Boncuk
New Member
Hi All,
here is what I have experienced during the last two months:
First, my mainboard said "Good bye, cruel world", which caused me to purchase a new one.
After I had installed it Windows claimed "Due to hardware changes windows has to be registered again. This version will be valid for three days."
I did it using the internet and got a big surprise: The boot drive had been moved from HDD 'C' to HDD 'H', killing about 50% of the installed software. (no more entries in the "new" registry).
After reinstalling the software everything worked alright for another 1 1/2 months until the BIOS of the new board decided not to recognize any more SATA-disks. Additionally it recognized the primary IDE master and slave drives pointing to the slave drive as primary boot device - resulting in zero boot abilities.
Once again I replaced the mainboard using exactly the same type.
Another surprise caught me when powering up the system: Windows again claimed "Due to considerable hardware changes windows has to be registered" leaving two options - either using telephone or internet. This time registering had to be done immediately - otherwise the OS won't load.
I chose internet, but got stuck helplessly because windows refused to load the driver for my wireless internet modem. Using telephone registering is a real PITA. One mistype of one of the 42 digits and you'll have to restart the "game".
If you finally have managed to pass all 42 digits via telephone line you receive a respond code constisting of 42 digits as well, spoken at a speed a cashier at a supermarket will be able to follow (if she or he is well trained).
The biggest surprise of all: Windows has decided to make drive 'C' the boot drive again leaving lots of orphants on drive 'H'.
Has anyone of you experienced the same BS?
here is what I have experienced during the last two months:
First, my mainboard said "Good bye, cruel world", which caused me to purchase a new one.
After I had installed it Windows claimed "Due to hardware changes windows has to be registered again. This version will be valid for three days."
I did it using the internet and got a big surprise: The boot drive had been moved from HDD 'C' to HDD 'H', killing about 50% of the installed software. (no more entries in the "new" registry).
After reinstalling the software everything worked alright for another 1 1/2 months until the BIOS of the new board decided not to recognize any more SATA-disks. Additionally it recognized the primary IDE master and slave drives pointing to the slave drive as primary boot device - resulting in zero boot abilities.
Once again I replaced the mainboard using exactly the same type.
Another surprise caught me when powering up the system: Windows again claimed "Due to considerable hardware changes windows has to be registered" leaving two options - either using telephone or internet. This time registering had to be done immediately - otherwise the OS won't load.
I chose internet, but got stuck helplessly because windows refused to load the driver for my wireless internet modem. Using telephone registering is a real PITA. One mistype of one of the 42 digits and you'll have to restart the "game".
If you finally have managed to pass all 42 digits via telephone line you receive a respond code constisting of 42 digits as well, spoken at a speed a cashier at a supermarket will be able to follow (if she or he is well trained).
The biggest surprise of all: Windows has decided to make drive 'C' the boot drive again leaving lots of orphants on drive 'H'.
Has anyone of you experienced the same BS?