

This is a known problem and Microsoft has been made aware of the problem.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"smithy" <me@com.au> wrote in message
news:44579E4D-8767-4111-ABC6-929933E21DCC@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> Greetings,
>
> Vista OEM ultimate owner with my new pc.
>
> Believe it or not, things are going pretty ok (only pretty ok, still very
> unstable).
>
> Anyway I installed all the hardware and software and activated as
> instructed.
>
> Today I was offered the latest Sata nforce 4 drivers, so accepted and
> installed it. Suddenly microsoft said I had new hardware (go figure) and
> to re-activate my OEM version of Vista Ultimate.
>
> This is very poor, nothing has changed, but yet am treated like I'm a
> criminal to re-validate my purchased licence.
>
> Can someone explain to me why this is happening, as if microsoft keep
> offering updates (as appreciative as I am), I think having to reactivate
> it on these basis is absurd.
>
> While I'm at it, a friend of mine how also bought a PC from the same
> company with same OS wants to know that if he reformats his hdd due to
> virus attack, will he be penalised because of the repartitiion of the same
> hardware etc etc?
>
> smithy[/color]

"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS********.com> wrote in message
news:OljvrWumHHA.4516@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> This is a known problem and Microsoft has been made aware of the problem.
>[/color]

This is a known problem and Microsoft created the problem. Why would they
need to be "made aware?"
--
=======================================
"There won't be -anything- we won't say to people to try and convince
them that our way is the way to go."
-- Bill Gates on Microsoft marketing
=======================================

Bye John.

--


Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"john" <john@msn.com> wrote in message
news:O5aUfhumHHA.3704@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS********.com> wrote in message
> news:OljvrWumHHA.4516@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=green]
>> This is a known problem and Microsoft has been made aware of the problem.
>>[/color]
>
> This is a known problem and Microsoft created the problem. Why would they
> need to be "made aware?"
> --
> =======================================
> "There won't be -anything- we won't say to people to try and convince
> them that our way is the way to go."
> -- Bill Gates on Microsoft marketing
> =======================================
>
>
>
>[/color]

"WBurchnall" wrote:
[color=blue]
>
> Kiel,
>
> Microsoft Activation Support on Sundays are open from I believe 6:00am
> - 3:00pm pst or in other works 9:00am - 6:00pm est.
>
> I tried calling them just now to double check they are open today on
> Sunday. The best way to get the phone number for activation is one
> simple command line:
>
> slui 4
>
> Type that into your start search. It will bring up the windows
> activation wizard to the fourth option (phone activation). It will ask
> you for your country, select us or canada or uk or wherever else you may
> reside. Hit 'Next'. This will provide you with your installation id and
> the phone number. Call the phone number, said 'Yes' to the first
> prompt, enter your 40 digits.
>
> You'll get connected to a rep, he'll ask you again for the first six
> digits to confirm they received your numbers correctly. You'll tell him
> if you bought it from a retail store and that you reinstalled/had a
> hardware change. After that, your done.
>
> Its really fairly fast easy and simple. Im not sure if it is
> Microsofts fault that updating your drivers caused your motherboard's
> hardware id to change to a hardware id that indicates a different
> revision, right? Since to windows activation that makes it look like you
> took out your old motherboard and put in a brand new motherboard
> slightly newer.
>
> Yes, it sucks and the driver should have been properly made before it
> having been released on Windows Update maybe, but ms didn't make the
> driver afaik? Hopefully your mobo company will in the future make
> drivers that don't change your hardware id.
>
>
> --
> WBurchnall
> Second Re-register for me was caused by change in SLI video cards driver. Very strange indeed, somewhat irritating but not too painful after the first cussword. BTW, today when i came to visit, Vista Home Premium 64-bit (32-bit version of IE) would not sign in, so used Firefox to sign-in and open the door. Betcha Brother Bill would groan at [u]that[/u] one. hahahaha.[/color]

"Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS********.com> wrote in message
news:OljvrWumHHA.4516@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...[color=blue]
> This is a known problem and Microsoft has been made aware of the problem.
>[/color]


Vista is what it is - until Microsoft says that it isn't